In the beginning, there was light. And soon after, it seems, there were movies. And with movies came movie posters--the "heralds" that drew people into movie theaters, particularly during the Golden Age of Holl...

Students working on college newspapers across the USA are learning an all-too-real-world lesson: Their papers face the same advertising revenue declines and expense cutbacks as their professional counterparts. ...

An attorney for two gay students at a north Florida high school told a federal judge Thursday they should be allowed to form a campus club promoting tolerance toward gays, despite a school prohibition.But a law...

Roughly one-fourth of the nation's kindergartners are Hispanic, evidence of an accelerating trend that now will see minority children become the majority by 2023.Census data released Thursday also shows that Hi...

She had planned to visit the Medina in Fez, the souks in Marrakesh and the mosques in Casablanca. But the Moroccan vacation would have set Nancy Yale back $15,000 for her family of five. And after laying off a ...

Shawn Alexander can recognize the look immediately. It's one of surprise when a student enters his African-American studies class and finds, standing at the front, a white guy."Years ago, it happened more," sai...

What Caitlin wanted did not seem that hard. She had signed up for Facebook after she married, as Caitlin Shaw. Now, to make it easier for old friends to find her, she wanted to add her maiden name. Her maiden n...

When hard times reached the Schneider household in central Oregon, the longtime stay-at-home mom took action--getting a job at Subway to offset a drop in her husband's earnings. What she didn't do was also nota...

Online, All the TimeAccording to the online tracking service www.comScore, Americans spent 302 billion minutes online in July—or the equivalent of 6,760 lifetimes, give or take. Americans’ favorite...

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