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WORLD

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JUNE 2010

World Cup Kicks Off With A Fanfare

Bhopal Justice Delayed

Are Billion Dollar Summits Worth the Cost?

The Rocky Road Ahead in Afghanistan

Afghanistan's Trillion-Dollar Treasure Trove

Israeli Ship Raid Unleashes Storm of Protest

The Good, The Bad, The Ugly: Amnesty International 2010 Human Rights Report

MAY 2010

China Expects 70 Million Visitors to World Expo 2010

Seeing the Red Shirts in Black and White

U.S. Tells North Korea to Halt Provocations and Threats

North Korea Reacts to Torpedo Report on Cheonan Sinking

A Grim Milestone: 1,000 Americans Dead in Afghanistan

British Coalition Off to a Cheery Start

Pope Benedict XVI Decries "The Sins Within"

The Big Bailout -- Bringing the Euro Back from the Brink

Jack Cafferty: "Any Reason to Take Iran Seriously on Nuclear Weapons"

Greece Struggles to Rise from the Ruins

APRIL 2010

Abuse and Accountability -- New Questions for Vatican

Gordon Brown and The Gaffe Heard Round the World

Earth Day 2010 -- How Green is My Planet?

Poland's Flight of Sorrow

Erotic Women Cause Eruptions, Ayatollah Warns

Two Terror Leaders Slain in Iraq

The Ash Cloud -- Getting Back on the Flight Path

Looking at the WikiLeak Video

Death of a Boer -- A Dire Moment for South Africa

Suicide Bombers Blast Two Moscow Metro Stations

Lord's resistance Army Butchers 321 Men, Women and Children

Shooting Pains: Afghan Police Can't Get It Straight

MARCH 2010

FALKLAND ISLANDS GOVT SITE

FALKLANDS OIL

Discordant Voices Strain U.S. -- Israeli Relations

Mexico's Drug Cartels Going Rogue in Ciudade Juarez

Iraqi People Brave Blasts to Ink Election 2010

Aftermath -- A Tale of Two Quakes, Haiti and Chile

Falklands Desire to Drill Sparks New Stand-Off

Bullying Allegations Dog British Prime Minister

FEBRUARY 2010

Camp Holland: Mission Impossible on the Home Front

Who Was Behind the Slaying of Mahmoud Al-Mabhouh in Room 230?

Marja is Crucial Test of New Afghan Strategy to "Clear, Hold, Build"

"Young Davos" -- Best and Brightest Youth on the Planet Seize the Day

The Tribe That Lost Its Voice: Extinction of the Bo in the Adaman Islands, India

U.S. Boosts Allies with Patriot Missile Shield

Iran Raises the Heat in Nuclear Dispute

T ony Blair: The Whole Calculus of Risk Changed for Me After 9/11."

Auschwitz and the Remembrance of Pure Evil

JANUARY 2010

General McChrystal sees Taliban Power-Sharing as Key to Reconciliation

Bin Laden Speaks Again -- Maybe

Relief Workers Battle Logistical Nightmare in Haiti

Facing the Unimaginable Tragedy in Haiti

Vive le France! Tops Quality of Life Index -- USA at No. 7

Muslim Extremists Planned Anti-War March Riles Wootton Basset

Dubai's Burj Khalifa Reaches for the Stars

Counter-Insurgency Mounts in Yemen

Looking Beyond the Hunt for Scapegoats in Iran

Eurostar's Tunnel Vision

New Year 2010: Let's Hear it for "Twenty-Ten"

OCTOBER 2009 —DECEMBER 2009

For Richer or Poorer, Counting the Wealth of Nations at Copenhagen
Italy's "Climate of Hate" and the Battering of Silvio Berlusconi
The Nobel Prize and the "Hard Truths" of War and Peace
Cop 15 Copenhagen: The Taxing Question of Climate Change

Climate Change -- The Great E-Mail Hack Heats Up the Debate

Bah-Humbug! -- Christmas Tree-Free Zone for Climate Summit

"Are We Cursed?" -- Five Blasts in Fifty Minutes of Terror in Baghdad

"Disrupt, Dismantle, Defeat" -- 30,000 Additional Troops for a "War of Necessity"

Swiss Voters Nix New Minarets

Dubai Crisis Fuels Fears of Sovereign Debt Storm

Iran Launches Five-Day Air-Defense Drill Around Nuclear Sites

"And the Prize for Global Corruption Goes to..."

