The Boston Landmarks Commission voted Tuesday against upgrading the historical significance of the Huntington Avenue YMCA, paving the way for the construction of a dormitory where the building’s gym now stands.

What can science reveal about our “€œcharacter”€ -€” that core of good, or evil, that shapes our moral behavior? The answer, according to a new book, is that there may not be much of a core, after all. In “Out of Character,”€ scientists David DeSteno and Piercarlo Valdelsolo argue that how we think about character […]

During games, he barks instructions from the bench with the delicacy of an 18-wheeler grinding its way uphill. With reporters, he’s unfailingly polite but seldom makes eye contact. He comes across as shy and earnest, preferring to cede the stage to his players. His boss, Chicago Bulls general manager Gar Forman, says he likes to […]

Two CPR-trained Northeastern University undergraduates recently saved the life of a school employee who collapsed at a field in Brookline.

In the wake of new intelligence pointing a possible attack on railways in the U.S. New York Senator Charles Schumer has proposed a ‘no ride list’ to protect passengers. So what do train riders think?

This is a town filled with diehard basketball fans trying to escape the bad news, and failing.

At a conference last summer, Bill Gates predicted that “place-based activity in college will be five times less important than it is today.” Noting the ever-growing popularity of online learning, he predicted that “five years from now, on the Web – €”for free – €”you’ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. […]

In a constantly changing world, it sometimes seems that our only anchor is personal character. Strip away fashion, politics, and pretense, and what’s left is the true grit at the core of every person, forged early in life, that gives us the gumption to win elections or the weakness to succumb to temptation. But put […]

The tree-climbing seemed a bit much. So did the flag-waving, the “U.S.A.” €™-chanting, and the whooping in the streets. The celebrations, at the news of Osama bin Laden’s death, felt inappropriate somehow. Yes, America’€™s youth deserved a release. On the other hand, someone had died.

In a poignant segment of Northeastern University’s commencement today, the college presented an honorary degree to Japan’s ambassador to the United States to recognize his nation’s courage and resiliency after the devastating earthquake and tsunami in March.

Sitting at the small blue table in his Northeastern University dorm room, Odalis Polanco could not help but marvel at how the collision of chance and choice shaped his life.

It seemed too much. The NFL’s players and owners sparring with one another in federal court – including here in St. Louis at the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals -€“ over a lockout and the future of their $9 billion industry, a cruel joke flung at a nation of fans buried in economic turmoil.