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Federal officials stamped the words "failure" on hundreds more Arizona schools, but state officials called the decision illogical and absurd. A record of more than 600 schools, or nearly three times as many as last year, failed to meet fede
The largest unmanned aircraft to rely solely on hydrogen fuel has flown successfully during tests. The plane, with a 22-foot-wingspan, is powered by a fuel-cell system that generates 500-watts—equal to five bright light bulbs.
The notion that the tongue is mapped into four areas—sweet, sour, salty and bitter—is wrong. There are five basic tastes identified so far, and the entire tongue can sense all of these tastes more or less equally.
Scientists have yoked bacteria to power rotary motors, the first microscopic mechanical devices to successfully incorporate living microbes together with inorganic parts. "In far future plans, we would like to make micro-robots driven by biol
Odd flashing pulses coming from a super-magnetic star called a magnetar have astronomers glued to telescopes across the globe. Magnetars are particularly energetic versions of neutron stars, which are the burned out remnants of regular stars.
A recent multimillion-dollar ad campaign that lends support to Republican lawmakers who support the new Medicare prescription drug benefit was partly paid for by the pharmaceutical industry, political officials say. Though the US Chamber of Commerce
Federal election regulators refused to ease limits on political advertising, blocking an effort to let interest groups run radio and television ads mentioning elected officials within weeks of an election.
"They ripped through my front door, they tore off my closet door, ripped both of my kids' rooms to pieces," Young said. "It brought me to tears, and I just didn't want my kids to get hurt."
US consumer confidence slumped in August to its lowest level this year, according to a report which sounded another alarm bell for the health of the world's largest economy. The Conference Board said its consumer confidence index fell dramaticall
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the world faces "a new type of fascism" and warned against repeating the pre-World War II mistake of appeasement. Rumsfeld alluded to critics of the Bush administration's war policies in terms asso
To most of the Arab public, the debate over who won the war between Israel and Lebanon's Hizbullah is already settled. Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah is being feted through song in Syrian nightclubs and on Palestinian radio.
The leader of a polygamist sect who was on the FBI's Most Wanted List was found with cell phones, laptop computers, wigs and more than $50,000 in cash when he was arrested, authorities said.
The spirit of the Mexican people's resistance against authoritarian rule
Secretary of State Jan Brewer told Capitol Media Services on Friday she isn’t sure that Arizona can get the required federal approval of the new procedures in time for the Sept. 12 election.
(So much for the booming economy) The nation's poverty rate was essentially unchanged last year, the first year it hasn't increased since before President Bush took office. The Census Bureau reported Tuesday that 37 million Americans
It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement agai
Indonesian cleric Abu Bakar Bashir has accused America's main intelligence agency of involvement in the 2002 Bali suicide bombings, which claimed the lives of 202 people, including 88 Australians. Bashir, the spiritual leader
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced defiance on Tuesday as a deadline neared for Iran to halt work the West fears is a step toward building nuclear bombs, and challenged President Bush to televised debate. In a news conference
In a little-noticed decision unsealed on August 18, US District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III overturned a $10 million fraud verdict against Custer Battles LLC, on the many crony conquistadors who gorged on the vast porkfest know as "Iraqi reconstr
A chief prosecutor of Nazi war crimes at Nuremberg has said George W. Bush should be tried for war crimes along with Saddam Hussein. Benjamin Ferencz, who secured convictions for 22 Nazi officers for their work in orchestrating
Michael DeKort was frustrated. The 41-year-old Lockheed Martin engineer had complained to his bosses. He told his story to government investigators. He had called congressmen. But when no one seemed to be stepping up to correct
A tenured professor of psychology at the University of New Hampshire believes an "elite" group within the federal government orchestrated the September 11th attacks on America. William Woodward has already raised that possibility
The nephew of Sigmund Freud,Edward Bernays probably did more to "legitimize" propaganda than any other individual in this country. This is part 2 of a series from Google Video. The first part is also included on the page.
Scores of American troops are deserting — even from the front line in Iraq. But where have they gone? And why isn’t the US Army after them? Peter Laufer tracked down four of the deserters
But in both cases, their loved ones initially were told they died either by enemy fire or during movement to evade hostile action. And in both cases, the families only learned later that the truth was far different from what they were told.
A Bush administration official called Iran a "central banker of terror" that provides millions of dollars a year to bankroll terrorist acts carried out by the militant group Hezbollah. "They are the central banker of terror. It is a co
Three days before a UN Security Council deadline for Iran to halt uranium enrichment or face possible sanctions, the United States again raised the prospect of unilateral sanctions against Tehran. [Like what?]
The endangered Florida manatee is as unusual in its physiology, sensory capabilities and brain organization as in its external appearance. Far from being slow learners, manatees, it turns out, are as adept at experimental tasks as dolphins
When no one seemed to be stepping up to correct what he saw as critical security flaws in a fleet of refurbished Coast Guard patrol boats, De Kort did just about the only thing left he could think of to get action: He made a video and posted it on Yo
Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is a longtime and prominent member of the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list, but not for Sept. 11, 2001 -- which is nowhere to be found on the FBI notice.