Lost Innocents: A Nation's Apology for Children Banished in World War II

Out of the Shadows:The Light at the End of the Berlin Wall

Afghan Corruption at the Cost of U.K. Blood and Treasure

Blood Diamond Spotlight on Zimbabwe
Afghan Run-Off Scrapped, A Victor Declared
President Obama Salutes the Returning War Dead
Terror Bombs Won't Break the Iraqis
Wiping the Afghan Slate Clean for November
Pakistan in the Eye of the Storm
U.S. Sudan Policy -- "Speak Softly, Carry a Big Stick"
Maldive Cabinet Meets Six Feet Under the Sea
President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize --- "The Audacity of Great Expectations."
Somali Pirates Make a Run on French Flagship
Battle of Kamdesh, Afghanistan -- "A Very. Very Difficult Day."
Rio 2016 -- Olympic Gold for Brazil, Land of the Future
Red Letter Day for Communist China
Afghanistan Counter-Insurgency Commander: "We Can Defeat Ourselves"

Chancellor Merkel's Win Moves Germany Center-Right

Reacting to Iran's Hidden Nuclear Plant

JULY 2009 -- SEPTEMBER 2009

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The Terror in Mexico – Drug Cartel Massacres

Japan Election – Real change or Empty Hope?

Is Afghanistan Today's Vietnam?

Questioning the War in Afghanistan

Lockerbie Bomber's release – The Compassion and the Fury

Afghan Election – The Taliban Challenge

Afghan Women – New Laws of Submission

Sentence of Shame – Aung Sang Suu Kyi and the American Swimmer

Afghanistan – Strategy Shift

Hillary Clinton's African Odyssey

Pakistan's Top Taliban Leader Slain?

North Korea – Bill Clinton Talks the Talk

Radio Venezuela Purging the Waves

Nigeria Throws the Book at Boko Haram

South Africa – Back to the Rubicon?

Israel and Iran – Point Counter Point

Charles Taylor on Trial at the Hague

Reflections on Apollo 11

Was Moon Landing Faked?

Mexico – The Drug War

A United Ireland?

Afghanistan – The Soldier's Wife

President Obama in Africa

Pamplona – Death in the Morning

Pope Benedict on Economy

Afghanistan – The Problem of Feudalism

China – History and the Riots at Urumqi

Honduras – Ouster of Zelaya

North Korea Nuclear Threat

North Korea Sanctions Option

Afghanistan – Operation Khanjar

Iraq Cities – U.S. Troops Withdrawal

Iran Election 2009 – Basic Human Rights?

On Netanyahu and Palestine

Racial Profiling in France

France – Ban the Burqua?

Iran Election 2009 – The Young Woman's Name Was Neda

Iran Election 2009 – Measuring the Response

Air France Flight 447

North Korea Jails Two Journalists

Mexico – The Drug War and The Demand

China – Remembering Tienanmen Square

Pakistan's Misplaced Ideals

North Korea's Wild Dreams

Israel-Palestine and the Two-State Solution

President Obama Addresses the Muslim World

NATIONAL

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JUNE 2010

Should Oiled Seabirds Be Cleaned or Killed?

BP Taps $20 Billion to Fund Oil Spill Claims

Life in These United States 2050

Marching Orders: General McChrystal Relieved of Command

Drawing a Line in the Oil

"Poli-Tech" -- Former Silicon Valley CEO's Win Primaries

Well of Sisyphus: BP Aims for 20,000 Barrels a Day

Remembering America's Veterans on Memorial Day 2010

MAY 2010

The Big Spill -- The Long Straw and Other Solutions

Primary Lessons in a Long Hot Election Season

Supreme Court Gives Some Young Hoodlums a Break

Is New Space Plan One Giant Leap Backward?

Elena Kagan, A Nominee from Outside the "Judicial Monastery"

Looking at the Broader Issues of Illegal Immigration

$10-Million A Day Oil Spill Battle Falters in the Deep

Reflections on the Plot to Bomb Times Square

"Prepare for the Worst" -- Facing a Real and Present Catastrophe

X-37b -- U.S. Air Force Launches "Mini-Me" Shuttle

APRIL 2010

What Can be Done About Kids Who Terrorize Kids?

The Big Uneasy: Four Out of Five Americans Don't Trust Government

Presidential Memo to Hospitals: Visitation Rights for Gay Couples

Will U.S. Nuclear Pact Make the World Safer?

