Jul 3, 2009 America lost another 467,000 jobs in the month of June --- bringing unemployment to nine-and-a-half percent, highest in 26 years. |
|
|
|
Jul 3, 2009 Whenever a commentator, analyst, consultant, or expert who regularly holds forth on radio, television, or the Internet is referred to as a "pundit" --- the word is usually meant to be a pejorative. |
|
|
|
Jul 3, 2009 In these worrisome times, when life seems to be one damn thing after another, it's worth remembering what songs have been telling us, for years now... |
|
|
|
Jul 3, 2009 The economy being what it is today, to put it mildly, there hasn't been a whole lot of good news lately. But here's some good news on a different front --- from a study about American teenagers, commissioned by The Partnership for a Drug-Free America. |
|
|
|
Jul 2, 2009 "Mistakes were made..." --- we've heard that expressed a lot in the passive voice lately, as things have gone wrong. But to err is not just a human flaw... |
|
|
|
Jul 2, 2009 Climate change, when it occurs, forces plants and animals either to adapt or to move --- to keep up with the environment that they have evolved to survive in. |
|
|
|
Jul 2, 2009 Do you think doctors happy in their work? That's the sort of thing the Physicians Foundation wanted to find out. Dr. Walker Ray... |
|
|
|
Jul 2, 2009 Words have the ability to inflame or to ease the mind. The poet Carl Sandburg wrote, "Be careful how you use proud words. Proud words wear tall boots, and you cannot call them back." |
|
|
|
Jul 1, 2009 The herd instinct not only applies to wild animals on the African plain, but also that other wilderness called "Wall Street" --- as my Sunday Morning colleague Josh Landis found out... |
|
|
|
Jul 1, 2009 A recent report from the University of California at Berkeley confirms that in hot dry cities with a lot of smog, places like Los Angeles, a long-term side effect of breathing the fine particulate matter in the air --- "schmutz," it's sometimes called --- is death from cardiovascular disease. |
|
|
|
Jul 1, 2009 Several states are thinking about, and in some cases have tested, plans to overhaul their transportation systems --- by using GPS chips to keep track of where they've driven --- |
|
|
|
Jul 1, 2009 Some British researchers have concluded that people who have exercised their brains by doing mentally difficult work requiring close attention and memory, just before working out on a stationary bicycle until exhaustion, had much less tolerance for the physical exercise than they would when mentally rested. |
|
|
|
Jun 30, 2009 Convicted swindler Bernard Madoff, who destroyed the financial lives of thousands of people and charities, will spent the rest of his own natural life in Federal prison. |
|
|
|
Jun 30, 2009 Heart attacks often leave those who survive with scarred or weakened hearts. But perhaps using stem cells, it may be possible one day for the heart to grow new tissue to repair itself. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 30, 2009 Feeling guilty about something? Well, guilt does have its uses, as Woody Allen pointed out in his 1984 movie "Broadway Danny Rose." |
|
|
|
Jun 30, 2009 Some of the drugs like Ritalin being prescribed for children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder are also being taken illegally now by people without such disorders. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2009 This is the day Bernie Madoff, the convicted swindler, finds out what's going to happen to him. Before the judge pronounces sentence --- anywhere from 12 years in prison, which is what his lawyers think would be a humane sentence --- |
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2009 Tomorrow, June 30th --- U.S. troops in Iraq will, as agreed, be pulling out of the cities and towns. They could go back in if needed, but will have get permission from the Iraqi government to do so. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2009 Science marches on: in the relentless pursuit of more difficult ways to do easy things, Canadian researchers have come up with another winner. |
|
|
|
Jun 29, 2009 It's gotten to be conventional wisdom now that climate change is occurring on the Planet Earth, a global warming which is said to be at least partly our fault --- we humans, we Americans, especially. |
|
|
|
Jun 26, 2009 Michael Jackson's skill as a performer was unmatched. When he danced, the laws of physics didn't seem to apply to him. And yet, he will probably be remembered more as an eccentric --- who dangled his son over a balcony, kept zoo animals as pets, and settled for 22 million dollars with the family of a boy who claimed he had been molested. |
|
|
|
Jun 26, 2009 Savana Redding was 13 years old when school officials who suspected she might be hiding prescription Ibuprofin had her marched off to the nurse's office and strip searched down to her underwear and training bra. |
|
|
|
Jun 26, 2009 It goes by many names --- "Cap and Trade," "Green Energy" --- but the bill before the House of Representatives is designed to discourage American industry from pumping too much carbon into the air. |
