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Communist Party General Secretary Jiang Zemin's scheduled visit to Washington, D.C., this fall will be the first time a Chinese head of state has come to the White House since [...]

If Superintendent Peter Horoschak had his way, most of the sixth graders who entered the middle school in Maplewood, N.J., this month would truly be on the same page. Last [...]

From the infamous Dutch tulip hysteria of the 17th century to the Great Depression to the dot-com crash, wild bouts of speculation have occasionally inflated big fat financial bubbles that [...]

Earlier this year, the Bush administration requested $1.3 billion, or a first installment, for the ''Millennium Challenge Account,'' the president's plan to increase foreign aid to unprecedented levels. When combined [...]

Last month, a quartet of academics published ''What's Wrong With the Rorschach?'' -- attacking a test administered to more than a million people worldwide each year. According to recent surveys [...]

Mathematics is one academic subject that would seem to reside in a world of universality, protected from competing opinions by the objectivity of its laws. But the real universal law [...]

Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's ''Nutcracker'' will be performed on stages from small towns to the New York City Ballet this month -- and in ''literally hundreds of productions around the world,'' [...]

The United American Indians of New England are preparing for their 33rd annual ''National Day of Mourning'' near Plymouth Rock this week. Hundreds are expected to protest on Thanksgiving, according [...]

The recent cases of Michael Kopper, the Enron book-cooker, and John Walker Lindh, the Taliban fellow-traveler, both ended with a practice that, according to Stephen Schulhofer, an N.Y.U. law professor, [...]

Place you virtual bets. By the year 2000, according to conservative estimates, online gambling will be an $8-$10 billion business. About 20 sites already offer live, online betting on casino [...]

IN JULY OF 1997, A STRANGE CASE walked through the door of Dr. Ritchie Shoemaker's office on Maryland's Eastern Shore. 'This fellow had been waterskiing for about an hour on [...]