While Burmas Chinese Businesses Thrive, Competition Worries Locals Burmas political reforms have dominated headlines in the past year, but there is also high anticipation about a series of economic reforms. The measures could mean more opportunities...
Gorbachev's Domestic Reforms Led to End of Soviet Union December marks the 20th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was the internal reforms of Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, that contributed to the demise of the Soviet Un...
Gold Lining for France's Economic Clouds Before another summit of European leaders, eurozone countries have been warned they may face a credit downgrade without a decisive agreement to save the euro. The debt crisis is casting a long shadow as France...
NHTSA Opens Probe into Chevrolet Volt Fire Federal safety officials are looking into battery-related fires in General Motors' new electric-powered Chevrolet Volt automobile. The fires occurred after the officials crash-tested the vehicle. One of the...
Quilters Form Bonds As They Stitch Their Stories Now that winter has arrived in most parts of the United States, many beds are covered with quilts that help to keep people warm at night. Many quilts feature decorative stitching and some are so elabor...
Hundreds of Unemployed Storm Capitol Hill to Meet with Congress Thousands of Occupy Congress activists have decended on Washington this week to press their agenda of jobs and a fair economy for all. The three days of protests and events was kicked of...
US Communities Rally For High School Football Football, the American form of the sport, is an iconic part of American high school life, especially in small towns, like Macomb, Illinois, and everyone gets involved. Musicians cheer the players. And it'...
Ethics Get Workout in College Bowl Game 美国大学橄榄球比赛重视道德培养 College football teams are preparing for postseason play in events such as the venerable Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, and Orange Bowl. 大学足球队正在为季后赛的玫...
Putting Planet First in Climate Change Talks 气候变化会议把关爱地球放在首位 At the U.N. climate change conference in Durban, South Africa, theres a call to view the issue as a moral imperative. The man whos called South Africas green b...
US High School Students Shine in Prestigious Science Competition Twenty U.S. high school students were in Washington, D.C., this week squaring off in one of the nations premier science research contests. The prize: a half million dollars in college s...
Report: Migrants Often Scapegoats for Societys Problems A new report says few areas of public policy are subject to greater bias, polarization and political debate than migration. The International Organization for Migration, IOM, calls it one of the...
New Malaria Strain Difficult to Treat Declining malaria deaths in Africa and progress toward an effective malaria vaccine are raising hopes the disease will soon be eradicated worldwide. But researchers at the annual meeting of the American Society o...
Author Struggles to Find Happy Ending in 'Young Adult' Writer Diablo Cody and Director Jason Reitman, who made the 2007 hit Juno, reunite for a new comedy that tests the old saying you can't go home again. Here's a look at Young Adult . MATT What are...
In Colorado, Solar Industry Faces Challenges Colorado's San Luis Valley, an alpine desert, is rapidly becoming a leading producer of solar energy in the United States. The sun shines more than 340 days a year in the San Luis Valley. So the solar indu...
70th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor Approaches On Dec. 7, 1941, the Imperial Japanese Navy staged a surprise attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor. Five U.S. battleships sank or were severely damaged, several hundred warplanes were destroyed and...