Rethinking America's Nuclear Strategy

On the Tragedy at Upper Big Branch Mine

From Sea to Sea: Expanded Off Shore Drilling Plan Makes Waves

Strident Spring -- Gauging a Stormy Political Season

MARCH 2010

Health Care Reform Vote 219-212

For the Yeas: "A People Capable of Doing Great Things"

For the Nays: "An Unconscionable Abuse of Power"

Gail Collins on Lessons We Learn from Political Sex Scandals

Count Basics: Making Sense of Census 2010

Ten Voices, Young and Old, Sound Off About Health Care Reform

Ground Zero $675 Settlement-- What Price Heroism?

Those Magnificent Women -- Soaring Honors for Wasps of World War II

The Chief Justice Protests a "Very Troubling Moment"

Dawn and Tilikum, the Orca Thoughts on the Tragedy at SeaWorld

Ayes on Senator Brown: "A Strong Step Toward Restoring Bipartisanship"

FEBRUARY 2010

The Visitor: China Tramps on White House Welcome Mat

Backflow from Joe the Plumber Muddies the Waters

Nuclear Regeneration Guarantees First New Plant in Three Decades

World's Best Golfer Vow "to Become a Better Man"

One in Three American Kids Fat: "Let's Move," says Michelle Obama

Tea Party: Strong Brew or Tempest in a Teapot?

Healthcare Spending All-Time High, Uncle Sam Predicted to Pay 50.4%

Sex, Lies and Honor: The Move to Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" Policy

Punxsutawney Phil, Prognosticator of all Prognosticators: "Six More Weeks!"

With $3.8 Trillion Budget Proposal, See How the Debt Clock Runs

The Battle for Braddock: Can Stimulus Forge a Future for Old Steel Towns?

JANUARY 2010

A Man and His Truck -- Mr. Brown Goes to Washington

"Some are frustrated; some are angry" -- Rating the President's Speech

Was Harry Reid Right? asks The Root

Senior Momentum: 150,000 Angry Members Retire from the AARP

"They Still Can't." -- Connecting the Dots of Terrorism

The Naked Response to Full Body Scans

The Failed Bombing and the Cycle of Terror

OCTOBER 2009 — DECEMBER 2009

Is Happiness a Louisiana State of Mind?
Final Push for Health Care Reform
Open in 2014: 22,000,000 Recovered White House E-Mails
Young Latinos and the Shape of Things to Come
$3.4 Billion for 100-Plus Years of Mismanaging American Indian Trust Funds

Ice-Storm: Sarah Palin Pens Op-Ed in WaPo, Whips Up Blizzard

American Isolationist Sentiment Soars to 45-Year High

The Enormous Cost of Feeding Our National Debt Monster

The Salahis Face the After-Dinner Music

Home To Thanksgiving: The Good, The Bad, and the Bountiful

"It's the Economy..." -- Tempers Flare on Both sides of the Aisle

"Full Measure of the Law" -- Manhattan Transfer for Trial of Terror Suspects

Gone Rogue -- Sarah Palin Takes Aim at Her Critics...And the Bestseller Lists

Pew Report on Ten Most Fiscally Endangered States

In Honor of Veterans Day, a Salute to All Who Served
Nidal Malik Hasan and the Ties That Blind
"Horrific Violence" -- The Rampage at Fort Hood
Election 2009 Wake-Up Call for Incumbents
Half of U.S. Kids on Food Stamps at Some Point
Burning Issue: Backyard Smoke Stokes Neighbors' Lawsuit
O, the Horrors of a "P.C" Halloween!
Hate Crimes Legislation -- The Legacy of Matthew Shepard
Swne Flu Declared a National Emergency
H1N1 Swine Flu - Will You Take the Vaccine or Not?
Balloon Boy's Magical Mystery Tour
Foreclosure Notices: "Worst Three Months of All Time."
Pentagon Recruitment Rises Amid Recession
Zachary Christie, 6: "I don't think the punishment should be this bad."
Navigating the Shoals of History with Columbus, Admiral of the Ocean Sea
Which Cities are the Smartest in America?
Pentagon Magazine Opens New Front in "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Death of an Honor's Student in Chicago
Roman Polanski -- Furore Over DIrector's Cut and Run
Glenn Beck's Call of the Wild
U.S. and Climate Change: Looking for Balance at Home and Abroad

