July 4 Barbecue From America’s Melting Pot

Foley Square, lower Manhattan. Circa 1950. My grandfather had dragged his young sons all the way downtown for a simple exercise: to extol the glories of his adopted country. He lined the boys up in front of the courthouse and pointed to its inscription: “The true administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good [...]

Arrest Warrant Issued For Top Afghan Banker

The former governor of the Afghan central bank who fled the country will be prosecuted for his alleged role in the failure of the nation’s largest private lender, the Afghan attorney general’s office said Tuesday. Abdul Qadir Fitrat and other officials at the central bank face prosecution for not acting on warnings about widespread corruption [...]

Meet The IMF’s New Leader, Christine Lagarde

Christine Lagarde, France’s finance minister, secured the top job at the International Monetary Fund — the first woman to ever do so. She’ll fill a spot vacated by former managing director Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was arrested in May on charges of attempted rape. From the moment Strauss-Kahn was led away in handcuffs, Lagarde was the [...]

Americans Remain Unsure Of Economy’s Future

Nearly two years after the official end of the recession, Americans still remain unconvinced. Consumer confidence has hit an eight-month low, according to a Conference Board report released Tuesday. The group studies how Americans feel about business conditions and the job market. It turns out consumers aren’t feeling so hot about the prospects for the [...]

Farmer’s Market Beating the Heat

Oklahoma State University-OKC’s farmer’s market continues having two markets a week despite high temperatures.

Oklahoma’s Hot Temperatures Result of Drought

Oklahoma’s drought has brought record-breaking highs and nighttime highs this June.

You May Be Ready For A Baby, But Is Your Body?

With 6.8 billion people on the planet and hundreds of thousands of babies born every day, pregnancy might seem like a cinch. But the road to conception can be bumpy for many women. Dr. Kirstiaan Nevin is an obstetrician/gynecologist with Reiter, Hill, Johnson and Nevin in Washington, D.C., and sees a lot of women who [...]

Texas Legislature Approves Anti-Pat-Down Bill

Today both the Texas House and Senate approved a bill that prohibits invasive airport security pat-downs. The version of the bill that passed in the Senate is watered-down to include changes that the Texas attorney general’s office said should be made in order to ease the bill’s constitutional issues. As we reported, Texas lawmakers had [...]

Five Reasons Microsoft Office 365 Should Be Taken Seriously

Kicking sand at Microsoft is such a longstanding tradition that it’s hardly worth mentioning. Still, the sand has been stirred again by today’s rollout of Office 365, a cloud-based suite of business apps. The product takes square aim at Google Apps, and Google already has applied its boots to the beach. “You can’t just take [...]

Home Sick Home? Architect Goes After Tuberculosis In Haiti

When it comes to beating tuberculosis, the focus is usually on better drugs and tests and, maybe someday, a vaccine. But what about building better homes for people at risk of catching the infection? That’s what Peter Williams, a Jamaican-born architect and a visiting scholar in the Healthy Infrastructure Research Centre at the University College [...]