LaShonda Brown’s high school record was far from stellar: She fell through the cracks in her urban Chicago school, became a teenage mother, and dropped out. Yet even after she bounced back—earning her ...

On board the space shuttle that lifted off July 4 was a black plastic briefcase marked "Critical Space Item." Inside were 600 seeds. John Kiss watched from the ground as the briefcase holding his ...

The market for protein biochips, which are glass chips covered in proteins used in drug discovery and to test interactions between proteins, is set to grow to 10 times its current size, to US$700 ...

The dangers of coal mining were tragically illustrated in this week's Sago Mine explosion, in which 12 men were killed. Still, the profession is growing and the price of coal has doubled in the last ...

Economists surveyed by the paper said that the U.S. gross domestic product will grow at a 3.5% rate in the first half of 2006 and 3.1% in the second half of the year, the paper said in a front-page ...

Unexpected Transportation Security Administration charges dulled the luster of Southwest's fourth quarter profits, but the carrier pledged to fight those charges and remains committed to growing ...

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela’s economy will grow between 5 percent and 6 percent in 2006, compared with this year, the president of Venezuela’s central bank said Friday.Gaston Parra Luzardo told the ...

LONDON — After posting annual gains of 18.7 percent in 2004 and 9.7 percent in 2005, the semiconductor photomask market will grow 4.3 percent in 2006, reaching sales of $3.2 billion, according to The ...

When Kara Mansfield learned she had celiac disease, nearly 20 years ago, she was discouraged not so much because it meant ridding her diet of foods such as wheat bread and pasta but because the ...

Rockers line the walk in front of the Charless Home in this April 24, 2006 file photo. ST. LOUIS • Bethesda Health Group of Des Peres, one of the area's oldest and largest providers of senior-living ...