An ellipse is a kind of oval. It is the oval formed by the intersection of a plane and a right circular cone-one of the four types of conic sections. The other three are the circle, the hyperbola, and the parabola. The ellipse is symmetrical along two...

In mathematics, an ellipse (from the Greek ἔλλειψις, literally absence) is the locus of points on a plane for which the sum of the distances from any point to two fixed points is constant. The two fixed points are called foci (plural of focus)....

Somewhere beyond the sea, there’s a lot of inspiration for spring. Shades such as aqua and motifs such as coral paired with sleek, contemporary furnishings were among the top trends at the Spring Market at Laguna Design Center showrooms Tuesday. Nature, it appears, is a...

President Bush, keeping up a White House tradition that spans decades, ushered in the holidays Thursday as the National Christmas Tree came aglow in bright lights of gold, red and blue. The president thanked people across the country for upholding the spirit of the season."During...

we-almost-revealed-the-JT Leroy-hoax press release a few months back, The Nation's publicity director, Mike Webb, fired off a release this afternoon--in the wake of USA Today's exclusive NSA data-mining blockbuster--about his own magazine's coverage of NSA data-mining. Webb's message cites the work of writer Tim...

When I was young, all journalists of any ambition worshiped Trow because of his groundbreaking 1980 essay, "Within the Context of No-Context." As style, as vision, a theory, the piece had enormous impact. It was published in The New Yorker, and I'd read the New...