JULY 2009 -- SEPTEMBER 2009

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Death of an Honors Student

Furore over Roman Polanski Cut-and-Run Case

Glenn Beck's Call of the Wild

U.S. And Climate Change – Looking for Balance at Home and Abroad

The Acorn Videos – A Community Organization's Problems Grow

President Carter on Race and the Roots of Disrespect

Health Care – Taking the Pulse of the Great Divide

9/11 – Never Forget, Never, Never, Never

Bob Herbert on “Problem America”

Talking Points: President Obama in the Classroom

California Station Fire – Fighting an Inferno Foot by Foot

Senator Edward Kennedy – A Lion of the Senate at Rest

CIA and Terror Suspects – A National Debate on Torture

“Hawaii 5-0” – Mixed Sentiments on Statehood Anniversary

Rep. Barney Frank's “Table Talk” Gets Tough

Health Care: America's Summer of Discontent

Tea and Democracy

New G. I. Bill – Honor's Dues

The President, The Policeman and the Professor

Senator Al Franken – Semper Fido

Walter Cronkite – The Way it Was

President Obama – “No Excuses”

F22 – Veto Threat

Sonia Sotomayor – Unavoidable Truth

Episcopal Church – The Bishop's Choice

CIA – Intelligence Design

Grave Horror

Michael Jackson – The Memories and the Music

Attacking Sarah Palin

On the 4th of July

These Truths …

Al Franken – Senator Elect

Governor Sanford - “Once Upon a Time...”

Supreme Court – Firefighters' Test

Voting Rights

Gay Rights – The Marriage Question

Bermuda – Uighurs Out in the Sun

President Obama and The New York Times

Guantanamo Prisoners

Sonia Sotomayor – “What if she happens to be a good judge?”

General Motors – “A Sale of Illusions?”

BUSINESS

MAY 2010

Amish Inc: How They Achieve a 95% Business Success Rate

Working 11-Hour Days is Bad for the Ticker

Euro Jangles Nerves

Riding the Recovery Roller Coaster

"Please, I Want Some More" -- Fannie Mae Asks for $8.4 Billion

Spring Sees 290,000 New Jobs; More Job-Seekers Come in from the Cold

An Oracle Says All That Glitters is... Goldman

Will New Tarmac Rules Leave Passengers Sitting Pretty?

This $175 Million Dollar Deal Ain't Peanuts

APRIL 2010

"Young, Exhausted and DIsposable:" Life and Work in a Chinese Factory

GM Revs Up Renaissance with $5.8 Billion Payback

Counting on the Abacus at Goldman Sachs

Twitter Begins to Sing for Its Supper

Why Are We Singing the Recovery Blues?

Father to Son -- Re-Branding the Tiger

New Prescription for Student Loans

U.K. Times to go Behind the Great Paywall of London

The Somali Pirates' Business Model -- Class A or Class B Shareholder?

Reacting to Google's China Syndrome?

MARCH 2010

Maestro Greenspan Regrets the Failure

Robert Reich on "Why the Recovery is a Sham"

$5 -- The Shocking Median Wealth of Single Women of Color

China Frets Over Friction with U.S.A.

Hell Freezes Over Iceland Bank Deal

More Hard Knocks for the U.S. Postal Service

Doing the Continental -- It's a Stretch for Passengers

Highs and Lows of New Credit Card Rules

FEBRUARY 2010

Next Crisis: Richard Branson Warns of Global Oil Crunch Within Five Years

The Stimulus One Year on the Road to Recovery

Cory Doctorow: When is the Digital Price Right?

Magazines on the Rack as Newsstand Sales Plummet

Paul Krugman: Deficit Horror or Deficit Hysteria

Uneasy Riders: Toyota's Crisis of Confidence

U.S. GDP Grows to 5.7%: Political Spin or Reliable Indicator?

Seven Reasons Why We Should Worry About the Economy

JANUARY 2010

"I Owe My Vote to the Company Store" -- Corporate Political Spending

For Readers of the New York Times, the Online Meter Will Soon Be Ticking

Crafting a New Deal for Cadbury

What Will Come of Google's Challenge to China?

