May 9, 2008 The military government of Myanmar is obviously more worried about having the world find out what a horrible regime it is than they are in helping the million and a half victims of last Saturday's devastating cyclone. |
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May 9, 2008 Marijuana use among American teens has decreased 25 percent since 2001. But 2.3 million teens here still use it. And many Americans have come to think of marijuana as a relatively harmless drug. |
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May 9, 2008 There are many more multiple births now than there used to be. That's because of the use of fertility drugs and what we used to call test tube babies, In Vitro Fertilization. |
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May 9, 2008 For convenience and orderly study, scientists have classified living organisms by genus, species and the like. You and I, being homo sapiens, are mammals, primates specifically. In the same class as chimps and other monkeys. Scientists believe that all mammals evolved from reptiles, snakes and lizards and the like. That's not quite as obvious. |
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May 8, 2008 How do you tell somebody like Hillary Clinton that the party's over? It's time to call it a day. Nobody wants to. |
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May 8, 2008 There were three suicide bombings aimed at security forces in Iraq last month. Seven people were killed in those attacks. And it turns out that one of the suicide bombers was a man named Abdallah Salih al-Ajmi who was a detainee at Guantanamo Bay for more than three and a half years and then released. |
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May 8, 2008 There's a new study out associating too little sleep, or too much sleep, with various health problems including obesity. |
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May 8, 2008 People in every country and every walk of life have had to make adjustments. Including those at institutions of higher learning, colleges and universities, where feeding students has become a more expensive proposition. |
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May 7, 2008 Barack Obama was the big winner last night, taking North Carolina with ease and losing only narrowly to Hillary Clinton in Indiana. But Clinton says she's not about to quit. |
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May 7, 2008 Of all the presidential campaigns our colleague Bob Schieffer has covered over the years, he says this one is among the strangest. |
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May 7, 2008 The Peter Principle, as laid down by Professor Lawrence J. Peter in 1968, holds that in a hierarchy, members are promoted so long as they work competently. Sooner or later they reach a position at which they are incompetent. And there they stay, in jobs they are not very good at. |
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May 7, 2008 There's a cartoon in the current "New Yorker" magazine. A couple watching a monster TV screen in their living room, and the screen reads, "Consumer Alert! The people next store have just bought a flat screen, hi-def TV that's even bigger than yours!" What's next? |
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May 6, 2008 Today's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina could go either way or both ways, says politico.com's Ken Vogle. |
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May 6, 2008 If the economy is stalled now it's because with home prices falling, banks are shying away from lending. Fannie Mae and Freddy Mac, two institutions created by Congress but owned by private investors, handled more than 80 percent of all mortgages bought by investors this year. |
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May 6, 2008 Once upon a time the scent of a flower could waft through the wind a half a mile or more. A bee could be attracted to it from that great a distance. But now with air pollution, that scent might reach 600 feet if that. And this could be one explanation for the mysterious dying off of honeybee and bumblebee colonies that scientists call colony collapse disorder. |
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May 6, 2008 This would be a week to thank all those employees at agencies of the federal, state and local government who've been hard at work trying to help you, or regulate you, in so many different ways throughout the year. This happens to be Public Service Recognition Week. |
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May 5, 2008 Going into tomorrow's primaries in Indiana and North Carolina with 187 delegates are at stake, Barack Obama's lead over Hillary Clinton in delegates is only 135. But the math still favors Obama since neither will get all 187. And they're both still talking about change. |
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May 5, 2008 There is a so called "dead zone" in the Gulf of Mexico. A huge area of between seven and eight thousand square miles that forms every summer above the continental shelf with algae blooms on the surface and so little oxygen gets through that shellfish and bottom feeding fish can't survive there. |
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May 5, 2008 In the years between the time that we are born and time we die, there are cells in our body that die and other cells that are born to replace them. |
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May 5, 2008 At Omaha's Qwest Center this past Saturday, Warren Buffet entertained 31 thousand of his enthusiastic Berkshire Hathaway investors It's an annual meeting that has been described as Woodstock for capitalists. |
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May 2, 2008 When the dollar goes down, oil prices go up. But oil prices have fallen for the last three days, the dollar's been surging. |
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May 2, 2008 DNA may be the gold standard evidence for identifying a criminal suspect, but far more common, and more useful to law enforcement investigators and prosecutors are old fashioned fingerprints, criminologists say. |
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May 2, 2008 College tuitions keep rising, but a new independent study questions whether the students are getting their money's worth. |
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May 2, 2008 There are questions a company interviewer is not supposed to ask a prospective employee, because even asking the question suggests the possibility of discrimination of one kind or another. |
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May 1, 2008 As this presidential race goes on, the more we get to know the presidential candidates, the more we don't like them. Here's Kathleen Frankovic, the CBS News Director of Surveys. |
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May 1, 2008 Bio-diversity is not just desirable for us humans, it's essential. Why should we care if a changing environment threatens some remote species? Because it threatens us! |
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May 1, 2008 If you're addicted to alcohol, you're called an alcoholic. But now "aholic" has become a suffix that's used to describe addiction to anything. If you work too much you're called a workaholic. Now South Dakota has begun a month long campaign to help people cut down on soft drink consumption. |
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May 1, 2008 Five years ago today the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln had accomplished it's 10 month mission in Iraq and was nearing San Diego when President Bush landed on the carrier deck and made a televised speech. Standing in front of a banner that read, "Mission Accomplished." |
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Apr 30, 2008 Every time Reverend Jeremiah Wright opened his mouth recently he lost votes by the thousands for Barack Obama. And after a weekend of Wright calling more and more attention to himself in a particularly bombastic and divisive way, Obama had enough. |
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Apr 30, 2008 Teens who are hoping to find summer jobs are worried that with this economy they won't be able to find any. Well the good news is.. |
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Apr 30, 2008 Free market capitalism assumes that people will always do what they think is in their own best interest. That consumers will buy less of something when the price goes up, and more when it goes down. And that producers will produce less when they don't get as much for it and produce more when it fetches more. |
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Apr 30, 2008 How many meteorites do you own? Personally I don't own any. But there's one guy I know of who has a lot of them. |
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Apr 29, 2008 Indiana's law requiring voters to present a driver's license, passport or some other official government issued ID at the voting place has been upheld by the Supreme Court. |
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Apr 29, 2008 Some of the tax rebates are now being deposited in people's bank accounts, 800 thousand yesterday, 800 thousand more today, another 800 thousand tomorrow, then five million more before this week is over. |
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Apr 29, 2008 From the time British freelance photographer Richard Butler, in Iraq on assignment for CBS News, was kidnapped from a hotel room in Basra on February 10th. |
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Apr 29, 2008 At the Olympics, some people seen trouble coming...and starts with T and that stands for Tibet. But there's also trouble that starts with T and rhymes with P and that stands for POOL. |
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Apr 28, 2008 Hillary Clinton would dearly love to debate Barack Obama between now and the May 6th primaries in Indiana and North Carolina. She keeps sayin' "Lets do it" |
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Apr 28, 2008 The annual NAACP's 150 dollar a plate Fight For Freedom Fund dinner in Detroit is billed as the largest sit down dinner in America. |
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