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Window washers donned the colorful tights and appeared outside Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, climbing down the walls and thrilling the young patients.

Speeches in book form are a reliable cash cow for publishers, and tend to fall into the "last minute gift idea" category. But David McCullough's new The American Spirit is a happy exception.

"I think the profession of science is under attack," says one organizer of the worldwide event. "[We've] left that open for politicians to [hijack] science for their own selfish needs."

As a teenager, the Sleater-Kinney guitarist's local record shop, Rubato Records, became the site of an awakening. "I felt like I had discovered a treasure chest," she says, "and I dove in."

Student athlete applicants with histories of domestic or sexual violence will no longer be eligible to play at IU.

Taliban fighters killed the soldiers at a base in the northern part of the country, in one of the deadliest attacks on an Afghan base since the war began.

The actress plays a young African-American woman whose cells, which were taken without her knowledge or consent, went on to become "immortal."

France faces its most important presidential race in more than five decades. But polls show many French voters are undecided or might not vote at all.

Journalist Ahmed Rashid talks about Friday's attack on an Afghanistan military base. More than 100 people are reported dead making it the deadliest attack there since 2001.

As my grandfather lay dying from Black Lung disease, his eldest children did not question or doubt his advice to them: go out and get educations, and master newer ways of working.