The elevator, also called a lift in Great Britain, is a device consisting of a car or platform that moves passengers and freight up and down between the floors of a building. The car, enclosed in a steel frame, glides quickly and smoothly between steel...

An elevator or lift is a transport device used to move goods or people vertically. Languages other than English may have loanwords based on either elevator (e.g. Japanese) or lift (e.g. most European languages, Cantonese). Because of wheelchair access...

GOING UPIn a league of his ownElliot Wronski, a 22-year-old junior on the UNLV men’s tennis team, earned All-Mountain West Conference singles and doubles honors this week for a second consecutive season. He hails from Cheltenham, England, a spa hotbed since mineral springs were...

Like many students at the country's largest college campus, Melissa Nail now thinks twice before boarding crowded elevator cars.It was on her campus three months ago that an 18-year-old freshman was killed while trying to wriggle out of an overcrowded dorm elevator that was stuck...