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The viral hit isn't a fluke. South Korea has been cultivating a global music business for decades.

Monica Potts reflects on her time reviewing civilian complaints about encounters with the NYPD, in light of several high-profile, videotaped confrontations this summer between officers and civilians.

http://cptv.vo.llnwd.net/o2/ypmwebcontent/Chion/do%20110721%20New%20Haven%20Promise.mp3More than 100 students were honored on Thursday as the first class…

Jane Austen received just one bid for her hand. Two hundred years later, there were NO bids for her portrait. The painting of a young girl with a parasol was expected to fetch up to $800,000 at auction. It was billed as the only known portrait of the English author. But some scholars had insisted it wasn't Austen at all: her outfit was all wrong and she was too pretty for a writer who celebrated character over beauty.

The new book The Pun Also Rises, by 1995 O. Henry Pun-Off World Champion John Pollack, traces the surprising long and rich history of what some people call the lowest form of humor.

On his second album, Unorthodox Jukebox, Mars traverses the pop landscape, pulling in far-flung influences and making them his own.

Many American food companies, responding to consumer demands, are looking for grain that's not genetically modified. It turns out that non-GMO corn and soybeans aren't hard to find. Years ago, grain traders set up a supply chain to deliver non-GMO grain from U.S. farmers to customers in Japan.

On Aug. 28, 1963, Lewis was the youngest speaker to address the estimated quarter-million people gathered in Washington. Now a Georgia congressman, he says: "I'm not prepared to sit down and give up."

Energy production, military realignment, Hispanic immigration, student enrollment and changing retirement patterns are among the forces driving population gains in America's fastest-growing counties.

Current facial recognition technology is still not as powerful as it seems in the movies — not yet. Some big challenges stand in the way of what you might call "universal facial recognition." But those problems are being solved by all of us, every time we upload photos and label faces on social media.