Jul 4, 2008 Do you ever get the feeling that people running things --- I don't mean just political leaders, politics seems to poison everything these days --- but our corporate leaders, religious leaders, people who run our universities, our media, you name it --- don't seem to know what they're doing any more? |
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Jul 4, 2008 I'm not a bit surprised to hear that a study done for the Leadership Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government finds that most of our leaders in most walks of life for one reason or another have trouble leading. |
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Jul 4, 2008 We've told you about geological evidence that global warming is a cyclical phenomenon that occurs repeatedly every 150,000 years or so, in response to variances in the Earth's orbit around the Sun. |
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Jul 4, 2008 When you get to be certain age, you wonder whether doing all the things people tell you ought to be or ought not be doing --- exercising, not drinking too much alcohol, eating enough fruits and vegetables and not smoking --- really will extend your life any, and if so by how much. |
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Jul 3, 2008 General Motors' stock fell a 1.77 yesterday. It closed at $9.88 a share, first time it's been below 10 dollars since 1954 --- 54 years ago. The problem, analysts say, is cash. |
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Jul 3, 2008 There's been speculation that Israel might be preparing to attack Iran's nuclear facilities. But at the UN yesterday, Iran's foreign minister dismissed that possibility when asked by Lara Logan... |
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Jul 3, 2008 In a hospital emergency room, time is of the essence - everybody knows that. The reason they call it an "emergency room" is that by definition, it's there to deal with emergencies - minutes, even seconds, count in some cases. |
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Jul 3, 2008 The blackest material on Earth has been a nickel phosphorus alloy. |
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Jul 2, 2008 You would not want to be in the car or truck business right now. For obvious reasons, the public is clearly not in a car or truck buying mood. |
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Jul 2, 2008 Any hopes for a deal under which Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe might agree to new elections or to peacefully share power with his top opponent have been squelched at a summit meeting of African leaders at Sharm El Sheik in Egypt. |
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Jul 2, 2008 Electric utilities will be able before long to get power at the times of day when they need it most, from solar energy stored in molten salt |
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Jul 2, 2008 Did you get up this morning on the wrong side of the bed? Is there a wrong side of the bed to get out of bed on? |
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Jul 1, 2008 This is the week of the Fourth of July
and that must be why,
I assume, the question arises
in different disguises
of who's more patriotic than whom. |
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Jul 1, 2008 Six years ago, as part of a study partly funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, 36 adult men and women volunteers were given an illegal psychedelic drug, called psilocybin, in a lab at Johns Hopkins University. |
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Jul 1, 2008 Did you realize that the United States has been experiencing something of a "baby boomlet" - bucking the trend in wealthy industrialized nations, especially in Europe. |
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Jul 1, 2008 Researchers have found that a rare genetic variation on a particular chromosome, Chromosome 16, dramatically raises the risk of developing a certain kind of autism. |
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Jun 30, 2008 With the year about half over, stock market values as measured by the Dow Jones Industrial Average are down more than 14% from what they were six months ago. Whatever gains had been made since September of 2006 have been erased. |
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Jun 30, 2008 One of the last experiments that cancer researcher Dr. Judah Folkman was overseeing when he died in January was an improvement in what he called angiogenesis therapy: starving tumors by preventing them from getting the blood they need. |
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Jun 30, 2008 The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently issued a new regulation allowing employers to establish two classes of retirees. Those under 65 years of age can get more comprehensive health benefits than those 65 or older. In fact, under this regulation, for the older group the companies can drop health benefits altogether. |
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Jun 30, 2008 Two separate studies --- one from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland reported in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine, and another from University College London published in the American Journal of Epidemiology --- say that neurotic people who worry a lot are more likely to die of cardiovascular disease. |
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Jun 27, 2008 Suppose we start with the good news about Wall Street. OK, how about this: there's an excellent chance you won't owe capital gains taxes next year --- there! |
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Jun 27, 2008 The Supreme Court has ruled the Second Amendment means just what it appears to mean --- and neither Washington, DC nor any other city or state can make it impossible for a law abiding citizen to buy a gun for the purposes of hunting or self-defense --- period, end of debate. |
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Jun 27, 2008 According to a new survey by Consumer Reports, we are about 20 cents a gallon away from the end of the traffic jam. |
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Jun 27, 2008 The laws of economics are not like the laws of Congress or laws of the church. You don't go to jail or go to Hell for breaking them. |
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Jun 26, 2008 On the one hand, we're being told there's a good chance we're in a recession. At the same time, higher prices for gas and food are causing price increases which would lead to inflation. |
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Jun 26, 2008 The conventional wisdom is that Exxon Mobil won big. But did it? |
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Jun 26, 2008 Most of the news from Afghanistan has been bad lately. But there is one unequivocal success. A bumper crop of opium poppies -- in fact, it's the largest crop in the world. |
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Jun 26, 2008 Ninety percent of the ice in the world is contained in the vast miles-deep ice sheets of Antarctica that seemed relatively protected from global warming. The only melting has been limited to the peninsula that juts out toward the tip of South America. But now, it's become apparent. |
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Jun 25, 2008 For everybody who was lucky enough to sell their house at the top of the market, there was someone who bought it. |
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Jun 25, 2008 Even though last year a National Intelligence Estimate said Iran had halted its nuclear program in 2003, there are indications that either the United States or Israel are now seriously considering the use of military force ... just to make sure. |
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Jun 25, 2008 I've been waiting for the day when the CDC issues some health statistics that will finally make us feel good about ourselves. And today ... is not going to be that day. |
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Jun 25, 2008 Some say the most exciting development in science and engineering is nanotechnology, creating and working with materials that are only one nanometer wide - that's one billionth of the width of a meter. A human hair is only 80,000 nanometers across. |
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Jun 24, 2008 So who are these oil speculators, and what do they want? And are they good, or are they evil? |
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Jun 24, 2008 Just as gas prices made a lot of us into bus riders, it looks like food prices are about to make a lot of us into vegetarians. |
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Jun 24, 2008 Those of you who thought that the recent spate of earthquakes, tornadoes and floods was God's way of telling us he's tired of being ignored ... you can relax. |
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Jun 24, 2008 Do you have a long commute? More than an hour and a half each way is considered an "extreme commute." If you could greatly reduce the amount of time you spend each day getting to work in the morning and getting back home again, would you? |
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Jun 23, 2008 Under pressure from customers --- mainly, us --- Saudi Arabia has announced it will pump more oil this summer. And yet... |
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Jun 23, 2008 A colleague of mine calls the Obama-McCain contest a choice between your wise old grandfather or your cool uncle. |
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Jun 23, 2008 NASA's Phoenix Mars probe continues to dig, looking for conclusive evidence of ice ... but we know what scientists would really like to find, don't we? |
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