London's pea soup fog used to be a deadly killer, until the government cleaned it up. Can China, and the world, learn from example?

The GOP's budget guru says there's nothing hypocritical about decrying cuts one minute and endorsing them the next

Classic and iconoclastic books shake up the alphabet and take kids on a trip through the Dictionapolis of the written word.

Enjoy corners of the TV world that don't contain a mote of meanness, brought to you by Busy Philipps and RuPaul

Fascinating world views from the World Scrabble Championships to a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea

A special roundup of the big flicks that never quite made it, from "Me So Horny, You So Pretty" to Jerry Bruckheimer's "Ellis Island."

Apparent natural-gas blast at welding shop collapses part of building in south Los Angeles

It's the Gore campaign's turn to look dumb.

Laura Prepon is Chelsea Handler (kind of), Amanda Peet's in love with the help, and the return of Buffy's Giles

When I taught Marshall Coulter, he was a sweet, troubled student. Then a single bullet changed his life forever

Readers respond to apostrophe catastrophes, Republican racism and the antiwar movement.

Today's 7-year-olds must do interviews, look through thousands of words, and answer 60 math questions in four minutes. This homework mania doesn't teach kids anything except that life is full of pain.