In the early 70s, English professors at the University of Michigan wanted it to allow "black English" as an acceptable form of academic communication. Invited to help develop the proposal, I deplored the idea. I said that blacks allowed to use "black ...

Classic rock legends Fleetwood Mac and The Eagles are planning a summer tour that would bring the two 1970's rock legends together to play a series of concerts in football and baseball stadiums. It is not clear whether the Eagles or Fleetwood Mac would...

Ah, Christmas. It´s a great time of year. It gets its name from the one who was born at this time - Christ, the boy child, Jesus. Christians know this, as do folks of all other faiths. As the Son of God, Jesus brought forgiveness and the feelings that ...

At the Thomas Indian School in Irving, 30 miles south of Buffalo, children from Native American families were systematically stripped of their native culture and heritage, and sometimes abused, for nearly a century. The school closed in 1957....

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today ordered that a preliminary injunction be granted to tribal plaintiffs that halts the expansion of the Cortez gold mine in Nevada owned by Barrick Gold Corporation, a Canadian company based in

Have a non-emergency question about your pet's health? Dr. Heather Oxford of L.A. veterinary hospital California Animal Rehabilitation (CARE) is here to help! In this installment of Ask a Vet, Dr. Oxford tackles canine nutrition -- and a commonly found

It all began less than two years earlier at the Queen's Hotel in Toronto. There, in December 1863, Dr. Luke P. Blackburn -- a well respected Kentucky physician and known Confederate agent -- recruited a southern sympathizer, Godfrey Hyams, to help carry out

Google doesn't just track everything there is, it's able to track things that imminently won't exist. A bunch of computational biologists working on ways to map endangered ecologies to find critical species thought "Hell, Google can do everything else" -

A cheeky squirrel in Alberta's Banff National Park has gone viral after stealing the spotlight in a tourist's photo. Melissa Brandts, who was visiting from Minnesota, had set up her camera on a tripod to capture her and her husband, Jackson,

Swine can get the flu - from you. Hogwash, you say? State and county fairs in North Carolina and Virginia aren't taking any chances. Each will limit people-to-piggy contact. The H1N1 pandemic - the swine flu - fanned the worry. "The concern