|
|
|
Jun 26, 2009 The President's going to take another run at immigration reform --- because I guess passing climate change, reforming health care, and preventing the Great Depression has simply left him with too much free time. |
|
|
|
Jun 25, 2009 The disappearance of Gov. Mark Sanford, it turns out, wasn't a result of the pressure of the South Carolina legislative session, or a sudden urge to hike the Appalachian trail, or a sudden longing for the beaches of Argentina --- where it happens to be winter right now. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 25, 2009 Good news for the growing numbers of Obama doubters on the left who were worried his Iraq policy was no different than George W. Bush's. |
|
|
|
Jun 25, 2009 A major concern in the world's economic situation is the flow of credit. Now, the very word "credit" comes from the Latin "credo" --- "I believe" --- from which we get the words credence, credentials, and creed. |
|
|
|
Jun 25, 2009 Three years ago, the FDA approved the AbioCor for commercial use --- the first implantable artificial heart without wires. Today, it's keeping a 76-year-old man alive. |
|
|
|
Jun 24, 2009 The big health care debate is over whether government or the free market will prevail. The President has said, I'm willing to let my government plan compete with the private plans, and may the best plan win. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 24, 2009 Finally, strong language on Iran. That'll teach the Supreme Leader a lesson. For a week now, John McCain and many reporters have wondered when President Obama would use stronger langauge on Iran. |
|
|
|
Jun 24, 2009 We keep hearing about how America's 78 million Baby Boomers are about retire, but don't be so sure. When a recent survey asked the question, "Would you consider yourself very confident that you'll have enough money to retire comfortably?" --- only 13% of the workers surveyed said "Yes." |
|
|
|
Jun 24, 2009 With all the money President Obama's spending on building and refurbishing schools across the country, school kids will have bright shiny classrooms, and more equipment to work with. But, what about the teachers? |
|
|
|
|
Jun 23, 2009 It was terrifying to check the financial headlines yesterday --- a big Wall Street drop. Bank of America tumbled, JP Morgan plummeted, American Express Company plunged. And by the end of the day, Wall Street had completely run out of scary synonyms. Down 200 points, or 2.4%. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 23, 2009 I'll bet it's happened to you: you go in for a medical test, the lab takes your blood, they send you home, and then --- you hear nothing. |
|
|
|
Jun 23, 2009 Every parent knows how important a college education is --- although now, they're starting to wish it wasn't so important, because it's getting tougher to pay for it. |
|
|
|
Jun 23, 2009 In New York City, there's an elegant private club, just off Park Avenue. The food is excellent. But food and elegance are not what it's famous for. What the Friars Club is famous for is laughs. |
|
|
|
Jun 22, 2009 Summer's here, gas prices are heading to three dollars a gallon again --- which, of course, would be bad news. |
|
|
|
Jun 22, 2009 The death toll in Iran rose over the weekend, as protests over the disputed election continued. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 22, 2009 Health care technology can be unbelievably expensive, and managing that expense is one of the biggest problems hospitals have all across the country. |
|
|
|
Jun 22, 2009 Researchers say the average American lifespan increased by nearly three years, to age 77, in the years between 1978 and 2001 --- and that 21 weeks of extra life can be attributed to improved quality of the air we breathe. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 19, 2009 President Obama said earlier this week that the cost of overhauling the health care system would be on the order of a trillion dollars over the next ten years. |
|
|
|
Jun 19, 2009 The Kang Nam is a beat-up old merchant ship --- sure doesn't look like much, says CBS News National Security Correspondent David Martin. But right now, it's getting a lot of attention from the U.S. Military. |
|
|
|
Jun 19, 2009 I have a photograph on the wall at home of an older guy, with a white beard in a sport shirt --- and a young guy, with a black beard in military fatigues. |
|
|
|
Jun 19, 2009 Bad times give rise to bad guys. The Wild West had its share of bad apples, like Jesse James and his brothers --- and, Billy the Kid. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 18, 2009 The government in Iran is doing all it can to prevent opposition demonstrators from communicating with one another --- and to prevent the world from finding out all about all the protests and demonstrating that's going on there. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 18, 2009 President Obama says the regulatory reforms he proposes are designed not to have the government replace the free market system, but to catch up with developments the present system was inadequate to handle. |
