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A team of scientists is studying mud, ooze and other material from the bay's bottom to help the EPA crack down on pollutants. The tubes of glop they've collected from throughout the Chesapeake Bay are like biopsies — they indicate where the bay is healthy and where it's dying.

How does San Diego County's Board of Supervisors compare to the state's 57 other boards? What we thought would be a simple demographic survey turned out not to be so simple.

Najah Ali was celebrated as an example of Iraq's bright future when he competed at the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens. But now the boxer has been denied a student visa to the United States to earn a degree in computer science.

Thursday Night Thing is back. Silent film fests, major writers in town and even a poetry slam for your Wednesday. Here are our picks for what to do with your weekend and beyond.

Darkly funny, suspenseful and cunningly plotted, Gillian Flynn's Gone Girl will be published June 5. In this exclusive selection from the book's opening, we meet Nick and Amy, the seemingly perfect couple whose alternating chapters soon reveal them to be unreliable narrators — and spouses.

Farai Chideya talks with professor Edmond Keller about President Bush's trip to Africa, Kenya's rival political parties agreeing to review last year's disputed elections, and Somalia's "forgotten crisis."

Muslims in China have developed their own set of practices with Chinese characteristics. The biggest difference is the development of independent women's mosques with female imams leading the prayers. But now, economics — not the state or resistance inside Islam — threaten their survival.

With Halloween right around the corner, why not watch some movies to fit the mood? Some classic and recent horror films fit for the holiday are completely free to view or download online. Hook up a computer to a TV or huddle some people around the monitor, because the Internet offers a surprising fare of films ready for the Halloween weekend.

Even if you haven't heard of biomimicry, you no doubt have heard of Velcro, the self-adhesion product. Velcro was inspired by nature. Swiss chemist George de Mestral copied the way cockleburs clung t

As many as one-third of the world's coral reefs may be headed toward extinction. A new study blames the destruction on a range of culprits, from fishing boats to climate change.