From the grocery store checkout line to the local coffee shop, environmentally conscious consumers are forced to choose between saving old-growth forests or the world's supply of petroleum. But for many...

Justice is blind, right? In an ideal world punishments always fit the crime, the innocent never suffer, and the guilty never go free. It's the American way! However, in some cases, justice seems to be...

Picture an average small town. It's not too wealthy, perhaps a bit rough around the edges, but at the center lies a town square. There you find a dozen, maybe 20 stores: a pair of corner groceries, a shoe...

Craig Dahl and Jim Boeheim should get together sometime. Maybe they could hang out and talk about coaching over a cup of coffee. Dahl, the hockey coach at St. Cloud State, and Boeheim, the men's basketball...

(AP) -- The sun has come out and the mercury has passed the freezing mark in most parts of Minnesota. But signs of spring that once were cause for celebration bring a sense of foreboding this year. Scientists...

Tomorrow I register for spring quarter classes, and like thousands of other students, I'll spend several agonizing hours diligently arranging my schedule. Hopefully, I'll avoid the physics professor who...

President Clinton announced last week that the federal government will begin hiring welfare recipients as part of the nationwide initiative to meet the challenges of last year's reform law. This latest...

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- Kevin O'Neill, intense, loud, blunt and tenacious, has built a basketball coaching reputation by recruiting top players and rebuilding floundering programs. Now he has his toughest...

Editor's note: Halfway through the University 2000 planning process, its chief architect plans to retire. University President Nils Hasselmo will be succeeded in July by Mark Yudof, the current executive...

Second-term presidents typically have three central, over-arching priorities: to secure a place in history as a great leader, to leave a legacy of good policy and to ensure their party maintains control...