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Regulators say R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. must stop selling four kinds of cigarettes because the Food and Drug Administration said the company had failed to show they aren't riskier than cigarettes on the market before mid-February 2007.

FDA Orders 4 Cigarette Products Pulled From The Market

The Food and Drug Administration exercised its regulatory power to compel a tobacco company to stop selling cigarettes after the maker failed to show they don't raise new public health issues.

UNC sophomore Anna Clemons explains she didn't have a great experience living in a dorm at her former university: "I don't party. When you're banging on people's doors and yelling at 3 a.m., that to me is not home."

Where To Live When You're A College Student

We hear a lot about the cost of college getting out of control. The fact is, on many college campuses, the cost of room and board is actually more than the cost of tuition.

"For most of the 19th century, there was less concern about the perils of taking cocaine than there was about the negative side effects of drinking green tea," says author Matthew Sweet. The backlash against green tea was caused by a mix of baseless fears (that it triggered hysteria and insomnia) and genuine concerns about it being toxic as a result of widespread adulteration.

Before Green Tea Was A Superfood, It Was Feared As A Supertoxin

These days, green tea has its health halo pretty firmly affixed. But in Victorian England, adulteration was rampant, and the drink was seen as a "stomach-churning, nerve-jangling threat to health."

Small Changes By Employers Can Raise Workers' Health Costs

As the enrollment window opens for employer-provided health insurance, workers may see changes for wellness programs, dependents' coverage and specialty drugs that could be costly.

Author Mary Karr says she once broke her computer's delete key while writing a memoir.

Mary Karr On Writing Memoirs: 'No Doubt I've Gotten A Million Things Wrong'

Karr discusses the faults of memory, the challenges of writing about loved ones and the pain of deleting 1,200 pages because "there was something untrue about them." Her new book is The Art of Memoir.

Fiorina is the only woman in the crowded field of 16 major Republican candidates. Even if no one in the early days of her career expected she'd run for president, as one friend said, "there was no doubt Carly was going somewhere."

Carly Fiorina, The Outsider, Actually Got Her Start In Washington

The former Hewlett-Packard CEO has made her mark in the GOP primary as an outsider taking on the establishment. But her break in business actually came in federal sales with AT&T.

Cars and homes in Middletown, Calif., lay charred by the Valley Fire, which was 15 percent contained as of Tuesday afternoon.

Fast-Moving Wildfires Destroy Hundreds Of Homes In Northern California

The Valley Fire alone has claimed 585 homes and hundreds of other structures since it started Saturday. At least one person has died.

MIT List Visual Arts Center social media coordinator Mark Linga demonstrates how a QR reader plays an audio file on his phone that corresponds to a piece of art. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)

Art Museums In The Digital Age

New digital technologies are changing the museum world: mobile apps, QR codes, beacons, 3-D printers, tablets.

Syrian migrants planning to cross onto boats to the nearby Greek island of Kos, try on life jackets offered for sale outside a tourist shop in the coastal town of Bodrum, Turkey, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2015. (Lefteris Pitarakis/AP)

Finding Profits In Europe's Migrant Crisis

Many in Europe and the United States are profiting from the influx of migrants, including shop owners and American pension funds.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Tuesday at a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organization in Dushanbe, Tajikistan.

Putin Defends Russian Military Support For Syrian Regime

The Russian president says military assistance for Bashar Assad's government is necessary to defeat ISIS. The U.S. says it could exacerbate Syria's civil war.

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