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Even if you give kids a more healthful school lunch, you can't force them to eat it. You can, however, make small changes to layout and presentation that will make options like fruits and vegetables more appealing to kids, say behavioral economists.

A Dutch design studio is building furniture that is built from a person's unique DNA profile. The process takes genetic profiles, maps them with 3-D imaging and constructs pieces of furniture.

For Republicans along South Carolina's coastal low country, Tuesday is a chance to decide whether they want former governor and famously non-Appalachian Trail hiker Mark Sanford to represent them in Congress.

The daughter of the Democratic political legend says she will run for Congress next year, taking on incumbent Republican Steve Southerland in a district that includes Tallahassee and part of Florida's panhandle

The research team at the University of California at Santa Cruz's Pinniped Cognition and Sensory Systems Laboratory says Ronan is the first nonhuman mammal to show evidence of beat keeping, something previously seen mostly in parrots and cockatoos.

Key school district figures in the Atlanta test cheating scandal are expected to turn themselves in Tuesday.

A New York state senator was arrested Tuesday morning for allegedly trying to bribe his way into the New York city mayor's race. Malcolm Smith allegedly plotted with five others to fix his entry into the race as the Republican nominee to succeed Michael Bloomberg.

Still best known as the singer for grunge-era group Screaming Trees, Mark Lanegan has stayed busy.

Bob Mondello reviews the Criterion Collection's Blu-ray release of Terrence Malick's first feature film, Badlands. It's a movie that put Malick and his two stars, Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek, on the map.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout comes from a family established in Maine for eight generations. When she left Maine for Brooklyn, she says, it was seen as a betrayal. The characters in her new novel make that same journey.