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Twenty three universities have agreed to share and combine their digitized content, including millions of scanned books and documents, in one gigantic, 78-terabyte library that launched Monday.

Breast surgeon joins Dyson -Surgeon Dr. Hank Schmidt has been named to the breast surgery program at Vassar Brothers Medical Center's Dyson Center for Cancer Care.

Illinois women enrolled in Medicaid who are considered to have a high risk for developing hereditary breast and ovarian cancer now have access to genetic testing and counseling.

Israel May Have Become a Liability for U.S. Analysis by Cherrie Heywood RAMALLAH, West Bank, Oct 13 - The relationship between two of Iran's strongest critics, the U.S. and Israel, is once again under the ...

As universities around the world compete harder for students and professors, they look more closely at where they stand in the growing number of international rankings.

Two Japanese scientists and an American won the 2008 Nobel Prize in physics on Tuesday for theoretical advances that help explain the behavior of the smallest particles of matter.

Chicago police say one teenager was killed and another was severely wounded in a shooting on the city's South Side.

If history is any guide, this year's Nobel economics prize will award the developers of economic theories that have had the time to take root, grow and prove resilient.

Indeed, Mr. Obama has extensive connections with the granddaddy of activist groups, Acorn , which has gotten millions in government grants for its low-income housing programs.

Regular CV readers already know of John McCain's past griping about planetariums .

The attorney for the Liberty Township day-care provider who discovered 6-month-old Nicholas Munden unconscious on Sept.

WHO is Barack Obama? Is he the thoughtful, moderate guy he's appeared to be in the first two presidential debates? Or is he a closet radical? The election is less than a month away, and we still don't know.

Few affordable stores inspire the devotion of Spanish-based Zara . A steady stream of those who have shopped the brand in Europe or the coasts have poured into the Old Orchard store since it opened on Sept.

UPDATED 12:22 PM - NEW YORK - General Motors Corp. shares hit their lowest price since 1949 in the opening minutes of trading today as financial turmoil and a weakening global auto market heightened worries ...

Barack, Bill, and Me : The Bill Ayers that Barack Obama and I worked with was no "domestic terrorist." That Barack Obama and William Ayers knew each other during the 1990s may tell us something about the two ...

Archaic corporate governing systems that failed to ferret out risky business deals helped stoke the nation's deepest financial meltdown since the Great Depression, a University of Illinois business law expert ...

U.S. and U.K. universities continue to dominate an annual ranking of the world's top 200 higher education institutions, with Harvard heading the table for the fifth year running, Yale in second place and ...

Shares of General Motors Corp. lost nearly one-third of their value Thursday, plunging to their lowest level since July 1950 after Standard & Poor's said the automaker's credit could fall further into junk ...

General Motors shares today plunged to their lowest level since the opening months of the Korean War, as investors continued to fret that the decline in U.S. vehicle sales may be spreading to the rest of the ...

Oct 9, 2008 5:36 am US/Central CHICAGO Police are investigating after a man with a knife forced his way into a woman's apartment and sexually assaulted her inA an area that isA to numerous University of Chicago ...