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In her new book, The Heights: Anatomy of a Skyscraper, author Kate Ascher sheds light on the infrastructure and services that make life and work possible in a modern skyscraper. She examines everything that goes into designing, building and maintaining these towering buildings.

Petty Officer 1st Class Nicholas Checque, 28, of Monroeville, Pa., died during the rescue of Dr. Dilip Joseph, an aid worker from Colorado Springs, Colo.

The class-action lawsuit alleges the state of Michigan has failed to live up to its constitution by not teaching some children to read.

At a modern dairy farm, the high-tech advances aren't in machinery. They're inside the cow.

Teams have lost by even larger margins in the past. The Baltimore Orioles, for example, would probably like to just forget a 30-7 defeat in 2007.

That brings the total to six people forced out after the incident last weekend in Colombia.

Many travelers using United Airlines faced delays Tuesday, but they weren't connected to Hurricane Isaac. Instead, the airline's computer network crashed, leaving large parts of its system paralyzed for several hours Tuesday afternoon.

For 100 years the pen has been mightier than the boredom for crossword puzzle aficionados.

The debate began not with discussions about the economy or even about Obamacare, but about whether candidate Charlie Crist should be allowed to have a small fan to keep him cool.

Most telescope cameras can only capture a small patch of sky at a time. But a new camera has a much larger field of view, and its backers are hoping for help in deciphering its reams of data.