Controversial Cholesterol Pill Vytorin Shows Promise For Kidney Patients

Remember Grandpa Frank? Way back in 2008, the ad above ran in heavy rotation on TV during the heyday of Vytorin, a cholesterol-lowering pill that claimed to fight both genetics and bad habits. Soon after the ad had appeared, oh, say thousands of times across the country, the Food and Drug Administration ordered the company [...]

Sandwich Monday: The Humongous Pork Tenderloin Of Indianapolis

San Francisco has a famous neighborhood called the Tenderloin. And Indianapolis has a famous neighborhood-sized sandwich called the Pork Tenderloin. It’s a gigantic deep-fried piece of pork, hanging over the edges of a bun. We had ours with pickles and mayonnaise. Peter: It’s the traditional sandwich of Indiana, dating from the pioneer days when Hoosiers [...]

High Court Upholds Ruling Ordering Removal Of Crosses In Utah

The United States Supreme Court has let stand a lower court ruling that ordered the removal of 12-foot high crosses placed along highways in Utah to commemorate state troopers killed in the line of duty. The court acted without comment, but Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a 19-page dissent. Starting in 1998, the private Utah Highway [...]

Supreme Court Hears Plea Bargain Cases

The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments Monday in two cases testing whether a lawyer’s mishandling of a plea bargain offer should be sufficient reason for a defendant to get a second chance to accept the offer. Both cases involve defendants who got prison terms much longer than they would have under plea bargains offered by [...]

Kids And Teens See More Ads For Sugary Drinks

From 2008 to 2010, children’s and teens’ exposure to television ads for soda doubled, according to a new report from the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University. And beverage companies targeted black and Hispanic kids more than others in recent ads, the report found. Commercials for Coke and Dr. Pepper products [...]

Experts Doubt Cain’s Response To Harassment Report

Republican presidential front-runner Herman Cain has stumbled before, and on big issues ranging from his position on legal abortion to the effects of his radical flat tax plan on the poor and middle class. But his response to a Politico report that he faced two sexual harassment complaints that were settled with cash payments more [...]

Paranormal Technology: Gadgets For Ghost-Tracking

At an investigation of a supposedly haunted house in a wooded area an hour south of Richmond, Va., called the Edgewood Plantation, one ghost-hunting team recently used its high-tech tools to track down the spirits that always become of interest this time of year. With uneven floorboards and creaky doors, the house is prime real [...]

Entrepreneurship Lessons For The Academic-Minded

The slow pace of job creation has revived interest in getting promising new technologies out of university labs and into the marketplace. At Stanford University, a group of academic researchers from all over the country gathered to take a crash course in how to turn their projects into startup companies. The National Science Foundation screened [...]

In Cuba, A Used Car Is No Bargain

What may be the most expensive Honda Civic in the world can be found in Havana. There’s nothing especially luxurious about the car: It’s a red 2005 model, with 60,000 miles on the odometer. But what is special about this Civic is that there are few like it on the supply side of Cuba’s used [...]

An Afghan Hell On Earth For ‘Darkhorse’ Marines

A year ago, nearly 1,000 U.S. Marine officers and enlisted men of the 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment deployed to restive Helmand province in southern Afghanistan. By the time their tour ended in April 2011, the Marines of the 3/5 — known as “Darkhorse” — suffered the highest casualty rate of any Marine unit during the [...]