Text2 Charles Reznikoff (1894-1976) worked relentlessly, never leaving New York but for a brief stay in Hollywood, of all places. He was admired by ...

Text1 The sun is not growing weaker, yet its light appears to be dimming. Between 1960 and 1990, some scientists believe, the amount of solar radiat...

Unit 96 The discovery of planets around distant stars has become like space-shuttle launches-newsworthy but just barely. With some 50 extrasolar pla...

Unit 95 By modern standards, the hostile summit of Mount Llullaillaco, in the Argentine Andes, is no place fro kids. The ancient Inca saw things dif...

Unit 94 I had two routine checkups last week, and both the eye doctor and the dentist asked me to update my health history for their records. Their ...

Unit 93 Depending on whom you ask, the experiment announced at a Texas medical conference last week was a potential breakthrough for infertile women, ...

Unit 92 A widely heralded but still experimental cancer-fighting compound may be used someday to prevent two other major killers of Americans: heart d...

Unit 91 IF YOU'RE CONFUSED BY ALL the news about the health effects of eating fish, you're not alone. On one hand, the omega-3 fatty acids in ...

Unit 90 Watching a child struggle to breathe during an asthma attack is frightening for any parent. So it is only natural that most moms and dads will...

Unit 89 Sleep is a funny thing. We're taught that we should get seven or eight hours a night, but a lot of us get by just fine on less, and some o...

Unit 87 The countdown goes something like this: 3) IRS auditor, 2) ex-husband's new 20-year-old girlfriend, 1) dentist. The top three people we mo...

Unit 86 It was a big week for Alzheimer's disease, and not just because PBS aired The Forgetting, a first-rate documentary about Alzheimer's w...

Unit 85 Shortages of flu vaccine are nothing new in America, but this year's is a whopper. Until last week, it appeared that 100 million Americans...

Unit 84 At 18, Ashanthi DeSilva of suburban Cleveland is a living symbol of one of the great intellectual achievements of the 20th century. Born with ...

Unit 83 As long as her parents can remember, 13-year-old Katie Hart has been talking about going to college. Her mother, Tally, a financial-aid office...

Unit 82 When it comes to schooling, the Herrera boys are no match for the Herrera girls. Last week, four years after she arrived from Honduras, Martha...

Unit 81 When I applied under Early Decision to the University of Pennsylvania four years ago, I was motivated by two powerful emotions: ambition and f...

Unit 80 Competition for admission to the country's top private schools has always been tough, but this year Elisabeth Krents realized it had reach...

Unit 79 Largely for "spiritual reasons," Nancy Manos started home-schooling her children five years ago and has studiously avoided public schools ever...

Unit 78 There was a time when big-league university presidents really mattered. The New York Times covered their every move. Presidents, the real ones...