200 Best and Worst Jobs in America-- How Does Your's Rank?

GM Re-Invented Forecasts Profit in 2010

H&M Has a Serious Goodwill Problem

TV Wars -- For the Consumer, The Price is Not Right

Paul Krugman Looks Back to 1937 and the Ghosts of Depressions Past

Temping Fortune: Rising Numbers of Temporary Workers

OCTOBER 2009 — DECEMBER 2009

It's Time for Ben Bernanke. "The Great Influencer"
Will the Bankers of Wall Street Dance to a New Tune?
Matt Taibbi Unleashed: The Obama Economy, from Bailout to Give-Away

Obama's Job Plan Aims to Get Main Street Back to Work

All the News That's Fit to Sell -- Rupert Murdoch Wants Your Dollar

The Numbers Game: Counting Jobs Created and Saved

Paul Krugman on Jobs: Do We Need a New W.P.A?

The Big Box: Comcast Nets NBC

Mortgage Crunch: 14.4% Owners At Risk of Losing Homes

Generation X'ers Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

U.S Trade Gap Widens Sharply

The Man Who Would Stop Google
Official Unemployment rate at 10.2%; Unofficial Tally Hits 17.5%
Mr. Buffett Buys a Railroad
No Hard Times for Million-Dollar Private College Presidents
GDP's 3.5% Growth, A Slow Boat to Recovery
Harder Times: U.S. Newspapers Continue to Bleed Circulation
The Question Remains: "Is It the 30's Again?"
The Professor and the Board Game
"Golden" Sachs -- A Quarterly Profit of $3,190,000,000
Is the Writing on the Wall for E-Mail?
Truth in Advertising -- Raising the Bar on Bloggers
Mona Lisa "Un Royale Du' Frommage, "Merci!"
Robert Parker's Very "Blind" Wine Tasting
Gourmet -- The Final Course
The Sky Falls on Saturn
The Empty Promise of a Jobless Recovery
Twitter -- A Billion-Dollar Birdie Feathers Its Nest
Net Neutrality: Future Proofing a Free and Open Internet
Putting the Reins on Excessive Bankers' Pay

JULY 2009 -- SEPTEMBER 2009

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The Sky Falls on Saturn

Empty Promise of a Jobless Recovery

Twitter – A Billion-Dollar Birdie Feathers Its Nest

Net Neutrality – Future Proofing a Free and Open Internet

Putting the Reins on Excessive Bankers’ Pay

Pew Survey: In Media, We (Don’t) Trust

Wall Street – Lessons Learned One Year After the Fall

Harvard, Yale “Ivy-League Losses

Michael Moore’s Love-Hate Relationship With Capitalism

Warren Buffet in a Cautionary Mood

Unemployment Hits 26-Year-High of 9.7 Percent

U.S. Student Debt is Skyrocketing

None so Blind as the S.E.C.

Kids! – Ben Stein’s Cost-Benefit Analysis of Their Net Value

Disney’s $4-Billion Marvel

Bernanke 2.0

Garage Sales – Seller Beware!

Missing at the Mall – The American Shopper

The Condensed World of Reader’s Digest

GM Plans $4,000 Nano-Mobile

Taxing Time for Swiss Bank Secrecy

Banks to Reap $38 Billion Overdraft Fee Bonanza

Cash for Clunkers in High Gear

Paul Krugman on Where the Big Bucks Go

Wall Street Bonus Pinch

Ben Bernanke – Holding His Nose?

Minimum Wage

Time Out for Drug Commercials?

Real Misery Index

California High – Pot Stimulus

Goldman Sachs Mega Profits

Stimulus Package

GM – “Green Motors”

Pet Airways – “Lufthamster”

Jobs – 9.5% Unemployment

Jobless Forecast

Standing Room in the Sky

Madoff – 150

“Free” – Taking Points

Boeing Dreamliner

Calvin Klein Ad Target Audience

Financial Regulatory Report Balancing Act

Goldman Sachs Bonuses

Paris Air Show – Sound Path

Budget Deficit – A gas tax?

Boston Globe on the Red Line

Jobless to 9.4 Percent

Benefit Spending

Murdoch on Newspapers

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SCI|TECH

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MAY 2010

Jumping Jupiter! Where's the Belt?

Creativity for Richer or Poorer with YouTube

Stepping Stones to Synthetic Life

Facebook Farrago of Privacy and Profits

Who's That Neanderthal I Saw You With?

Google E-Books in Time for Summer Reading

Is Internet Explorer's World Shrinking?

Be Afraid: Stephen Hawkins Sees Danger in Contacting Aliens

Hubble at 20 -- Light on the Mystical Mountain

Facebook -- To Like or Not to Like the Changes?

