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Posted on: Saturday, 21 November 2009, 13:45 CST WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A regional initiative launched in the 1990s to eliminate onchocerciasis (river blindness) in the Americas has substantially reduced...
Visitors to America might have noticed the television ads urging us to buy gold. All of this means that investors do not believe that President Barack Obama will respond to the enormous pressure put on him during his visit to...
What city contributed most to the making of the modern world? The Paris of the Enlightenment and then of Napoleon, pioneer of mass armies and nationalist statism? London, seat of parliamentary democracy and center of finance?...
Jesse Jackson versus Artur Davis. When Alabama Congressman Artur Davis voted against the health-care bill that passed the House earlier this month, he probably expected some grief from fellow Democrats. But he couldn't have...
Re: “Obama-Clinton Middle East strategy is a disaster” (Joel Brinkley column, 11-18). Successive American presidents since Jimmy Carter have had little success in bringing about peace in Palestine (i.e., Israel, the West Bank...
The late Mayor Abe Beame must be rolling in his grave after being the butt of jokes at his successor Ed Koch's 85th-birthday party at the St. Regis. James Gill, Koch's law partner at Bryan Cave, said of Beame, "Despite the fact...
Two days after Iranian students overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking 66 Americans hostage 30 years ago this month, Pentagon brass met in a secret briefing room called "The Tank" to consider rescue options.
Chiang Mai, Nov 21st, 2009 (WAM): Former US President Jimmy Carter hailed the role played by the volunteers of Takatof International Volunteering Programme in supporting the Habitat for Humanity's annual Jimmy and Rosalynn...
President Obama's job-approval rating has slipped below 50% in the Gallup Tracking Poll for the first time in his presidency, pulled down by concerns about the economy, federal spending and health care legislation. In daily...
An anonymous reader writes "I'm as much of a Linux fanboy as anyone else, but I've never thought of anything in computing as being worth a Nobel Peace Prize. Apparently, there are those who take global collaboration seriously,...
