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High-speed rail service operators in southern China have received significant praise for launching a special carriage ...

As a lab technician, I'm doing these four things — including turning bath time into a fun experiment — to get my young ...

Fail to contain the bird flu. Although in the short term this will decrease our egg supply, ultimately we’ll be left with ...

The authors of the 1957 study blamed the mass media image of scientists as the most likely influence for the responses. But how did this image evolve? In the 1931 film, Victor Frankenstein claims that ...

Nicolazzo, meanwhile, believes that sleepovers are a bad idea “for so many reasons,” noting that her two children “were never ...

Grand Theft Auto 5 Trevor actor Steven Ogg has officially debunked the myth that he "hates" GTA and the character he plays in ...

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Hello! Welcome and come on into my first column. As a lifelong reader and current English major, I’ve developed many opinions ...

Once upon a time, animated feature films in America largely came from a single studio founded in 1923. Disney’s lush art and lovable stories became ... Read More ...

There’s a Grand River Transit bus out on the road wrapped in a message. Unity makes us strong, but so does diversity. It ...

Demetrius Frazier, convicted of murder, faces execution in Alabama, using nitrogen gas, despite pleas from his mother and ...