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The European Court sides with Levi Strauss in its battle with TescoIT WAS a ruling that had consumers seething with anger and many a free trader crying foul. On November 20th the European Court of Jus...

A judge flunks Cleveland's use of vouchers for parochial schools. But will that stall the movement?Walter Milancuk's public-school horror story began early, when his son Derrick spent kindergarten in ...

Behind the brewing war over protecting patients' records in an age of HMOs and online medicineTechnology is a two-edged sword. Rarely is this as clear as it is in the realm of health care. Technology ...

States offer to pick up the tab for unpaid leaveWhen Gina Garro and Brian Duplisea adopted 4-month-old Andres from Colombia last month, they were determined to take time off from work to care for him....

Bush spent $8 million, but hasn't settled with his lawyersFew lawyers did more to help George W. Bush become president than Barry Richard. As Bush's quarterback in the Florida courts during last fall'...

A burial site at 22,000 feet is giving scientists the best look yet at grisly Incan sacrificial ritesBy modern standards, the hostile summit of Mount Llullaillaco, in the Argentine Andes, is no place ...

A distant, oversize world causes cosmic confusionThe discovery of planets around distant stars has become like space-shuttle launches--newsworthy but just barely. With some 50 extrasolar planets under...

Is Earth Getting Darker?The sun is not growing weaker, yet its light appears to be dimming. Between 1960 and 1990, some scientists believe, the amount of solar radiation reaching Earth's surface may h...

How does the country’s economy compare with those of the EU?SOME of the concerns surrounding Turkey’s application to join the European Union, to be voted on by the EU’s Council of Mi...

Up goes gold, down goes the dollarMost economists hate gold. Not, you understand, that they would turn up their noses at a bar or two. But they find the reverence in which many hold the metal almost i...