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WASHINGTON – After waiting in limbo for months, Lester Crawford (search), President Bush’s choice to be commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, was confirmed easily by the Senate on Monday. Three senators — Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., Tom Coburn, R-Okla., and Patty Murray, D-Wash. — had placed holds on …

ITHACA, N.Y. – Urie Bronfenbrenner, a Cornell University psychologist who pioneered an interdisciplinary approach to the study of child development and helped create the federal Head Start program, has died. He was 88. Bronfenbrenner, a member of the Cornell faculty since 1948, died at his home Sunday from complications from …

NEW YORK – A vast part of the U.S. oil industry was paralyzed on Friday hours before powerful Hurricane Rita’s (search) expected landfall on the Texas coast. The storm, packing 135 mile-an-hour winds, already forced shut 15 big U.S. refineries, adding to the four that had remained shut after Hurricane …