


Whenever most people hear about the subject of childhood obesity, they tend to get pessimistic about it because they feel the next generation is too far gone to do anything about it. It reminds me of what has happened in high schools over the past ...
Read more...In 1865, nearly a century and a half ago, French science fiction author Jules Verne penned a tale about a remarkable voyage titled “From the Earth to the Moon.” In his story, members of a Baltimore gun club constructed an enormous “columbiad ...
Read more...Swish, thunk, squeak. What's that unfamiliar sound reverberating through your head? Oddly familiar, yet can't quite place it? That's OK. Take your time. Clear out the oofs, ughs and plunks still clouding your brain from college football season. We ...
Read more...George Stephanopoulos interviewed Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni briefly today on Israel's decision to reject international calls for a 48 hour cease-fire . Livni said that a cease-fire "doesn't serve Israel" because Hamas will "abuse any kind ...
Read more...Please register to gain free access to WSJ tools. An account already exists for the email address entered. The former Senator who will be Obama’s Secretary of Health and Human Services shares a lot of his new boss’s views. But in his recent book ...
Read more...AGELL, Charlotte . Shift . 230p. CIP. Holt/Christy Ottaviano Bks. 2008. Tr $16.95. ISBN 978-0-8050-7810-7 . LC 2007046942. Gr 7–9— Adrian Havoc, 15, lives in an urban hotbox in the partially post-nuclear United Christian States, where the end of ...
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