'Slum Film Festival' Showcases Urban Stories The festival is a community-based event, featuring films by and about people living in urban slums, screened in the open air. The event allows filmmakers to show their work to residents of the areas where...
Human Impact Muffles Mother Nature's Voice Whether it's the driving rain in a tropical storm, the scream of a mountain gorilla or the jolt of a snow mobile engine against the winter silence, Krause has recorded it all. In his new book, The Great Anim...
9/11 Victims' Families Watch Closely as Guantanamo Hearings Begin The trial will happen far away - in both time and distance - from the destruction of September 11th, 2001. Judi Jackson Reiss lost her 23-year-old son, Josh, in the World Trade Center...
Conventions Loom as Test for US Presidential Candidates Negative ads from both sides blanket the TV airwaves and the candidates are taking it personally. The other side has decided that compromise is a dirty word, President Obama said. And they spend...
Political Conventions Aim to Energize Party Faithful Just like a whistle that starts a soccer match, the conventions signal its time for the real game to begin. This high energy has to carry the U.S. presidential campaign through its final 10 weeks....
Dallas Attacks West Nile Virus by Land, Air The aerial and ground fumigation programs are blanketing around 1,400 square kilometers of the county, but don't target all mosquitoes. Laura McGowan, who works with Clarke, the company contracted to carry...
Raising Money for Rising Temperatures The Green Climate Fund will hold its first board meeting this week (8/23-25). The eventual goal is to raise billions of dollars to help developing countries adapt to climate change. The Green Climate Fund was off...
German Growth Offers Lifeline for Euro As the music booms from his new range of top-end speakers in the testing suite, Dieter Burmester allows himself a little dance. From its headquarters in Berlin, the company that bears his name produces audio equ...
Young Kenyan Artists Face Tough Market At the Kuona Trust, a visual arts center in a Nairobi suburb, artists work out of converted shipping containers. Kuona's mission is to provide opportunities for its artists to produce world-class art in Kenya. S...
Syrian Conflict Gives Kurds New Freedom When Syrian government forces withdrew recently, the Kurdish city of Afrin came under the control of the Kurd's Democratic Union Party, known as the P.Y.D. Afrin has its own checkpoints and flies its own flag....
Two Brothers Wage Media War for Syrian Rebels Its a dangerous trek across the Turkish border into Syria. With the Turkish military patrolling one side and Syrian rebel fighters on the other, the risk of being caught up in the conflict is extremely hi...
Digital Revolution Transforms Comic Books For the past 30 years, Golden Apple Comics in Los Angeles has been selling comic books to adults and children like eight-year-old Evan Cray. I just like holding the pages and reading it, he says. The look of...
Syrians Work to Restore Services Amid War At this makeshift gas station along the roadside in northern Syria, fuel sells for about $2 a liter. It is one of the precious resources the Free Syrian Army is helping to secure. The FSA is organizing Local...
Dallas Continues Spraying in Fight Against West Nile Fever Many people in Dallas continue to work and play outdoors, but they are heeding warnings from health officials to protect themselves. Fifteen-year-old Macias says he has followed the news repo...
New Documentary Revives American Pioneer Music The Little House on the Prairie television series is perhaps the best-known adaption of the Laura Ingalls Wilder stories. The show aired for eight seasons beginning in 1974 and has since been translated...
