When someone feels shy or embarrassed, their face, and especially their cheeks, may temporarily become red or rosy-colored. We call this blushing in English. As we become older and more confident and experienced in life, we tend to blush far less. So...
Looking for a peaceful seaside vacation spot? You might want to consider Saturns largest moon, Titan. Titan is nothing like the Earths moon. Not only is it almost twice the size, its eighty-percent more massive.It's the only moon with an atmosphere,...
ANNCR: The Toxic Substances Control Act on Today's Congressional Moment. In 1971, the President's Council on Environmental Quality issued a report titled Toxic Substances. It pointed to a sharp increase in the amount of potentiallydangerous chemicals...
The Water Resources Agency (WRA) of Taiwan has called on people to save water as a way to reduce carbon emissions. The WRA pointed out that the low price of tap water in Taiwan, which has not increased in 14 years, has led people to waste the valuabl...
ANNCR: TITLE NINE Today on Congressional Moment MAN: (gymnasium sfx) THE NEW GIRLS' BASKETBALL TEAM IS TAKING HALF OUR FUNDING AWAY; THE BOYS' TEAM IS, LIKE, TOTALLY FALLING APART. WOMAN: (outdoor practice sfx) WHEN MY DAUGHTER STARTED PLAYING ON THE...
ANNCR: The Voting Rights Act Today on Congressional Moment. The right to vote has always been fundamental to our system of representative democracy, yet most AfricanAmerican voters in southern states were denied this right for almost a hundred years,...
America's most famous dysfunctional cartoon family The Simpsons were unveiled as the latest faces on a set of commemorative stamps released by the U.S. Postal Service. A total of one billion The Simpsons stamps will be issued across the United States...
ANNCR: Whistleblower Protection Laws on Today's Congressional Moment. It's not hard to think of moments when history was changed by someone who blew the whistle on government missteps. Daniel Ellsburg, for instance, leaked the Pentagon's secret histo...
Y:So,Don,when you go to Mcdonald's... D:I don't go to Mcdonald's. Y:OK,but if you did.And saw that they have salad on the menu,would you get the salad or something less heathful like a cheeseburg in french fries? D:Well,if I saw,if they had a salad,I...
After exposing an alleged Church cover-up in The Da Vinci Code, symbologist Robert Langdon returns to the big screen as an unlikely Vatican ally in the latest movie adaptation of a novel by Dan Brown. Angels Demons, again starring Tom Hanks as Langdo...
The War Powers Resolution The War Powers Resolution on Today's Congressional Moment. How do we get into wars in the first place? The framers of our Constitution had a clear idea: They gave Congress, the branch closest to the people, the power to decl...
According to one study, whole grain cereal with a little skim milk is just as good as Gatorade and other sports drinks for replenishing nutrients after exercise. The researchers, at the University of Texas at Austin, studied twelve cyclists. After wa...
Imagine youre camping deep in the woods on a summer night. The sun sinks below the horizon and the temperature begins to fall. You shiver, and as you pull your jacket around your shoulders, you wonder just how cold it really is. Heres a clever way fo...
ANNCR: The Safe Drinking Water Act on today's Congressional Moment The federal government's concern with safe drinking water dates back to 1914, when the U.S. Public Health Service established standards for bacteria in drinking water on ships, trains...
If theres any one thing that really separates humans from most other animals, its our ability to get funky. Whens the last time you saw a lion, or a giraffe, or even a chimpanzee, do the Funky Chicken or the Electric Slide? But there is one other spe...
