LOS ANGELES - Bob Wieland, a legless Vietnam veteran, said some people were skeptical when he began work on NBC's "Sonny Spoon," thinking he might be there just as window dressing. Wieland, 41, a former medic, lost his legs to a booby trap...

A governmental mandate, 15 years ago, requiring mental care facilities to have a more residential ambience, gave Wieland Furniture Company an oxymoronic but intriguing design problem. How does one make seating cushy and at the same time practically bullet-proof? Wieland's solution, which eventually...

A real-life drama of succession as riveting as any Richard Wagner opera is casting a shadow over this year's Bayreuth Festival, raising the anticipation level among devotees of the German master even before the first curtain rises Wednesday at the musical shrine he inaugurated 131...

The restoration of Germany's famed Anna Amalia Library, a UNESCO World Heritage List site gutted by fire three years ago, has been completed, and the building will reopen next week, officials said Thursday.The $18.2 million restoration was undertaken after a fire blamed on an electrical...

In the essay that follows, Seed analyzes the style and structure of Wieland and argues that the ambiguity and irresolution in the novel reflect Brown's questioning attitude toward the ability of the mind to "grasp truth and order perceptions." Seed goes on to state that in his presentation of the error of perception and the mind's capacity for self-delusion, Brown anticipates Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne