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By STACEY STOWE Having a home renovated is never easy. But at least Adrienne, Cleo and Indie, who normally live in the Bronx, were fortunate enough to have been on an extended vacation in Brooklyn during the noise and dust of their construction project. In June, these three female sea…

By JERRY GARRETT IN the Johnny Cash song “A Boy Named Sue,” the protagonist is inspired by the revelation that his deadbeat dad gave him that awful name because, “I knew you’d have to get tough or die.” Perhaps that’s the rationale for saddling the…

By DENNIS OVERBYE The most enticing property yet found outside our solar system is about 20 light-years away in the constellation Libra, a team of European astronomers said yesterday. The astronomers have discovered a planet five times as massive as the Earth orbiting a dim red star known…

Boris Yeltsin has died. A hero or not? AFP  Get article backgroundBORIS NIKOLAYEVICH YELTSIN helped to destroy the Soviet Union and did much to bring Russia’s democracy into existence. The former construction engineer was not a great builder of institutions; the democracy was flawed.…

By JOHN TIERNEY ALEXANDRIA, Va. —William E. Hurwitz, the prominent doctor on trial here for drug trafficking, spent more than two days on the witness stand last week telling a jury why he had prescribed painkillers to patients who turned out to be drug dealers and addicts. But the…