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Federal data show that only 13.4 percent of adults in the U.S. have high cholesterol, compared with 18.3 percent a decade earlier. Drugs rather than better lifestyle appear to account for the improvement.

Many young graduates take lower-paying jobs as waiters or cashiers that pay the bills, but rarely use the skills they learned in college and often have little money left to pay off student loans. And the choices they make early in their careers often have a long-lasting financial impact.

Columnist E.J. Dionne sees an urgent need to repeal "Stand Your Ground" laws. They are, he wrote in a Washington Post piece, the result of political pressures brought by the National Rifle Association on politicians who "ought to know better but are too petrified by the NRA to confront it."

The Civil War remains the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history and the defining crisis of the nation. But it might easily have started 12 years earlier. Fergus Bordewich tells the story of the compromise that staved off civil war, and also made it inevitable, in his book, America's Great Debate.

One month after a federal court ordered sweeping changes at a troubled juvenile prison in Mississippi, the company managing the prison is out. The Justice Department describes "systemic, egregious and dangerous practices" at Walnut Grove Youth Correctional Facility.

A new study has determined that some automated essay graders can do as good of a job as humans. Melissa Block talks with New York Times education columnist Michael Winerip about the study and the weaknesses of automatic essay readers.

The president said those implicated should not detract from the rest of the Secret Service.

Ken "The Bug Guy" MacNeil, host of the Science Channel's Bugging Out, has opened a pet shop devoted to insects in Tucson, Ariz. His inventory of about 10,000 includes tarantulas, scorpions and hissing cockroaches from Madagascar, all for sale as pets.

For some Granite Staters the loon represents the state in a very emotional way, and supporters of the bird were out in force on Tuesday, defending a bill…

Annan said there was also evidence the Assad regime had not pulled its military from cities.