Harvard's First Woman President Settles into Role Harvard University is arguably one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1636, it is among the oldest in the United States. In 2007, Harvard named h...
Helper Serum Boosts Effectiveness of Flu Vaccine Vaccines against swine and avian flu can be made more effective by the addition of a helper serum known as an adjuvant. The finding from a new study could let vaccine makers stretch supplies and possib...
Indonesian Documentary Highlights Tribes Fighting Developers and Conservationists A new documentary about a school in a remote rainforest in Indonesia highlights how education is helping indigenous people to stand up for their rights. In addition to...
New Agency Trains Women Leaders in Southern Sudan Among the issues facing women in southern Sudan are high rates of poverty, illiteracy and maternal mortality. Bringing those numbers down by 2015 is the aim of the U.N. Millennium Development Goals, o...
Sustained Irregular Heartbeat Raises Mortality Risk for Middle Aged Women Many doctors see atrial fibrillation (AF), an abnormal heart rhythm, in their elderly patients. But a new study indicates that a surprising number of middle aged women, who are...
Writer Takes Trans-Pacific Journey in New Novel The writer Lisa See takes readers on a trans-Pacific journey in her latest novel, Dreams of Joy. The book is a sequel to See's 2009 novel Shanghai Girls, which tells the story of two sisters, Pearl and...
US Hiring Slows, Unemployment Rate Hits 9.1 The U.S. economy is showing signs of slowing down, adding only 54,000 jobs in May - the smallest increase in eight months. The nation's unemployment rate inched higher last month to 9.1 percent, raising fea...
Reflections on 30 Years of HIV/AIDS The HIV/AIDS epidemic is 30 years old. Nearly 30 million people have died from complications of the disease and more than 33 million are currently living with it. There's a better chance than ever of living a long,...
E coli: Good Bacteria Gone Bad As a major outbreak of a highly toxic strain of E. coli bacteria continues to sicken residents of Europe, medical experts are racing to find the source. E. coli doesn't usually cause any trouble, says University of Minn...
Pacific Northwest Looks to Jump-Start Green Jet Fuel Industry The U.S. Navy's F-18 fighter planes ran test flights last year using jet fuel partially made from plant oils. In May the U.S. Air Force's famed Thunderbirds unit of F-16 fighter/bombers be...
Supersizing the American Dream Home This is a story about something called McMansions, the backlash to McMansions, and the backlash to the backlash about McMansions. McMansions are homes - new and very big homes. The name is borrowed from the super-s...
America's Drive-In Movie Theater Turns 78 This coming Monday marks a nostalgic anniversary in American culture. On June 6, 1933, the world's first drive-in movie theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. By 1950, there were 4,000 of these movies under th...
Split Tribal Allegiances Deepen Yemen's Crisis As battles in Yemen raged Thursday, the deadly fighting in the streets of the capital between forces loyal to President Ali Abdullah Saleh and members his own tribe highlights some deeply personal faultl...
Syrian Opposition Groups Demand President Step Down Syrian opposition groups ended a two-day meeting in Turkey on Thursday with the demand that President Bashar al-Assad step down. Opposition activists are also calling for protests nationwide Friday,...
Turkish Elections Marred by Sex Scandal The Turkish general election has become known as the campaign of Sex, Lies and Videotape. The reaction to the release on the Internet of explicit sex videos appearing to implicate senior members of the National...
