816 Number of Nobel Laureates named between 1901 and 2008 62 Number of Laureates in Economic Sciences named since the price was created in 1968 ...more

October 12, 2009

The school day wouldn't start for another hour at Schrader Elementary, but already seven students were signing onto computers in an effort to learn a little more about how they fit into the global scheme of things. ...more

January 17, 2009

A federal judge has signed an order saying investors who may have been duped in one of Wall Street's biggest frauds need the protection of the Securities Investor Protection Act. ...more

December 16, 2008

Sister Emmanuelle, a nun who lived for years among scavengers in Cairo's slums and who has been compared to Mother Teresa for her fight to defend the rights of the poor, died Monday at age 99. ...more

October 21, 2008

The word "earmark" conjures up images of an Alaskan bridge to nowhere and a billion-dollar Boston tunnel mired in muck. But properly done, earmarks create powerful returns on investment. ...more

September 1, 2008

Nobel laureate Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, the reclusive icon of the Russian intelligentsia and chronicler of Communist repression, died Sunday. He was 89. ...more

August 4, 2008

I was both puzzled and horrified when I listened to Nobel laureate Al Gore blatantly lie about global warming. ...more

July 30, 2008

A normal U.S. economy is likely to look a lot different, and worse, after the credit crisis is over and financial markets settle down. ...more

May 20, 2008

Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating solutions to problems they created in the first place. ...more

May 19, 2008

Nobel laureate Al Gore said Thursday that the United States is "principally responsible" for blocking progress at the U.N. climate conference, and European nations threatened to boycott U.S.-led climate talks next month unless Washington compromises on emissions reductions. ...more

December 14, 2007