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A remote section of Kazakhstan was once the secret testing ground for the Soviet nuclear arsenal. Now, with the help of a $219 million U.S. program, this isolated plain is the perfect place to secure dangerous nuclear material left behind in Kazakhstan by the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Some employers have concluded that employees enrolled in high-deductible health plans that are linked to a health savings account can't be given the same price break on workplace clinic services that their coworkers in regular PPOs and HMOs receive.

When Adrian Tomine and Sarah Brennan started planning their wedding, they puzzled over what to give their guests as favors. Then it clicked: Tomine, who has done illustrations for The New Yorker, could put together comic strips. The strips are published in a new book, Scenes From an Impending Marriage: A Prenuptial Memoir.

University of California employees would work longer before retiring – and pay more for health care when they do. The changes were approved by the UC Board of Regents Monday.

Hilma Wolitzer's finely observed comedy of manners follows the romantic misadventures of recently widowed 62-year-old Edward Schuyler as he re-enters the dating pool with a splash.

This summer in London, female boxers will compete in the Olympics for the first time. The women competing for a spot on the U.S. team will make history, but few know who they are — and why they box.

Airs Tuesday, May 15, 2012 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV

On KPBS Midday Edition, we take a look at top San Diego military stories of 2011. The year included military cuts, the end of "don't ask, don't tell," and a close to the war in Iraq, among other things.

Hundreds of miles of new fencing has been built along the U.S.-Mexico Border. But some historic monuments that mark the exact boundary are being left behind the fence, blocking access from the U.S. side.

Laura Pollan, a founder of Cuba's Ladies in White, the island's most prominent dissident group, died Friday at age 63 after a brief illness. Her death comes at a difficult time for the group, as it struggles to broaden its message beyond freedom for jailed dissidents.