Research on the reintroduction of large carnivores such as bears and wolves has implications both for the modern-day debate over the appropriateness of reintroduction programs and for the historical debate over what happened 10,000 to 50,000 years ago when one particular predator, human beings, expanded their territory and encountering large numbers of native prey.

A study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that wearing a shoulder seat belt without wearing a lap belt will be a greater risk of some injuries to drivers and passengers than if they were to wear no seat belt at all.

These restrictions put a strain on the hospital’s generators and the water supply and sewage system, which both depend on electric pumps.

Banks are having troubles that are particularly acute in areas where real-estate values have dropped sharply and where industries have retrenched, which eliminate thousands of high-paying jobs.

Britain cut its base lending rate by a quarter of a point to its lowest level in 22 years, giving a boost of confidence to investors and it signaled that European rates will continue to move down even as they move up in the United States.

Researchers said on Thursday that the source of a mysterious clump of hair found in the Yukon Territory was a North American bison and not from the elusive apelike Sasquatch, or bigfoot, said to haunt the woods of western Canada.

To prevent themselves from becoming infested by certain caterpillars corn plants release fragrant chemicals that attract the caterpillars' natural enemy, parasitic wasps, and causing them to home in on the scent and deposit their eggs on the caterpillars' bodies, actions that lead to the demise of the caterpillars when the wasp larvae hatch and devour their hosts.

Henry David Thoreau lived in the attic of his mother's house for most of his life, and even when he lived at Walden Pond rhapsodizing about the rewards of roughing it, often walking home for a slice of pie.

At the beginning of the railroad era, in the second quarter of the nineteenth century, very few people believed in a locomotive having smooth wheels on a smooth track that it could pull cars around a curve or up more than merely a trifling grade.

The visionary who shaped New York City from the 1930s to the 1960s was Robert Moses, where urban renewal became voracious, with eminent domain often being used to snatch private property and destroy neighborhoods.