Used Lab Equipment Finds A Second Home Overseas

Science is an expensive endeavor. Labs in the U.S. can easily spend millions of dollars each year on equipment, chemicals and supplies alone. But for scientists in the developing world, these costs are often prohibitive. That’s where a clever idea has made all the difference. In a Harvard Medical School corridor on a rainy Saturday [...]

Drug Violence Swamps A Once Peaceful Mexican City

In the latest twist to Mexico’s drug wars, a new group has vowed to launch a paramilitary offensive against a leading drug cartel in Veracruz, a city that has become a flashpoint in the violence. Over the last month more than 100 bodies have been strewn around the city, which is one of Mexico’s largest [...]

Army Names First Black Woman As Two-Star General

The Army has appointed its first black female two-star general. Wisconsin native Marcia Anderson was promoted after a military career that spans more than three decades. And she says she hopes her achievement inspires young service members to become leaders. A Historic Promotion Anderson’s civilian job is clerk of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Madison, [...]

Pressure Is On For House GOP Freshman To Fundraise

Last month, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised almost double what its Republican counterpart took in despite that the GOP holds the majority in the House. One group of Republicans that seems to be having a tough go of it is that huge class of freshman Republicans who took 2010 by storm. “Well, I did [...]

Are Crackdowns A Turning Point For Occupy Protests?

Police crackdowns in Atlanta and Oakland, Calif., to disperse protests affiliated with the Occupy Wall Street movement could mark a turning point in the tactics of both the demonstrators and the authorities dealing with them, experts say. Oakland police equipped with riot gear fired tear gas and, according to demonstrators, used rubber bullets and flash [...]

New Hope for Kids with Fragile X

Researchers at Children’s Hospital in Oklahoma City are looking for men and boys with a rare genetic disease known as Fragile X- for a new treatment program.

Pat Robertson Decries Social Cons For Pushing GOP Candidates To Extremes

You never know what televangelist Pat Robertson is going to say. But you can rest assured that he will never go too long before saying something that leaves many people with their jaws dropped. Just weeks after he scandalized many co-religionists by saying it was acceptable for Christians to divorce spouses with Alzheimer’s Disease, the [...]

Herman Cain Leads Mitt Romney In Ohio But GOP Field Trails Obama

By the time Ohio’s 2012 Republican presidential primary rolls around in June, the GOP nominee is likely to have been long decided. And while it’s still seems unlikely that Herman Cain will be that nominee given his campaign’s relative lack of money and ground troops, you can’t ignore the former Godfather Pizza CEO’s five percentage [...]

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Travel Photography: An Eastward Eye

At first glance, it’s hard to tell when these photos were taken. If you notice the Polaroid border, you’re getting warmer — and of course the captions give it away. Martin Westlake has a knack for capturing something timeless. A photo spread in Audubon Magazine jumped out at me recently. Maybe it was the filmic [...]