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In our March 1952 issue, editor William H. Whyte Jr. introduced the term, inspired by the phrase "doublethink" in George ...

Olympic Heights, which had finished in fifth place in both 2023 and 2024, won the Class 2A Large Non-Tumbling Division with ...

The inside story on how and why Fox landed the biggest star in football to be the biggest star of its Super Bowl broadcast.

Teams of teens from across the region squared off in competitive academics that included everything from art and music to ...

Each winner has a passion for helping students and making a difference in their community. Education, they said, was more ...

Four seasons in New Orleans bought him a season in Philadelphia, where he helped the Eagles make it to a legendary Super Bowl ...

At The Woodlands Christian Academy, students flourish in a comprehensive and vertically aligned pre-K-12 STEM program that is ...

Hardy anglers dig into the ice at Blue Mesa Reservoir helping to cull hungry lake trout that menace the kokanee ...

Disney fired hundreds of American IT staff 10 years ago in Orlando, Florida, and replaced many of them with “high-skilled” ...

Historical market hunting of wildlife contributed to the demise of many now-recovered game and commercial species. Might the idea have a modern role regarding overabundant populations? The concept of ...