US Security Vigilant for Super Bowl A large parking lot, mostly out of view to the public, was the scrimmage line [the field of play] for the team protecting Super Bowl football fans. Agents like Brian Bell from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection...
US: Iran Keeping Open Option to Develop Nuclear Weapons Concern continues to mount over Irans nuclear program, as tensions between Western nations and Tehran are escalating. Tehran says its nuclear plants are used for peaceful energy production. But...
African American TV Pioneer Exposed Audiences to Black Culture I had a burning desire to see black people presented on television in a positive light, said Cornelius. Cornelius created Soul Train in 1970, with just $400. He hosted the hugely popular...
Harrowing Minnesota Race Tests Endurance Last year, overnight temperatures plummeted to minus 31 degress Celsius. The year before, minus 37. That year, cyclist Jason Buffington saw one of his friends - a fellow racer - who'd stopped. I came up on Cha...
Genetically-Modified Papaya Hits Shelves in Japan Rainbow papayas recently went on sale in Japan. They are the only gene-altered fruit on the market today in Japan, a country with strict laws regarding genetically-modified organisms (GMOs). Those law...
Negotiating Medical Aid in Conflict Zones The medical aid group Doctors Without Borders works in many of the worlds hot spots, including Somalia, Afghanistan and the Palestinian Territories. However, humanitarian assistance often depends on delicate...
Latina Playwright Josefina Lopez Tells Immigrant Stories Josefina Lopez speaks with actor Rene Rivera about his one-man play. Called The King of the Desert, it deals with his struggles growing up in a barrio, or ghetto, in Texas near the U.S. border...
Facebook To Raise $5 Billion From Initial Public Offering With more than 800 million users worldwide, Facebook is second only to Google as the most visited website on the Internet. But with plans to raise an initial $5 billion from its first IPO, ana...
New App Aims to Fight Poverty A pilot project gets underway soon to test whether mobile phones can be used to help educate the poor. Its estimated three quarters of the worlds poor have access to mobile phones. More and more people are downloading ap...
Artist Gets Laughs by Doing Simple Things the Hard Way It took a complicated series of preposterous and unexpected actions to set up this smashing punch line in a video called The Creamed Egg. Nearly two and a half minutes of mechanical zaniness incl...
US Worker Bees Toil in Cubicles 美国公司白领对办公环境叫苦不迭 Every day, and certainly on Sunday when many newspapers produce a separate comics section, millions of Americans check out the strip called Dilbert, created by cartoonist S...
US Worker Bees Toil in Cubicles 美国公司白领对办公环境叫苦不迭 Every day, and certainly on Sunday when many newspapers produce a separate comics section, millions of Americans check out the strip called Dilbert, created by cartoonist S...
US Urges UN Action Against Syria After meeting with her French and British colleagues in New York, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went before the United Nations Security Council to support Arab League action against Syrian President Bashar a...
Lack of Land Rights Could Lead to Land Rush New studies suggest that weak land rights are fueling a land rush in Africa and elsewhere. The findings say the sell-off of forests and other prime lands to developers could trigger widespread civil unrest....
Different Blood Pressure in Both Arms Linked to Heart Disease Cardiologist Oscar Garfein takes blood pressure readings from both of his patients' arms. That technique saved the life of one of his patients. I found that in one arm, it was very, very l...
