Excerpts from a recent editorial in a newspaper in the United States: The Boston Globe, on the Christmas terrorism attempt: ...more

January 5, 2010

The final bell for the week was about to ring at Beth Shields Middle School as eighth-grader Hope Witsell signed a contract promising not to harm herself. ...more

January 3, 2010

So far, director's deals confined to one vendor. ...more

December 22, 2009

For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show. ...more

November 15, 2009

Verizon telephone customers could see a few free dollars show up in their monthly phone bills soon as atonement for past breakdowns in phone service. ...more

November 4, 2009

specifically, highly learned information such as your vocabulary and your memory of how to do things. Other parts of your mind? Maybe not so much. But the following two lapses are easy to help. Here's how. ...more

October 24, 2009

This week Tampa Sports Authority Executive Director Henry Saavedra resigned under pressure from the TSA board. ...more

March 20, 2009

On "Alright, Still," her 2006 debut, Lily Allen had most of us at the first F-bomb, the rest when she rhymed "Tesco" with "al fresco." Cute and cheeky, smart and less shallow than she might have first appeared, Allen harked back to The Specials and early Blur. Cuts such as "LDN" candy-coated cynical sentiments in sweet, bouncy pop. ...more

February 26, 2009

Bertrand Berry got his first good jolt of the Cardinals fever that is sweeping through the Arizona desert earlier this week when he ventured out to a local gym for a quick workout. ...more

January 16, 2009

The emergence and technological advances of the cell phone industry has caused people to desert landline phones for years. ...more

December 8, 2008