Ten years ago, seven strangers gathered in a San Francisco storefront to commemorate lives of loved ones lost to AIDS. This informal meeting laid the foundation for the NAMES Project AIDS Memorial Quilt,...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) -- Posted on the wall of Carrie Secret's classroom, handwritten cards in careful cursive strokes list the primary language of her black fifth-graders as "Ebonics." Over in a corner...

Mauryn Buckner twisted impatiently on her grandmother's lap Sunday night while listening in the back of the Ted Mann Concert Hall stage. The little girl, dressed in a green velvet dress with a full white...

Team captains are supposed to lead by example, but Gophers men's tennis players might have wanted to avert their eyes Sunday afternoon from senior captain Ben Gabler. Gabler is one of the Gophers' top...

It was close, but the No. 23-ranked Gophers women's gymnastics team fell short Saturday at Ann Arbor, Mich., to defending Big Ten champion Michigan, 193.525 to 192.1. The scores were almost identical...

After its opener this weekend, it appears Minnesota's men's gymnastics team will need to work out a few kinks before its next meet. Typically, the Gophers do start slow. But Gophers coach Fred Roethlisberger...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat struck a number of important compromises last week that signal a committed determination to restart...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists have located a gene that may increase the risk of inheriting schizophrenia -- a finding that, in an unusual twist, could also explain why many schizophrenics chain smoke. Essentially,...

In eulogizing Franklin Roosevelt, Adolph Berle once remarked that "Great men have two lives, one which occurs while they work on earth, (and) a second which begins at their death and continues as long...

It's becoming an all-too-common paradox in higher education: The abstract academic exercises required in many courses, such as fact memorization and lecture absorption, do not fully prepare students for...