Starksboro, Vt., population 1,900, seeking to preserve its history while meeting the demands of growth, has asked nearby Middlebury College for help.

The United Nations expects beef and pork consumption to double between 2000 and 2050.

Nicholas D. Kristof

FAMILY TABLE Playing a part at the office, clockwise from top center, the mother hen, the detached dad, the joker, the rebel and the cheerleader.

A group of conservative bishops met on Wednesday at the Resurrection Anglican Church in West Chicago, Ill.

Tuition and fees increased 439 percent from 1982 to 2007, while median family income rose 147 percent.

SHOE INDEX Even these cash cows aren’t safe from the price knife.

Low rates enticed Javier and Irina Lattanzio to refinance their four-bedroom apartment on Central Park West in Manhattan.

Gail Collins

Fans at Lebowski Fest last month in New York.

In a world where there are so many things to be afraid of, add one more to the list - tiny components engineered on the nanoscale that could run amok inside the body.

In July 1990, the first Saturn rolled off the Spring Hill, Tenn., assembly line, with Roger Smith of General Motors holding the key.

Ambulances will take patients to specially equipped hospitals, believed to reduce the chances of brain damage.

Roger Cohen

The Harvard campus in Cambridge, Mass. Returns from the university’s investments have fallen sharply this year.

Mr. Emanuel, who is set to become White House chief of staff, at a news conference on Monday.

The music and lyrics of Odetta, the transcendent folk singer who died on Tuesday, opened a boy's eyes to the crimes and tragedies embedded in American history.