When NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander sets down in the Martian arctic on Sunday, it will open a new, icy frontier for scientists back on Earth. Phoenix, a stationary lander set to make a planned May 25 descent to the Martian surface, is going to where no probe has gone before …
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Christie Brinkley Fights Back | Tim Rice’s ‘Memory’ of Lloyd Weber | Julia Roberts Looks Familiar | Cook’s Counters; Chess Kings Christie Brinkley Fights Back Stunning mother of three and famed supermodel Christie Brinkley is not happy about the tack her estranged husband Peter Cook is taking in the press …
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A front-page story in The New York Times Monday examines the alleged murders of two American Army officers by another U.S. soldier. This is only the second time a brutal incident like this has happened in the Iraq war, but it’s obviously disturbing. The story is legitimate, of course. Not …
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Does Michelle Obama dislike America? That is the subject of this evening’s “Talking Points Memo.” Campaigning Monday for her husband in Wisconsin, Mrs. Obama said something that has caused major controversy, and she said it twice. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MICHELLE OBAMA, BARACK OBAMA’S WIFE: Let me tell you something. For …
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A lake that might once have been habitable may have filled a crater for a long time on early Mars, new spacecraft images reveal. NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captured the images that suggest the debris-strewn Holden Crater once held a calm body of water that could have harbored life. …
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DANBURY, Conn. – A 16-year-old Connecticut high school student who fell asleep in class says he suffered substantial hearing loss when his math teacher smacked her palm down on his desk to wake him up while she was teaching. Now his parents are planning to sue Danbury High School, the …
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The 911 call came into the Martin Police Department in Tennessee at the busiest time of day, when school was letting out and the roadways were choked with cars. A mail carrier saw some white powder in a rural mailbox. Thinking it could be anthrax, he closed the lid and …
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Michael Jackson| Madonna | Red Cross | Robert Altman Jacko Spurned Charity Invite for Own Project Michael Jacksonwants to save the world, but on his own terms. His offer to record a song for World Trade Center victims has an interesting history. According to sources, Jackson was originally invited on …
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Picture yourself with no body fat. That’s what Harvard Medical School researchers recommend for your health in the July 9 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine. The researchers’ new study reports that even a few extra pounds of bodyweight raises the risk of chronic diseases like diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, …
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A large and diverse reaction to our extended segment on the drug war. And that’s the subject of this evening’s Talking Points memo. We in America are making two enormous mistakes regarding the drug problem. First, society is much too accepting of intoxication in general. And I’m not talking morals …
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