US Presidential Candidates Court Youth Vote While Republicans convened in Tampa Wednesday, President Obama spoke to cheering students at the University of Virginia. Don't just chant, you got to vote! he said. Polls show Obama with an advantage among...
California Earthquake Swarm Rattle Nerves, Teaches Lesson Workers in Brawley repair quake damage, as scientists at the California Institute of Technology learn more about the network of fault-lines beneath the desert community. Since Sunday more than...
US Unions See Wages Fall Tom Lee is a former president of the American Federation of Musicians, the largest musicians' union in the world. He began his career with the U.S. Marine Corps Band and played many performances at the White House. Although u...
Small-Scale Irrigation Nets Large-Scale Payoff A new study shows small-scale irrigation systems could boost farmers incomes by billions of dollars in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The research was discussed at the World Water Week conference in...
Independent Cambodian Radio Station Runs Without Jailed Owner A few days a week, radio station owner Mam Sonando would go on air to talk to callers. Now, the station and its listeners have to do without him, as he sits in prison across town. The DJ w...
Egyptian President's Iran Trip Signals New Priorities Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi goes to Iran Thursday, the first visit by an Egyptian leader since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. Morsi's trip breaks an alienation dating back to Egypt's recogni...
American Pediatrics Group Cites Benefits Of Male Circumcision In many African countries, adult men are getting circumcised to stop the spread of HIV. That's because research shows that male circumcision can protect both men and their female partners...
Scandals and Mistakes Influence US Political Campaigns Just as Republicans were preparing to introduce Mitt Romney to the nation, a little known U.S. Senate candidate sparked a controversy. Congressman Todd Akin was asked if abortion should be allowe...
Patriotism, High Ideals Motivate Many Convention Delegates Ruth Hinebaugh Umbel, a delegate from Maryland at the Republican National Convention, supports nominee Mitt Romney. She has been politically active for more than five decades, but this is her...
Republicans Face Tough Job Winning Hispanic Votes The Republican convention's host city of Tampa is home to a well-established Hispanic community, with Cuban cigar shops and restaurants that attract delegates and even a U.S. senator. They may enjoy t...
Searching for Animal Disease Transmission Researchers are not waiting for the next new disease to emerge. Theyre studying our near and distant primate relatives to try to prevent future epidemics. HIV/AIDS is a well-known zoonotic disease, an illness...
Experts Call for Action as Europe's Crisis Festers Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has been holding another round of meetings with key European leaders like German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Samaras wants more time to implement painful reforms. A...
Ice Age Melt Offers Future Climate Clues University of Wisconsin geologist Anders Carlson studies ice sheet melt from land and ocean sediment cores. His study describes what prehistoric Earth was like in North America and Northern Europe some 140,000...
Officials Say New Orleans is Better Protected This Time Around Seven years ago, Hurricane Katrina hammered the U.S. Gulf Coast with a storm surge eight and a half meters high and winds that blew apart buildings. The storm overwhelmed the levees that...
Corn Harvest Comes Early for Midwest Farmers The only thing farmer Bruce Nation sees in his cornfields outside Taylorville, Illinois, is heartache. This stuff is depressing here. This is hard to look at for me, he said. Most of the ears of corn that...
