JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (The Los Angeles Times) - Like a college student at a frat party, much of the world is on a binge. Oil and gas are being consumed faster than ever. Emissions of pollutants and...

Last week in Japan, professor Allen M. Goldman, head of physics at the University's School of Physics and Astronomy, was awarded the Fritz London Memorial Prize. The award, regarded as the highest of its...

The University is conducting an inventory of the toxins it holds on campus, following a mandate by the federal government looking to promote safe handling of toxins at universities nationwide. The mandate...

Last week President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan imposed 29 new constitutional amendments that increase his broad control over the Pakistani parliament and military. Musharraf imposed the amendments to...

henever critics herald a new album as "sounding mature," it is code that the musician made a record that is tame, toothless and chock full of songs about growing old. But One Beat (Kill Rock Stars), Sleater-Kinney's...

LOS ANGELES (The Los Angeles Times) - The California Senate has widened its probe of music industry accounting practices and is investigating whether major record companies defrauded artists out of royalties...

Stanford volleyball coach John Dunning walked into the pressroom following his squad's win in the State Farm Volleyball Classic championship match on Saturday night and immediately asked for a bottle of...

n an effort to increase knowledge about Asian-American culture in the Midwest, the University is considering adding an Asian-American studies minor to its programs beginning this spring. The new minor,...

Following the financial, athletics and administrative predicaments that highlighted most of the past year, the University is now looking to replace the man who led it through everything, former University...

Four years after Jesse Ventura's gubernatorial campaign made "third-party politics" a household phrase in Minnesota, Ventura's June 18 announcement that he will not seek re-election sent four major candidates...