Eleven long-finned pilot whales were returned to sea after surviving a mass stranding on a remote southwest Australian beach, but they appeared disoriented and were trying to return to shore, an official said. The animals were trucked overland to a b...
Although The Reader costars gifted Ralph Fiennes and also features a young actor named David Kross, it is Kate Winslet's haunting performance that gives the film its greatest success. The narrator is Michael Berg, introduced in the Germany of 1995 as...
Dear Annie: My husband's job requires him to travel several days during the week. We have two teenage daughters still at home. I work a 40-hour week. I look forward to not being the cook and chauffeur on the weekends, but my husband, who enjoys cooki...
Some methods of preserving food are easy to understand. For example, it's easy to see that freezing your food, or packing it in salt, would make it inhospitable to the microbes which would otherwise cause it to spoil. You might wonder, however, about...
If you've ever driven on a highway during a heavy rain, you know about the danger of skidding. This waterskiing on the road is technically called hydroplaning, and it happens when water comes between the road and your tires, causing you to lose tract...
It's pretty easy to guess what most of your food is made of. The meat in your hamburger probably came from a cow, the bun was made from grain, the ketchup from tomatoes, and so on. There is one kind of food, however, that might have you guessing anim...
The word bugs has been used for centuries to mean insects, and for about 80 years it has also meant germs. When the machine age began, mechanics who were not satisfied with the performance of some invention or contraption often spoke about getting th...
Perhaps you've seen pictures of the northern lights. These fiery curtains of light often dance across the night skies in the far north. The northern lights probably seem far away and exotic, but the same process that makes them shine can be found muc...
Amanda: Why are you painting that bicycle? Mike: It's my friend's. I borrowed it and got into a wreck. I can't tell him what I did, so I'm trying to cover up the damaged parts with paint. Amanda: The metal is bent! You can't change that with paint! M...
Mike: I'm bored. Everything's the same every day. I want to make a change. Amanda: What kind of change? Mike: I think I'll shave my head bald. Amanda: Why on earth would you do that? What purpose would it serve? And what would your parents say about...
ANNCR: The Social Security Act On today's Congressional Moment Today's Social Security program has its roots in the Great Depression of the 1930s. With 22 million unemployed, many Americans lived in poverty, and many elderly workers lost all their pe...
ANNCR: The Securities and Exchange Commission On Today's Congressional Moment The stock market crash of 1929 devastated the American economy and produced the Great Depression. Between September 1929 and July 1932, stocks lost 83% of their value, prom...
Less a bid to measure up against other movies at the box office, Star Trek may actually be more in competition with itself, and its many incarnations preceding this latest voyage of the USS Enterprise into theaters everywhere. But what does distingui...
Usually, we go about our daily lives wanting to be as efficient as possible. For that reason, we may plan trips, commuting or errands going as directly as possible from one point to the next. To go a longer way, away from the most efficient path, see...
ANNCR: Project Head Start On today's Congressional Moment The Head Start program was one of ten federal programs established by Congress in The Economic Opportunity Act of 1964. Project Head Start was originally launched as an eightweek summer experi...