|
|
|
Jun 18, 2009 The Iranian government is having a hard time enforcing its ban on opposition demonstrations --- and is trying to crack down on the use of the Internet blogs, texting, instant messaging, Twitter, and cell phone cameras. |
|
|
|
Jun 18, 2009 The recession has hit cities in some parts of the United States worse than in others, according to the MetroMonitor --- an interactive barometer that tracks the economic situation in a hundred of the 336 metropolitan areas. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2009 Today's the day President Obama will be rolling out his plan for increased government regulation of the financial industry. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2009 The circumstances of the Iranian election last week --- and the government's declaration of a landslide victory for Ahmadinejad --- are so suspicious that hundreds of thousands of Iranian demonstrators clearly think it was rigged and a limited recount won't do. |
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2009 It's been a very cool summer, so far. Does that mean global warming is over? |
|
|
|
Jun 17, 2009 Despite the Iranian government's ban on marches, protests, or street demonstrations of any kind against the government's claim of a landslide election win for President Ahmadinejad, there have been massive demonstrations --- repeatedly. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2009 In Iran's capital Tehran --- in the face of huge throngs defying a government ban on demonstrations --- a spokesman for Iran's Guardian Council of clerics and Islamic law experts says there will be a recount of the votes --- not all the votes, but those in specific places where candidates claim irregularities occurred. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2009 Most American doctors and their organization, the American Medical Association, were very much against the health care reform plan that First Lady Hillary Clinton came up with when her husband was President --- and they helped kill it. |
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2009 Why is it that when asked by a doctor whether they are smokers, social smokers often say, "No, I'm not..."? Is that because they are pathological liars? |
|
|
|
Jun 16, 2009 The Internet has become an important part of many Americans' lives, even when they're at home with their families. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 15, 2009 President Obama speaks today on the subject of universal health care costs and coverage to the American Medical Association, meeting in Chicago. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 15, 2009 Despite a security clampdown in Iran and the arrest of hundreds of opposition leaders, protests continue as students and others continue to insist President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stole the election with vote rigging and fraud. |
|
|
|
Jun 15, 2009 Walt Whitman once wrote, "I hear America singing." And today... |
|
|
|
|
Jun 15, 2009 When the economy starts improving, the demand --- and therefore, the price --- of oil goes up. When the dollar goes down, the price of oil in dollars goes up. And when oil goes up, so does gasoline. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 12, 2009 By an overwhelming vote of 79 to 17 yesterday, the United States Senate joined the House in taking unprecedented action to try to reduce the 400,000 smoking-related deaths in this country every year. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 12, 2009 In Iran, it is election day --- and the voters are deciding whether to keep Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as their president for four more years |
|
|
|
Jun 12, 2009 A study suggests that people who take in the equivalent of three brewed cups of coffee a day are three times more likely to hallucinate, to see things that never happened or hear people say things they never said. |
|
|
|
Jun 12, 2009 Conventional wisdom is not always right, you know. We used to think that there was life on Mars, and then we thought there wasn't any --- and now, well, something else has come along. |
|
|
|
Jun 11, 2009 When the dollar declines, that means it takes more dollars to buy a commodity like oil. Crude hit a new high for the year yesterday. When that happens, look for gasoline to go up, as well. |
|
|
|
Jun 11, 2009 According to an ongoing new study to be released in August, the average and peak wind speeds have been slowing down in this country since 1973, especially in the Midwest and in the East. |
|
|
|
Jun 11, 2009 Forecasting --- whether it's economic, weather, climatic, or political forecasting --- is never an exact science. Short-range forecasting is always easier, because sometimes you can see things coming. |
|
|
|
Jun 11, 2009 Statistical analysis has enabled us to link certain lifestyle factors to a person's health and longevity.
