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One of the greatest risks in the construction industry is schedule delay, including late completion of projects. While there are many potential causes of schedule delay, one cause is damage, [...]

Byline: Wendy E. Parmet Once again the flu is taking lives. Although it is too early to know whether the flu will kill more of us this year than in […]

Pennsylvania is offering a new affordable-housing program that helps first-time home buyers rent a newly built home for three years as a step toward buying it. The program is aimed […]

When Bill Crawley was 8 years old, he took a meat hook and fished out discarded bicycle parts from the Jordan River in Salt Lake City. He reconstructed bicycles from [...]

THREE turn-of-the-century buildings, two of which once housed a restaurant and hotel, have been rehabilitated into 27 rental apartments for low-income tenants. All but five have been rented, half to […]

ADMINISTRATORS at the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia have taken an active approach to girls' classroom passivity with a summer program that has local schoolgirls climbing ropes, scaling walls […]

A COOKING school with a commercial restaurant that outgrew its space in Center City has relocated in a restored 19th-century Italianate villa in the Spruce Hill section, an ethnically and […]

LEAD: While some men of note anticipate having museums, other men who are footnotes have museums. Like Presidents who collect personal memorabilia for their honorary libraries, Christian C. Sanderson saved […]

LEAD: When a fancy new wine store opened here recently, it struck some Pennsylvanians as an event on the magnitude of the dismantling of the Berlin Wall. When a fancy […]

LEAD: The class of elementary and junior high school students at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf kept up a volley of questions for the novelist who had come to […]

LEAD: 'Agua! Agua!' children shout in the largely Hispanic West Kensington section of the city. They are not asking for water. The word is a code to warn drug dealers […]

LEAD: Pennsylvania, starting this month, will require its colleges and universities to make campus crime statistics and security measures available to all prospective students and their parents. Failure to comply […]

LEAD: Perusing the legal notices in the local newspaper recently, Edward W. Heite, an archeologist from Camden, Del., made a discovery that excited him. The state of Delaware was looking […]

LEAD: East meets West and old meets young in an innovative program here that has become a model for other cities in helping elderly refugees break out of isolation and […]

LEAD: On Sunday, the residents of Manayunk will greet about 100 of the best professional cyclists in the world by throwing water in their faces. On Sunday, the residents of […]

LEAD: Roberto Gaggioli, a 25-year-old cyclist from Vinci, Italy, won the fourth annual CoreStates United States Pro Cycling Championship today. Riding for the Pepsi Fanini team, which is based in […]

LEAD: Animal lovers have long argued that hunting is immoral and a form of cruelty, and hunters have long retorted that their sport is a socially constructive exercise and a [...]

LEAD: PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 29 - PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 29 - For almost 75 years, nearly everyone had forgotten about the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's plan to build statues to honor two Civil […]

LEAD: Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania who are studying the early stages of skin inflammation say they have found indications that stress and anxiety may contribute to such diseases […]

LEAD: A green Philadelphia was a veritable mandate from the city founder William Penn, who called for a 'green countrie towne.' A city garden program there is helping to transform […]

LEAD: Pennsylvania's top education official has resigned amid criticism of his leadership and of the state's plans to reallocate spending for special education programs. Pennsylvania's top education official has resigned [...]

LEAD: In a novel effort to help a segment of the population that has often been overlooked by psychiatrists, a Philadelphia hospital has established a mental health program for deaf [...]

LEAD: Each time Kathy Conway, a real estate agent, sells another house in Queen Village she feels as though she were selling her soul. Ms. Conway, who was born and […]

LEAD: When hundreds of residents were told they would have to leave their houses in the Logan area of the city, the structures already posed a hazard: the row houses […]