Pearl Sydenstricker Buck (1892-1973), an American Nobel Prize-winning novelist, dedicated her books and her personal activities to the improvement of relations between Americans and Asians. Pearl Sydenstricker was born in Hillsboro, West Virginia, on Jun...

Pearl S. Buck's genius as a writer lay in her ability to portray her characters in a universal manner; their joys, sorrows, problems, and disillusionments transcend cultural barriers to become understandable to all readers. Buck's earlier works, most of...

"One pays the price for being prolific," bestselling author Pearl S. Buck once told an interviewer. "Heaven knows the literary Establishment can't forgive me for it, nor for the fact that my books sell." In retrospect, Buck's assessment of her own career...

Beijing, (WFS) - Greenpeace China, a non-profit environmental group, recently announced that varieties of pest-resistant genetically modified (GM) rice have been cultivated and sold in Central China's Hubei province over the past two years, without official approval. Greenpeace China, the most vocal opponent...

Bill Herrion doesn't take offense when people ask, with puzzled looks on their faces, "Drexel who?" "Heck, I didn't know who Drexel was until I took the job," said the fifth-year coach who guided the small Philadelphia school to the first major upset...