US President Chosen by Electors, Not Popular Vote Americans vote for their next president on November 6. But the real presidential election takes place on December 17, and only 538 people are involved. This small group is called the Electoral College...
Pakistan's Textile Industry Faces Challenges At the M.K. Sons factory in Faisalabad, which produces colorful printed fabrics for sale by U.S. retail giants like Walmart and Target, chief executive Rana Javed Akhtar insists that unlike the Karachi fac...
Maryland Man Is Real Hero Behind 'Argo' On Nov. 4, 1979, U.S. diplomats did not anticipate the takeover of their embassy, but 52 of them were taken hostage. Six escaped. Argo focuses on the clandestine CIA operation to rescue those six diplomats. Whi...
Data Boosts US Economic Outlook An improving job picture, better than expected earnings on Wall Street and signs of recovery in the troubled housing market are helping to lift American consumer confidence. Many opened their wallets in September, boos...
Cambodian-Americans Mourn Death of Former King Sihanouk Buddhist monks say a prayer for the soul of the late Cambodian King Norodom Sihanouk. Mourners in the Washington area have been stopping by a Cambodian Buddhist temple to pay respects since his...
Syrian Refugee Children Welcomed in Lebanese Schools It is Friday afternoon at Averroes college in Taalabaya, Lebanon and these children are filing out, getting picked up by their parents or boarding buses to go home for the weekend. But just a half...
Irrigation Pioneer Wins World Food Prize Hillels orchards near his home in Israel are innovation in action. Each tree row is fed by plastic tubes which drip water at the base of the tree. Irrigating drop by drop - called drip irrigation - has transfo...
Polio Victim Searches for Love in 'The Sessions' In the movie and in real life, Mark O'Brien contracted polio when he was six years old. Although he was paralyzed from the neck down, he went on to graduate from university and have a career as a write...
Plagiarism Has Consequences in 'The Words' Do you think you can just steal another man's life and expect there be no price to pay? The film tells the stories of three men whose connection is on the pages of a novel. Rory is the would-be author played...
West Nile Surge Keeps Exterminator Busy Four years ago, the mosquitoes around Virginia resident Stephanie Samples house and neighborhood were voracious. They would get into the car and before you could shut the car doors, Sample says. We would be dri...
Liberias CDC Discusses Institutional Building and Reconciliation Liberias Congress for Democratic Change (CDC), considered the countrys main opposition political party, has lost the last two presidential elections. It has been criticized as lacking t...
Initiative Empowers Rural Women October 15th is International Day of Rural Women. The United Nations says rural women play a critical role in development, food security and eradicating poverty. Four U.N. agencies recently launched a five year initiat...
Syrian Refugees Resented by Some in Turkey Antakya, a small city near Turkey's border with Syria. Some residents recently protested against Syrian refugees here and some have asked police to remove them from their neighborhoods. Syria's civil war has...
Plants Weaken Without Insects Bugging Them Evolutionary pressures The new study examines how insects and plants are still co-evolving. Anurag Agrawal studies evolution in real-time. The Cornell University professor of ecology and evolutionary biology...
Social Media Transforms Debate Viewership As she gears up for this years election, Center College student Kelly Bolton, who's on the campus of the vice presidential debate, is getting political updates not from television or traditional news sources,...
