In Essence

A study suggests that all that stimulus money would be better spent on metropolitan areas than given to states.

The average Superfund site costs $43 million to clean up, but the overall economic benefits remain elusive.

Placing even a single superworker among slower ones will boost the speed of the entire group.

With so much of human behavior being linked to human DNA, what's a sociologist to do if everything is inherited?

Think newspapers can only exist online? A study reveals the only three or four percent of newspaper reading happens there.

The newspaper film critic may be well along the path of the ichthyosaurs, soon to be extinct.

The Nazi rise to power in Germany was largely due to voters opting for what they perceived as their economic self-interest.

Ciudad Juárez has a long history of violence between competing drug kingpins.

Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez has attached himself like glue to the nation's secular saint, Simón Bolívar.

Joseph Smith, the 19th-century prophet of the Mormon Church, saw in the story of the Tower of Babel a metaphor for the "infinitie multiplications of opinion" within the Christian world.

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