Past Serves as Lesson in Sustainable Fishing Protect the catch While some of the steps the ancient Hawaiians took to protect their catch are extreme by todays standards, conservation experts would find many of them familiar. When the first Europeans...
American Seeks World Bank's Top Job They have more than doubled the number of people on treatment in the last 18 months, said Kim. This is movement in the area of HIV/AIDS the like of which weve never seen before. Over the course of his career, Jim Y...
US Neighborhood Watch Volunteers Help Protect Communities Baruti Jahi, a longtime Washington resident and father, knows he can't take his family's safety for granted. I'm up at four in the morning looking out my window because my dog is barking, and...
Documentary Examines The Ordeal of Bullied Children Tyler Long was a happy little boy. But at 17, he committed suicide because he was bullied at school, says his father David Long. We had heard that he had his head shoved into a wall locker. So kids...
Economic Downturn Points to Uncertain Future in Afghanistan Kabuls upscale Wazir Akhbar Khan district has long been home to foreign aid groups and the countrys wealthiest officials. Now, it is slowly emptying, as foreigners close down their operation...
In Thailands South, New Worries After Latest Bombing A newborn boy clings to life in a Thai hospital as his mother, Nisachon Kotchakun. Two-month-old Kanapat Intara Suwan is the youngest victim of the late March attack by suspected separatists in sou...
Colombian Competes for World Bank Presidency International experience Jose Antonio Ocampo won praise as the head of Colombias Ministries of Finance, and Agriculture and as chief of its central bank, for boosting economic growth and investment. Ocampo...
Pinterest Website Draws Millions of Women Elizabeth Fraser likes to look at photos of dogs on Pinterest. Those of us who dont really have kids often will feel like our pets are our children, Fraser explains, and I think its really cute when people ha...
Militant Cleric Mocks US Bounty The 2008 terrorist bombing of an Indian hotel in Mumbai's financial district killed 166 people, including six Americans. The Pakistani-based militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba was allegedly behind the attack. Speaking publ...
Overcoming Fear of Vaccinations A new study says fear or complacency about vaccinations can allow preventable diseases such as polio, measles and whooping cough to spread. Scientists say preventing vaccine scares should be part of global immunization...
West African-American Band Creates 'Afro-High' in US Togolese native Serge Massama Dogo does a microphone check as the multinational and multisound Elikeh band prepares to practice. The band is about to release a new album called Between Two Worlds....
Susan Stockdale's Books on Animals and Their Habitats Have Won Awards Ava Coggin is being homeschooled. She loves when her mother reads to her - especially Bring on the Birds It's an award winning picutre book about animals, written and illustrated b...
Study: Giving Local Fishermen Control Prevents Overfishing Exponential decay Tropical coral reefs are fertile fishing grounds for some 200 million small-scale fishers around the world. But many of these reefs are in decline. Tim McClanahan with the W...
From Autos to Apparel: Michigan Broadens its Economic Base TD Industrial Coverings in Sterling Heights, Michigan, uses industrial sewing equipment to make nylon coverings for the robots used in auto assembly plants. But when the three major American...
Civil Society Group Opposes US Aid Waiver for Egypt Secretary of State Hillary Clinton approved the aid based on national security interests, but says that in no way affects Washington's resolve to watch closely how Egyptian leaders treat civil socie...
