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Many associate culture in Athens with ruins and ancient artifacts. But the Greek government and several big philanthropic foundations want to put the city...

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Northeastern University won’t estimate how much merit aid it might offer if you get in. Can schools make you enroll if they don’t give...

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Share close Share page Copy link About sharing Image source, Getty Images A German court has sentenced an ex-teacher to life in prison for...

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A month from the Beijing Olympics, the comeback the American skier was certain that she had in her has arrived just in time. Thursday...

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Australia’s Central Tablelands, hundreds of miles northwest of Sydney, are dominated today by grasses and spindly trees. But scientists recently discovered that some of...

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Sidney Poitier, the pioneering actor who died at 94, has been chronicled in The New York Times for decades. Here is a look back...

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Three of the deaths involved direct contact with bats, the C.D.C. said. Five people in the United States died from rabies last year, the...

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Foreign ministers from the alliance, meeting Friday, hope that Moscow will choose diplomacy and de-escalation instead, amid skepticism that Russia is sincere in wanting...

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The U.S. intelligence community offered steps that would mitigate — but not stop — spyware developed by firms like the NSO Group. WASHINGTON —...