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Gifted students shine when mined

High-potential students in Hartford, Connecticut show real promise when presented with educational opportunities at a recently opened academy.

One person manufactures success by helping to feed the world's hungry

Her nonprofit Edesia produces Plumpy'nut, a nutritious paste rich in calories and vitamins.

Top 10 highest paid authors of 2011

Forbes has just released their 2011 list of the world's highest paid authors (based on earnings from May 2010 to April 2011), and some of them may surprise you. We'll tell you how much each author made, why you should know their names, and how they beat the recession's effect on the fiction industry.

Egypt shark attack: suspects caught

Egypt shark attack: Sharks attacked tourists on Tuesday and then again the day after, maiming three Russians and a Ukrainian tourist according to the Russian embassy.

America's new drug of choice: revenge

Capital punishment is vengeance masquerading as justice. No matter how heinous the crime, we lose our moral highground when we allow killing as a punishment for murder.

Bath with a bovine view

The claw-foot tub looks out on the cow yard and barn.

School reform: It's not about left or right

American and British public schools feel pushed towards more choice, charters, vouchers, standards, incentive pay, and other reforms. Teacher unions push back. What happens to the kids?

Cathy Guisewite to end 'Cathy' comic strip after 34 years

Cathy Guisewite will end 'Cathy,' which has chronicled the life, frustrations and swimsuit season meltdowns of its namesake for more than 30 years.

College graduation to go green with eco-friendly caps and gowns

A small but growing number of colleges are going green by offering eco-friendly caps and gowns for college graduation.

The White Ribbon: movie review

With harrowing echoes of ‘The Crucible,’ ‘The White Ribbon’ details the dark, unexplained happenings in a German village before World War I.

Dogtown

The strange history of an abandoned colonial settlement-turned-wilderness.

Senate OK's David Hamilton to be US appeals court judge

Judge David Hamilton is elevated to the US appeals court, after GOP effort to stall a vote failed. Republican resistance signals more political fights are likely over Obama's nominees to the federal bench.

Homer & Langley

History accumulates in E.L. Doctorow’s novel about the Collyer brothers.

Out of work? This week's most intriguing job offers

Are climate-change deniers guilty of treason?

Across Middle East, a sense of possibility after Obama speech

While they expect action, many warmed to words that bespoke a knowledge and appreciation of Islamic culture.

American Heroes

One of our most thorough historians reexamines some early American icons.

Colleges offer no-frills degrees

A less-expensive education is the appeal at stripped-down satellite campuses.

Reviews of "I See You Everywhere" and "The Flying Troutmans"

Two new novels center on the complex, competitive love between sisters.

Barack who? Arabs weigh in.

Senator Obama is an unknown quantity as he tours the Middle East.

The bin Ladens: a family history

Pulitzer Prize winner Steve Coll's portrait of the bin Ladens, a family torn between Islam and the West.