Martin Luther King Jr. graces one page, Angelina Jolie the next. A photo of a man on fire opens the book of Revelation. And laid across a two-page image of gasoline spilling from a pump is a quote that begins, "The whole earth was amazed and followed the beast." It's not the good book some may remember. While the Bible has been re-created and repackaged innumerable times, publishers of the ...

Scott Butcher, local author and historian, likes to creep people out. Maybe it's unavoidable. Take living in York County (with 10,000 registered historic sites), add a last name that conjures thoughts of blood and knives, plus a talent for storytelling and passion for local culture.

MANCHESTER -- The local historical society has applied to the state for recognition of a landmark farmhouse in the north end of town that is facing imminent destruction.

Cutting edge research and scholarship, artistic accomplishment and exemplary service to society will be celebrated here on Saturday, October 11, as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences officially welcomes its 228th class of Fellows.

The reclusive society's film event is like no other. No paparazzi, no cellphones, and the foreign attendees are sequestered on an island. You know you're not in Cannes when the all-female marching band, wearing white go-go boots, belts out communist anthems at the opening ceremony.

Formula One teams agree that the sport must respond in a responsible way to the environmental challenges we face. Here, the leading figures...

Schoolchildren are celebrating, commentators are astonished and purists are fuming over what they describe as a scandalous attack on 500 years of French history.

A culture that fails to encourage and even ostracizes young people, especially girls, who excel at mathematics is putting America at a disadvantage compared to countries where such talent is recognized and encouraged, according to a new study led by UW-Madison researchers. The findings are reported today in the Notices of the American Mathematical Society. Janet Mertz, a UW-Madison researcher ...

Zarf writes "I'd like to file a bug report on the US educational system. The New York Times reports on a recent study that shows the US fails to encourage academic talent as a culture.'"There is something about the culture in American society today which doesn't really seem to encourage men or women in mathematics," said Michael Sipser, the head of M.I.T.'s math department. "Sports achievement ...

''A clergyman in charge of education for the country's leading scientific organisation - it's a Monty Python sketch," pronounced Britain's top atheist, Richard Dawkins, recently. How the world turns. In the days of Galileo it was the church that went around persecuting scientists. Now the boot appears to be on the scientific foot. That is how it must feel, at any rate, to Professor Michael ...