A Cancer Cluster Is Tough to Prove

George Johnson RAW DATA Last month, thousands of Marines and their families were blocked in federal court from pursuing their claim that the government had given them cancer. The decision,…

Poet Laureate Philip Levine Dies At Age 87

Philip Levine, a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose intimate portraits of blue-collar life were grounded in personal experience and political conscience, died Saturday. Levine was 87. Levine, the country’s poet laureate…

Can failing be good for your career?

When other women ask Christine Lagarde about coping with failureand they often dothe head of the International Monetary Fund doesn’t mince her words. “Oh get over it. Get over it…