Tim Rue Michael J. Dear

THE NEW URBAN STUDIES
Scholars in Los Angeles are using their region to challenge the ideas of the "Chicago School," which has long dominated the discipline.

POETRY AND PLACE
Robert Penn Warren once advised his protégé, Timothy Murphy, to go home to North Dakota and "grow some roots."

Two scholars who wrote Encarta entries say editors asked them to tone down material on the Armenian genocide. ... A literary scholar says too many of her peers suppress their ethics in order to follow theoretical fashions.

The broad implications of mapping the human genome