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Mary Ivey didn't have a family history of breast cancer or a genetic mutation putting her at high risk for the disease. At 37, she was too young for an annual mammogram. But one day in March, she did a routine self-exam, as her...
New Moon opening night is in two weeks in Israel. But signs of a fan base for supernatural tales are few. By Jerusalem - For every rule there is an exception – and in the case of the Twilight series, it's the Israeli fan base....
As a citizen, a father and a physicist, climate change tops my list of worries. As chief executive of the Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG), one of the country's largest energy companies, I'm also finding it to be a...
LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS are almost always right to try to shield a criminal investigation from outside interference. Public pretrial statements by witnesses, for example, could be used by others to shape their testimony;...
As the U.N. climate-change conference in Copenhagen approaches, we are in a race between political tipping points and natural ones. Can we cut carbon emissions fast enough to keep the melting of the Greenland ice sheet from...
IT'S A SHAME that it has taken accidents, deaths and injuries for the federal government to wake up to the danger posed by inadequate, and in some cases nonexistent, oversight of many or most subway and light-rail systems...
Saturday, November 21, 2009 Regarding the four-column photo that appeared with the Nov. 18 front-page article "In Obama's China trip, a stark contrast with the past": Oh, the uncontrollable curiosity in the Chinese soldiers'...
NEW YORK (AP) — Looking for inspiration for your next trip? The 2010 edition of Travel + Leisure's 100 Greatest Trips shows the upscale magazine's editors suggesting some surprisingly down-to-earth destinations, such as the...
BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese soldiers from the southern boomtown of Guangzhou who are newly assigned to Tibet will get a "special allowance" of up to 160,000 yuan ($23,440) for serving there, a local newspaper reported on Saturday.
Apple's wireless carrier in China on Friday expressed its high expectations for the iPhone despite the relatively low sales since its debut, hoping the handset to attract 10 percent of China's 3G users in the in the next three...