APRIL 2010

2012 -- Dr. Doomsday's Bunker to Die For

Privacy Watchdogs to Google: "Don't Be Evil"

The Great Hall of Tweets

iCensor? -- Apple Bans Political Cartoonist Mark Fiore's App

Should Anonymous Online Comments Be Banned?

Taking Sides on Net Neutrality

Does iPad Live Up to the Hype?

Large Hadron Collider Begins the Great Adventure

Door of Perception: An Ancient Portal to the AfterLife

Spam, Spam, Spam -- 50% of Internet Users Still Open Risky E-Mails

Richard Branson's Galactic Dream Takes its First Flight

MARCH 2010

How Internet Data Mining Can Strip Away Your Privacy

Something to Goggle At: Google TV

True to Type: "Keyboard Kops" Could Use Bacteria to Identify You

"Free Money" and Other E-Lures Net Scammers $559.7 Million in 2009

Happy_25th_Birthday.com

Will the Desktop Go the Way of the DInosaur?

Pinned Down: Mariposa Botnet That Infested 12.7 Million Computers

Eye on the Pupil: Probing a School's Web Cam Spying

Snakes Alive! A 65-Million-Year-Old Fossil Reveals Dino-Eating Serpent

FEBRUARY 2010

Is Computer Engineer Barbie a Pink Girl or a Geek Girl?

A Twitter First: Big Trouble for Twit Who Posted Bomb Hoax

Cyber Shockwave: "Dr Strangelove 2011" or Real and Present Danger?

Cold Case: Malaria not Murder Felled "Frail" Boy-King Tut

Should Computers Be More Forgetful?

Buzzing the Buzz About Google Buzz

Taking an Aircruise in a Fabulous Flying Machine of the Future

Bye-Bye Birdie -- Sun CEO Tweets Resignation

What Recession? Internet 419 Scammers Netted $9.3 Billion in 2009

IPad Lands on Sea of Expectations

JANUARY 2010

Thumbs Down for Truckers, Bus Drivers Texting

Robo-Warbots Deploy Beyond the Realms of Sci-Fiction

Anatomy of a Twitter Mob

Bing-Go! Purging User Search Records

What's on the Slate for Personal Computers

White Dwarf Star Threatens Earth -- In Ten Million Years

It's a Wonderful Water-World

OCTOBER 2009 — DECENBER 2009

The Enemy Preys on the Predator with a $26-Hack
Al Qaeda Mines the Web for Terror Recruits
"Info-Nami:" Americans Swamped by 34 Gigabytes of Content Daily

Richard Branson Takes One Giant Step Closer to Space

Why Google Public DNS Is Good News for the Web

U.K. Anti-Piracy Squad offers £20,000 to Snitches

When Evan Ratliff Went Missing

The Image Problem: Why Google Did the Right Thing

Will Google Chrome O.S. Boot the Competition?

The Man Who Invented E-Mail

Glow-in-the-Dark Bacteria That Finds Landmines

NASA find water -- And "The Woman in the Moon"

Facebook and the Headteacher Who Cried Foul

Read the Manual -- More Women than Men Do!
Take Your Pick -- 100,000 Apple Apps
Is Social Media Making Us More or Less Social?
First Internet Message Sent 40 Years Ago ...And Lo! A Crash!
Facebook of the Dead
Apple's Magic Mouse Scurries Ahead of New Family
A Finn's Right to Pursuit of Life, Liberty and Broadband
Will You Curl Up with a Good E-Book Tonight?
Computing Shakespeare -- The Forms of Things Unknown
Target Cabeus -- Taking a Shot at the Moon
Hardy "Ardi" walks Homid Record back 4.4 Million Years
The Soaring Mission of Guy Laliberte. First Clown in Space
Home Together: PCs and Macs Under the Same Roof
Putting the Vroom-Vroom Back in Electric Cars
Russian Billionaire Zaps Pesky Paparazzi with Anti-Photo Shield

JULY 2009 -- SEPTEMBER 2009

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Seeing Red on Mars

Mini T.Rex – “Jaws on Legs” Just Nine Feet Long

Gene Therapy Has Color-Blind Monkeys Seeing Red and Green

Facebook Logs 300,000,000 Users and Positive Cash Flow

What a Wonderful Universe! – Hubble’s New Images

Clash of the Titans – Amazon Vs. Google Books

The House of Tweets – Where Even a Mouse is Heard Twittering

Facebook and Twitter: Dumb or Dumber?

