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The word "labor" means a lot of things to a lot of different people. It can mean struggling through a physical miracle for 72 hours to bring a child into the world. It can mean working in a thankless job to make sure there's always food on the table. And for quadruple amputee Army Staff Sgt. Travis Mills, it meant doing what seemed like the impossible.

UC San Diego researchers find another downside to drugs that control bad cholesterol. The drugs are the popular statins like Lipitor and Crestor. The new study finds that the drugs can cause fatigue, especially if you're trying to increase physical exercise. We'll talk about this newest downside to statin drugs.

A new program will try to boost physical activity through written prescriptions for walking.

As conflict rages in the Middle East, 45 Israeli and Palestinian teens came together along the Mexican border to work for peace.

Over the last decade, Utah's toughest cases of homeless people dropped to fewer than 200, from nearly 2,000. Utah's size and support from Mormon leaders are among the reasons for its success.

Iranian Maryam Mirzakhani, a professor at Stanford, was among four winners of the Fields Medal announced today. She said she hoped the win "encourages young female scientists and mathematicians."

The Center for Students in Recovery at the University of Texas is one of a small but growing number of programs catering to former addicts at U.S. colleges and universities.

The war has put dreams of college on hold for some 40,000 Syrian refugees in Turkey. Enver Yucel hopes to create a higher ed system to meet their needs, with coursework in English, Arabic and Turkish.

A couple is spending 365 days in the nation's most visited wilderness area to raise awareness of a sulfide-ore mining plan they say will put the watershed ecosystem in danger. Some locals disagree.

Shara Worden's music sounds both micro-orchestrated and entirely, ecstatically spontaneous. Every song here is a mission statement and a directive; each is propulsive and demanding of full attention.