We know that some people drink themselves to death. We also know that cigarette smoking is linked both to cancer and heart disease. |
|
|
|
Jun 10, 2009 Ten of the biggest banks in the country now have the go-ahead from the Federal Government to pay back 68 billion dollars of the bailout money they were given seven months ago. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 10, 2009 One way to bring the high cost of health care in this country down, we're told, is to cut down on the number of very expensive procedures --- many of which are being performed in cases where they're not really needed. |
|
|
|
Jun 10, 2009 There's no unified standard of risk --- no scale on which it's possible to compare with any precision whether it is more dangerous to ride in a car than on an airliner, a bus, a boat or a spaceship --- or to smoke a cigarette, eat a cheeseburger, or cross the street. |
|
|
|
Jun 10, 2009 Although there are millions of people in the world who don't get enough to eat, the World Health Organization says that there are 400 million or so people who eat too much and are formally classified as obese --- 20 million of those, the WHO says, are under the age of five. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 9, 2009 In the four months since President Obama signed the 787 billion dollar stimulus package to create jobs, they say 150,000 jobs were created in the first 100 days. |
|
|
|
Jun 9, 2009 Two American women journalists --- Laura Ling and Euna Lee --- who were seized by North Korean police near the Chinese border, while working on a story about trafficking in women --- have been sentenced by a North Korean court to twelve years of hard labor in a prison camp, for what the court called the "grave and hostile" crime of allegedly crossing into North Korea from China. |
|
|
|
Jun 9, 2009 According to a study in the journal "Psychological Science," a vigorous handwashing or a shower could cause a person to be less judgmental about other people. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 9, 2009 A study suggests that men are hardwired by evolution to spend too much money, to max out on their credit cards. And the reason is that being a big spender is tied to sexual desire: the desire to attract females. |
|
|
|
Jun 8, 2009 Attorneys for state pension and construction funds in Indiana are asking the United States Supreme Court to block the government-ordered sale of Chrysler to Fiat, saying the deal undermines secured debt holders. |
|
|
|
Jun 8, 2009 Today is the first annual World Oceans Day, so designated by the United Nations, to celebrate the ocean sea that covers two-thirds of the Earth's surface. |
|
|
|
Jun 8, 2009 Though it may seem a bit outrageous, there's a study that says cheer's contagious. |
|
|
|
Jun 8, 2009 It looks like a sheet of ordinary carbon paper, but there's nothing ordinary about it. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 5, 2009 President Obama has given "the speech," the one in which he calls for a re-set of America's relations with the Muslim world. The reviews are in. How'd he do --- and what's next? |
|
|
|
Jun 5, 2009 As investigators try to find out why Air France Flight 447 fell into the Atlantic Ocean, they hope searchers will find the jet's flight recorders --- the so-called "black boxes" that could give them important information. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 5, 2009 Whatever you're doing this weekend, take a few minutes to remember a key date in history: June 6th, 1944 --- D-Day. |
|
|
|
Jun 5, 2009 Given the perilous state of journalism today, I thought I'd better start looking around for a new line of work. And I think I've found my new career: ape comedian! |
|
|
|
|
Jun 4, 2009 President Obama says he's bringing a message of peace and hope to the Muslim world... |
|
|
|
Jun 4, 2009 It's the 20th anniversary of the uprising in Tiananmen Square in Beijing. How many people were killed? We may never know. |
|
|
|
Jun 4, 2009 It can be devastating to lose the family dog to cancer. Now, there's hope many pet owners won't have to. |
|
|
|
Jun 4, 2009 For those of us of a certain age --- OK, old --- the world is divided into two groups: people who played Super Mario... |
|
|
|
|
Jun 3, 2009 President Obama's choice to become a Supreme Court Justice is making the rounds on Capitol Hill, talking to the people who will vote yes or no. |
|
|
|
Jun 3, 2009 President Obama is hitting the road on an international trip. It'll be a chance for him to see if his policy to be more engaged with the rest of the world pays dividends. |
|
|
|
Jun 3, 2009 There's word eccentric North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has chosen the man who will replace him when he goes to that great workers' paradise in the sky. |
|
|
|
Jun 3, 2009 Everyone needs a good friend, right? Someone you can really confide in? Sure...
But, a new study suggests those good buddies don't have to be the same people for your whole life. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 2, 2009 General Motors is bankrupt. Now what? |
|
|
|
Jun 2, 2009 OK, do this with great caution, but it may be all right to check your 401(k) account again. |
|
|
|
Jun 2, 2009 When he was Vice President, we could go for weeks without hearing from Dick Cheney. Now that he's a former Vice President, we're hearing from him all the time! |
|
|
|
|
Jun 2, 2009 Hey, take a few minutes when you get home tonight and look around at all the stuff you have, but rarely use. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 1, 2009 Only a few years ago, who could have imagined that General Motors --- General Motors! --- would go into bankruptcy... |
|
|
|
|
Jun 1, 2009 If President Obama thought --- or maybe just hoped --- his nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor would have smooth sailing ... well, fair winds are hard to come by in Washington, DC. |
|
|
|
|
Jun 1, 2009 GM And Chrysler are in financial trouble --- and, given the trend in gas prices, you could be again, too! |
|
|
|
Jun 1, 2009 Millvina Dean has died --- and with her, a piece of history: she was the last known survivor of The Titanic. |
|
|
|
