National, state records fall after students Rajiv Mallipudi and Roosevelt Offoha pick up powerlifting

Autobiographical details and inspiration from family stories form the core of Leithauser’s dense and emotional work, which follows Bianca, a young art school student based on Leithauser’s mother-in-law, as she matures in a city that is changing in unexpected ways.

Globally, more than 1.6 billion adults and 20 million children under the age of 5 are overweight. In the United States, 66 percent of adults and 16 percent of American children weigh too much, and by 2015, that figure could reach 75 percent of all Americans.

As the Arctic warms meteorologically, it has begun to warm politically. Norway and Russia have sparred over claims to the Barents Sea and economic exploitation of Svalbard. Canada and United States disagree over the Beaufort Sea. Canada and Denmark have traded barbs over a disputed speck of land off the Greenland coast called Hans Island.

Pamela Bennett’s study of immigrant black and African American success in higher education could be game-changer for educational policy-making.

There’s not a scrap of paper to be scribbled on, or even a book to crack open. It’s life in the digital, paperless world of George Dimopoulos.

Video-game style learning tool allows students to stand at the foot of Mount St. Helens and explore terrain during the volcano’s eruption in 1980.

The current market remains tight, but that should not be regarded as an indicator that the shortage has been averted. It’s only been postponed, experts say.

Americans, Europeans, and patients from the Middle East who need eye surgery, hip replacements, or cardiac procedures are flying to India or Mauritius or Singapore or Abu Dhabi.

New research indicates that engaging children in the arts stimulates regions of the brain that involve all types of learning.