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How many human bodies does it take to make an elephant? For a team of Pilobolus dancers, the answer — five — lies within their collective improvisation. At 8 p.m. on May 17 through 19, Pilobolus will perform a mixed repertory at the Irvine...

The Orange County Bar Assn. has installed its first female African-American president. During Thursday's 2012 Judges' Night and Annual Meeting in Irvine, Dimetria A. Jackson took on the group's leadership role. A graduate of Dartmouth College and the...

For the first time in its 123-year history, a Berkeley Springs High School graduate was appointed to theU.S. MilitaryAcademy in West Point, N.Y. West Point-bound Loguen McKee, 17, is one of the top 10 graduates from the 2012 class of 181 seniors who...

A tiny filter could have a big impact around the world in the fight against tuberculosis. Using the traditional microscope-based diagnosis method as a starting point, a University of Florida lung disease specialist and colleagues in Brazil have devised...

This year, India's Mahindra & Mahindra became the world's biggest tractor maker. It ran a television commercial in the U.S. to mark the moment. The aim was partly to celebrate — its relatively affordable products, which suit the tastes and...

Dawn Raffel Dawn Raffel is the author of the memoir “The Secret Life of Objects” and “Further Adventures in the Restless Universe.” She is books editor at Reader’s Digest and editor of The Literarian at the Center for...

A few weeks ago over at the Pure Pierre Politics blog this scribe posted an item requesting nicknames of legislators. Naturally the best ones we can’t publish. But there are some that we can share. See how many you can get right. Nickname: “...

It was quite a Wednesday for two U.S. women in winter sports where their country has had little or no historic success. Veteran cross-country skier Kikkan Randall added another line to her litany of impressive career firsts when she became the first U.S....

Jimmy Ellis Frontman for the R&B band Trammps Jimmy Ellis, 74, the frontman for the Trammps R&B group who belted out the refrain "Burn, baby, burn!" in a 1970s-era disco hit, died Thursday at a nursing home in Rock Hill, S.C., according to the Bass-...

President Obama's nominee to head the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, is taking heat from some economists and others for past criticism of "corporate-led economic growth," which he said has come at the expense of the very poor. “Dr Kim would be the first...

Success in life and money usually stems from making good decisions. But you're unlikely to make good decisions without knowledge. And survey after survey shows Americans, young and old, just don't have enough knowledge about basic money issues to make...

Indiana Supreme Court Justice Frank Sullivan, Jr., has been appointed to the faculty of the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law, Dean Gary R. Roberts announced Monday. Sullivan’s appointment takes effect at the start of the Fall...