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When Ronald Reagan's doctors announced two years ago that the President suffered from colon cancer, the world also learned that his brother Neil had received the same diagnosis. That apparently incidental detail did not surprise cancer researchers. They have long known that family members can share a genetic predisposition...
Some exhibitions might have been better as books, and "Berlinart 1961-1987," the Museum of Modern Art's big summer show that closes Sept. 8 in New York City and reopens Oct. 22 in San Francisco, is one. Its senior curator, Kynaston McShine, took on a large subject, perhaps too...
It is a hard fate at the best of times, and the best of times have been rare. In imperial Rome, orphans were commonly sold into slavery or simply killed off. Although the Roman Catholic Church forbade infanticide, Pope Innocent III was dismayed by the number of children's bodies...
Austrians have officially given up the becher and the pfiff as units of volume. The Soviets likewise no longer use the zolotnik and the funt for weight. So why do Americans cling to such archaic units of measurement as the pound, bushel and inch? Our system of units, a modification...
Perhaps the most confusing phenomenon of all is the discovery of a glowing companion to the supernova that is 100 times as bright as Sanduleak had been. Scientists are frankly stumped by its appearance. Two teams of astronomers, from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and London's Imperial College...