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Vice President Joe Biden and Rep. Paul Ryan both cited family concerns in major decisions about their careers last week. Does this mark a turning point in the conversation about work-life balance?

Ecuador's Pululahua Geobotanical Reserve, nestled in a crater that last erupted 2,500 years ago, is billed as the world's only inhabited, cultivated volcano.

Marion Nestle's new book is Soda Politics: Taking On Big Soda (And Winning.) It reveals the industry's political and marketing tactics for protecting sales — and tips for advocates to fight them.

In the longest opening match in World Series history, the Kansas City Royals beat the New York Mets, 5 to 4.

The billionaire real estate mogul has seen his numbers slip in the state that holds the first presidential nominating contest, and he let the crowd know about his displeasure Tuesday night.

More than 50 years ago, Groce City college fired Larra Gara from his teaching job. They said he was a communist. Decades later, a researcher found Gara's case and persuaded the college to apologize.

That $1.8 billion figure represents the after-tax loss claimed by Volkswagen in its new quarterly statement. The carmaker's loss before taxes was far higher, at $3.8 billion.

The web provides amazing access, often free, to information for educational purposes, made possible by enabling people and technology. Blogger Marcelo Gleiser introduces us to some of his favorites.

The move would create an 18,000 drug store chain, and is subject to approval by federal regulators.

A.E. Hotchner wrote a memoir of his friend Ernest Hemingway in 1966, though he left out several stories to protect those still living. Now, at 95, he's publishing them.