The term order is a taxonomical category used to classify organisms within one or more closely related families. Order names of plant families generally use the suffix -ales (ex. Rosales) and order names of animal families end with an -a (ex....

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The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith: Order, Meaning, and Free Will in Modern Medical Science. By Robert Pollack. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000. xvi + 125 pp. $19.95 (cloth). God After Darwin: A Theology of Evolution. By John F....

Insect specimens that have puzzled museum curators for decades turn out to represent a lineage so odd that scientists have named a new order just for them, the first one created in 87 years. The order, Mantophasmatodea, has at least three species,...

Demand for big-ticket manufactured goods plunged in August by the largest amount in seven months, with widespread weakness signaling a slowdown in the nation's industrial sector.The Commerce Department reported Wednesday that orders for durable goods, everything from commercial jetliners to home appliances, fell by 4.9...

Guatemala's president on Tuesday ordered the national police to clean out corrupt officers and upgrade training after six members of the force were accused of killing three Central American Parliament members.President Oscar Berger gave the Interior Ministry 15 days to come up with rules that...