Innovator Nicholas Negroponte combines imagination, engineering and idealism to bring laptops to the world's children Adam Phillips | New York 22 February 2010 Related Links One Laptop Per Child MIT Media Lab Jerome Wiesner MIT Architecture School Ar...
For centuries, orchids have cast a quiet spell. They have been hunted and collected on every continent - except Antarctica. Books, movies, paintings, and photographs document one of the most sophisticated flower markets. Every year the U.S. Botanic G...
Three dimensional movies, like Avatar, are wowing us with their visual display. The science fiction epic Avatar won best drama and top director for filmmaker James Cameron at this year's Golden Globe awards. But a study at the University of Californi...
Many athletes depend on corporate sponsorships to help ease financial burden, which has become more difficult during recession Kane Farabaugh | Vancouver 21 February 2010 Photo: VOA Image K. Farabaugh Training to compete in the Olympics is a long and...
The 21st Winter Olympics in Vancouver enter their final week Sunday. Local organizers have received high marks for the way the Games have gone so far. The first eight days of the Winter Games in Vancouver have had plenty of controversy. Before the Ga...
Iraqi musician Rahim Al Haj and Amir Koushkani of Iran join to play together as part of the Cultural Olympiad music program They come from two nations - Iraq and Iran - that have been enemies for years. But at the Vancouver Games, Rahim Al Haj of Ira...
Saleh al-Mutlaq, a Sunni politician who has been barred from running in the election because of alleged ties to the Baath party, Iraq (file photo) A key Sunni political bloc declared Saturday that it would not take part in Iraq's March 7 parliamentar...
The Dutch coalition government has collapsed amid a political row over whether to extend the country's military mission in Afghanistan. Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende was due to submit his government's resignation to Queen Beatrix later Saturday...
Former Secretary of State Alexander Haig pauses in thought prior to a panel discussion with other former Secreatries of State entitled The Annual Report of the Secretaries of State at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival in Montgomery, Ala., on Friday, S...
Japan's Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada, left, shakes hands with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in Sydney, 20 Feb 2010 Japan's foreign minister visits Australia Saturday for bi-lateral talks. Among the topics expected to be discussed is the sens...
Metropolitan Inter-Faith Association helps to improve the lives of thousands of people in Memphis, Tennessee February is Black History Month in the United States. The national observance pays tribute to people and events that have helped to shape Afr...
MUSIC: Our World theme This week on Our World: Going for the green at the winter Olympics ... a promising new approach to making solar cells ... and cheap laptop computers for all the world's children. NEGROPONTE: 1.2 million children in 31 countries...
News and analysis from an African American perspective Art Chimes | Washington, DC 19 February 2010 Related Links The Root February is African American History Month here in the United States, and so this week we feature a site that looks at news and...
New design produces flexible panels using only 1-2 percent as much silicon Art Chimes | Washington, DC 19 February 2010 You can use 100 times less silicon. And that's potentially very significant. Harry Atwater Schematic diagram of the light-trapping...
The gods of ancient Greece rarely get featured roles in movies any more; but Zeus, Poseidon, Hades and the rest are at the center of at Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, a new film adventure adapted from the first in a series of n...
