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Deep Springs College is an all-male school — and a working ranch. It sounds very macho, but the increasingly diverse student body says being a man is all about questioning the meaning of masculinity.

Forget for a moment the spooky, restless dead. In Rebecca Makkai's inventive novel The Hundred-Year House, the ghost is just one of the many residents looking for new lives — and finding them.

A new banana enhanced with vitamin A is intended to address diet deficiencies in Uganda. But if the past history of "biofortified" crops is prologue, it faces a tough road ahead.

After an NPR/ProPublica investigation, military officials have decided to exhume the bodies of 11 World War II servicemen who are buried in an American war cemetery in the Philippines.

A selection of 25 deep, joyful, rewarding albums from every genre, out of every corner of the world, from the first six months months of 2014, picked by NPR Music.

Book reviewer Nicki Leone asks who really deserves a lifetime achievement award for literary excellence.By Nicki Leone & WHQR public radioWilmington NC –…

In much of the debate over immigration, there is an underlying question of whether immigrants today are assimilating as easily as past generations. In New York City, the answer is an unqualified "yes," according to a 10-year study involving more than 3,000 young men and women.

By From staff reportsWilmington, NC – No. 10: Tropical Storm Hanna Emergency management officials across the region braced for a hurricane but got a…

The 1996 hurricane season - the eighth most active on ecord - officially ended Saturday. But residents in coastal parts of North arolina are still rebuilding in the aftermath of Bertha and Fran, two urricanes which hit the same section of North Carolina coastline. Aileen eye-LEEN) LeBlanc of member station WHQR in Wilmington reports on rebuilding fforts that include planting trees.

The British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta begins its journey in a young Scottish boy's collection and passes through the hands of a delusional killer. It was auctioned Tuesday for $9.5 million.