Sixty thousand women say they've taken fertility treatments-a trend that's sparking more multiple births. Fewer than 1 percent of single babies die. But the danger rises for multiples conceived with

The U.S. Forest Service turns a bit more green.Dombeck is the first director to admit what critics have contended for years - that the taxpayers are taking huge losses on the Forest Service contracts

A rare form of mosquito-borne encephalitis kills three in New York, and the city tries to swat the bug : a

Science looks for ways to keep pilots from getting disoriented. The way human beings perceive their own movement is fairly well understood. Now researchers from diverse fields are using that

Aug 29. marked the 50th anniversary of the first successful test of a nuclear device in the Soviet Union. Moscow's equivalent of the Manhattan Project-led by the legendary Igor V. Kurchatov, the

Thailand's latest landmine victim stirs emotions and renews concern over the plight of the pachyderms : a

In a study published last week in the journal Nature, Robert Weinberg and William Hahn of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research in Cambridge, Mass., reported that they had succeeded in

Across the world, education reform is now seen as indispensable to economic success. Fine; but remember the children : a

Turkey's earthquake cracked the world's heart. Sixty-five countries, even old rivals like Greece and Armenia, sent aid. And in those first days after the Aug. 17 disaster, when foreign rescue teams

In the Central-Western Canyons of the Mexican border state of Chihuahua, the few remaining peasants have a choice. They can cultivate corn on barren cliffs, or they can receive 300 pesos for each