With tens of thousands of students, faculty and staff in close proximity, Arizona's universities are taking steps to prepare for swine flu's next assault.

We're surely oversimplifying, but there seems to be a field of medical research that specializes in finding that certain pleasures — a couple of glasses of wine, for example — once thought to be bad for you turn out in actuality to be good for you.

Steve Kates hasn’t forgotten Pluto. More than nine months after Pluto lost its designation as a planet, Kates is leading a local effort to regain that status.

VANCOUVER, British Columbia -Brad Wright, co-creator and executive producer of the Scifi Channel’s ‘‘Stargate: SG-1,’’ says he has never worked so hard in my life.

I am a pleasant, 76-year-old man whose father died at age 77, three weeks after vascular surgery to repair an abdominal aorta aneurism followed by a lower leg amputation due to gangrene. I inherited my father’s body build and poor circulation, and have a complicated medical history, including peripheral vascular disease with neuropathy, leg cramps, and, since 2003, slow healing wounds on the toes and shins.

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WASHINGTON - Coalition forces have taken custody of the Iraqi scientist known as "Dr. Germ" for her work in creating weapons-grade anthrax, officials said Monday.

"The Wedding of River Song" was a rollercoaster ride through alternate (or simultaneous) time, and a climactic end to Doctor Who's sixth season.

After terrorists attacked America on Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 400 people gathered in a circle at Unity of Mesa Church, closed their eyes and listened as sound healers Eileen and Gene Johnson tapped on crystal singing bowls and talked them through a meditation.