Eve Conant

A student trapped in a locked-down building Monday morning exchanges anxious messages with her family, as the violent ordeal unfolds.

With its stacks of yellowing historical documents and staff of earnest archivists and librarians, the National Archives doesn't seem like a typical setting for intrigue.

Iraqi troops turned their rifles on Americans on a joint patrol, exposing the risks for embedded U.S. military advisers. One mother's quest for justice.

A new study reveals that American kids are exposed to as many as 50 hours a year of TV food advertising—much of it for sugary snacks. Are the ads exacerbating the national obesity problem?

You might not know her name, but she's fast become a fresh face of the antiwar left. Missouri mom Tina Richards became an overnight YouTube sensation last week, when an encounter she had with Rep.

Night is when suicidal vets usually show up at the emergency room of the San Francisco VA Medical Center. But a few weeks ago, the ER had one who came in at 10 a.m., frantic and saying he had a gun. "He was haunted, desperate," says Chad Peterson, medical director of the center's posttraumatic-stress-disorder team. "He was going to be redeployed to Iraq and said suicide was his only way out." Peterson managed to talk the man out of killing himself and into a program, but weeks later the...

Rep. Patrick Kennedy talks about his past addictions and the work he's done to improve treatment options in America.

Who will care for America's baby boomers when cancer strikes? A new study predicts a shortfall of as many as 4,000 oncologists by 2020, with no easy solution in sight

A new study finds that close to 80 percent of children in U.S. hospitals are receiving drugs that have been approved only for grownups. The growing problem of 'off label' prescriptions.

The dean of American historians assesses President Reagan's faults and virtues

Sen. Patty Murray speaks out on why she thinks the Bush budget shortchanges VA health care--and what Democrats in Congress should do about it.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali moved to the United States last September when she was invited to join the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington, D.C. Last week her controversial memoir, "Infidel," was published here.

Print out this article and hand it to your boss. Tell them Harvard thinks you should take a nap. Honest.Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Athens Medical School have just released findings from a large study that shows how mid-day napping reduces one's chance of coronary mortality by more than a third.

President Bush's State of the Union address may not have done much to improve his popularity. But it did succeed in jump-starting debate over one of the leading—and most contentiously lobbied issues—on his domestic agenda: health-care reform.

On Wednesday, after decades of grim news, the American Cancer Society reported the steepest decline in United States cancer deaths in the 70 years since nationwide data has been compiled.

A new report details a historic drop in cancer death rates. But in recent years, the decline for women has been half that for men. What's behind the gender gap?

By now, many of us have heard some of feng shui's principles: no sharp edges in the bedroom; clutter is bad energy; don't build a home at the end of a dead-end road.

A currency battle. Accusations of commercial piracy. An emerging strategic rivalry. The United States and China were fairly cordial to each other in George W.

Nigeria has the dubious honor of being one of the most corrupt countries on earth. From petty bureaucrats to top-level officials, graft has always been rampant in the largest nation in Africa with its 137 million people.

The tsunami's legacy now includes a good idea. A consortium of 160 leading U.S. corporations announced it is teaming up with the Red Cross, CARE and other relief organizations to provide help when disaster strikes again.

George W. Bush has said it often enough. The No. 1 security challenge for America post-9/11 is to prevent nuclear weapons from falling into the hands of terrorists or rogue regimes.

Imagine a homey hospital suite: skylights flood the room with sunlight; violins play softly from a CD player. A terminally ill cancer patient rests in a soft bed, but she is having trouble confronting the fears that come with the end of life.

TRAVEL 2005: TOURISMHAVING FUN DOING GOODFOR SOME ALTRUISTIC TRAVELERS, VACATIONS MEAN MORE THAN JUST A DAY AT THE BEACH.Jen and Ian Close were ready to try something new.

The Turbulent Decade by Sadako OgataAs the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees during the 1990s, Ogata was at the forefront of some of history's ugliest post-cold-war conflicts: the Rwandan genocide, the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans, Saddam's suppression of the Kurds in northern Iraq and Afghanistan's refugee crisis.

There's supposed to be no crying in baseball. But there was Mark McGwire in Washington last week, fighting back tears, his voice choked with emotion, telling a congressional committee investigating steroid use in baseball how he, well, couldn't really tell them much. "My lawyers have advised me that I cannot answer these questions without jeopardizing my friends, my family or myself," said the retired superstar, whose 70 home runs in 1998 shattered one of baseball's most hallowed...

When the kidnappers came for Zeena al Qushtaini, she was dressed, as one friend put it, "in the latest fashion." She wore a $5,000 watch, her hands were manicured and her hair was highlighted to accent her blue eyes.

Now this here's a Colt submachine gun, and this over here is an AK-47: that's probably what you'll see your enemy with more than anything else. Watch out--the barrel gets hot during long fire fights." This is advice for a group headed for Iraq, but it's not Marines--it's diplomats.

No one was expecting Syria to take center stage. But when 30 international delegations met this week in London to bolster support for Palestinian political and economic reform, the gathering was overshadowed by increasingly harsh rhetoric against Damascus.Unscheduled meetings and communiques between the U.S. delegation, led by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and her European counterparts, focused on coordinated calls for the immediate withdrawal of Syrian military and intelligence forces...

Some $340 million has been raised privately for tsunami relief. But donors, beware: while some charities turn money into direct aid, others spend big bucks on overhead costs. (Some charities ask the donor to pray with them and then count the call as a "service"; this allows the charity to keep some of the money.) A look at which agencies made the grade.AMERICAN RED CROSS: A leading force in tsunami aid, the group's raised some $150 million already. 91% (% spent on program services) $8 (Cost to...

The battle for the hearts, minds and bodies of the tsunami generation is underway. Most of the efforts are well-meaning. U.S.-based adoption agencies have been fielding hundreds of calls from generous Americans hoping to adopt a tsunami orphan into a loving home.But they'll have to wait.