Doctor’s Exhibit Paints Picture Of War’s Impact

After a decade of war in Iraq and Afghanistan, thousands of wounded veterans return home needing treatment and rehabilitation. Their injuries, both physical and mental, have an emotional impact on their caregivers. And Dr. Bill Blahd, a doctor at a VA hospital in Idaho, has depicted the daily trauma he sees in a powerful art [...]

Obama Picks Chief For Consumer Agency

President Obama will nominate a former Ohio attorney general to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. White House and administration sources say Obama plans to announce Monday the nomination of Richard Cordray, the consumer bureau’s current chief of enforcement. Cordray, a Democrat from Ohio, was the state’s attorney general until losing his re-election bid [...]

Guts, Goals And Luck Will Win The World Cup

The United States plays in the finals of the women’s World Cup soccer championship against Japan Sunday afternoon. As thrilling as the ride has been so far, the women on the team know that a great journey needs a great ending. A short while before the World Cup tournament began, U.S. striker Abby Wambach was [...]

Talking About ‘Harry Potter’ From Under A Nice, Warm Blanket

When I say that Harry Potter’s latest movie took me back to my childhood, I don’t mean it in quite the way most people would. Oh sure, watching the eighth Potter movie, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, took me back in the conventional sense. At this point in my career, I don’t [...]

Students Get Up Close And Personal With Rare Books

Three stories underground, in the University of Virginia’s main library, 60 librarians, collectors, scholars and other bibliophiles divide into small groups. They’re barely breathing as they lean over texts that have been around for centuries, like the 1497 Latin edition of Sebastian Brant’s The Ship of Fools. Staff members like Barbara Heritage shuttle from room [...]

News International Ex-Head Brooks Reported Arrested

British police investigating phone hacking and police bribery by the defunct tabloid News of the World have arrested a 10th person in the case Sunday, a 43-year-old woman. Sky News and other British media are reporting the woman is Rebekah Brooks, who stepped down Friday as head of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspapers. Police would not [...]

No Stranger To Spaceships, N.M. Builds A Spaceport

NASA’s shuttle program ends when Atlantis comes back to Earth this week. It’s not the end of American space exploration, however; it’s the beginning of a new phase in commercial space travel. For now, American astronauts will be hitching rides to the International Space Station on Russian Soyuz capsules. NASA and President Obama hope that [...]

Consumers’ Personal Debt Ceilings On The Rise Again

While Congress has been debating ways to lower the nation’s debt ceiling, consumers have been quietly raising their own debt ceilings. Federal Reserve data show consumer debt has begun ticking up again after dropping during the recession. In the years just before the financial crisis hit in 2008, Americans were borrowing more and more. In [...]

Retailers Won’t Wait For Their Back-To-School Boost

Believe it or not, the back-to-school shopping season has officially begun. For retailers, it’s the second “most wonderful time of the year” next to the holiday shopping season. But analysts say low consumer confidence means spending this summer will probably be lackluster. Too Soon For Parents, But Not For Retailers The first day of class [...]

Fibonacci’s ‘Numbers’: The Man Behind The Math

Though generations of schoolchildren have cursed arithmetic, the world was a much more inconvenient place without it. Before the advent of modern arithmetic in the 13th century, basic calculations required a physical abacus. But then came a young Italian mathematician named Leonardo da Pisa — no relation to da Vinci — who, in 1202, published [...]