Newspaper Classifieds VS Craigslist – The Simplicity Pattern

Multi-tasking: When More May Be Less

Internet Detox – Re-wiring Cyber Junkies

Spitting Image – Faking DNA Evidence

The Great Credit Card Hack – At the Heart of the Issue

Stone Age Tools firing Up the Imagination

Feeding the Internet Rumor Mill

Space Junk – The Litter We Can’t Ignore

“Loose Lips Sink Ships”

All of a Twitter – Evan and Sara and Baby Makes Three

Twitter – On Her Majesty’s Service

Robo Warrior – Vega-Might

Google VS Microsoft

E-Books Here and Now

The Light Relief of E-Texts

People in Glass Houses

Broken Link?

I Spy Facebook

Blackberry Manners

Steve Jobs – Health Questions

Kindle – Newspapers

Kids and Texting

I Phone Apps

Facebook Name Grab

Digital TV

Palm Pre

China’s PC Spyware

Microsoft Bing

Cyber Czar

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HEALTH/EDUCATION

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MAY 2010

Stressed? Call Mom and Chill Out

ADHD and Pesticides Study Shows Growing Concern

No Clear Signal from Cell Phone Cancer Study

Getting Mixed Signals About Allergies

Environmental Cancer Risk May Be Greater Than We Think

Such Sweet Sorrows? -- Chocolate and Depression

The Gobbledygook Police Want to Make It Plain

Should Salt Lose Its Savour?

APRIL 2010

Good News: Maternal Deaths Decline Worldwide

"Too Fat to Fight" -- Are School Lunches a National Security Threat?

Much Ado About Cilantro

To Spank or Not to Spank? - Study Says Toddlers Can Become Aggressive

SeaWeed-Munching Gene Makes the Sushi Go Down

Rewriting History from the Right

Is Junk Food Addictive?

FDA Raises Heat on Tanning Beds

Slim Chance? -- Study Recommends 60 Min Exercise for Women Every Day

Artistic Fare Super-Sizes Last Supper

MARCH 2010

Getting the Lowdown on Good Fat, Bad Fat

Promise of a Better Gene Test for Autism

Sniffing Sudden Death -- Teens and Pre-Teens Who Turn to Inhalants

The Sickening Cost of Tainted Food: $152 Billion a Year

Beware the Threat of the Humble Hot Dog

Doctors Working Fewer Hours Could Thin Future Ranks

FEBRUARY 2010

Look on the Bright Side and Live Longer

Sweet Truth: Chocolate is Good for You

A Lamb to the Slaughter, A Teacher to the Wall

Gene Breakthrough Addresses Stuttering

Drawing New Lines on Mental Disorders

Cheers to Your Health: Beer May be Good for Dem Bones!

Pig to Human Lung Transplants a Breath Closer

The Lancet Bursts an Anti-Vaccine Bubble

L.A. Pot Clinics Get Smoked by City Council

Meet Generation M2 -- Kids Plugged Into Media 7+ Hours a Day

JANUARY 2010

Fish Oil May Slow Genetic Aging in Heart Patients

Many Appendectomies May Not Be Needed

It's a Hard Day's Night for the Sleep Deprived

Taking Less Than a Pinch of Salt

Taking a Closer Look at Lasik Eye Surgery

Why an Earful of Background Music Can Be Stressful

New York City Heroin Pamphlet Sparks Controversy

The Highs and Lows of Academic Text Book Pricing

Cracking the Gene Code for Lung and Skin Cancer

OCTOBER 2009 — DECEMBER 2009

Shedding Light on the CT Scan Radiation Risk
An Extra Cup of Joe May Help Against Prostate Cancer
The Sickening State of Many Intensive Care Units

World Aids Day -- "What If They Lived?", A Sad Recall of Fallen Friends

Spreading the Blues: Lonely Hearts Can Be Contagious

Dying in the U.S.A. -- The Sad but True Cost of "End-of-Life-Care"

Mammography Guidelines Spark New Debate on Tests for Women in 40's

Great American Smokeout -- Secrets of Quitting for Good

Swine Flu -- Putting the CDC Estimates in Perspective

Mom's the Word: Newborns Cry With an Accent
The Greatest Health Care System in the World
The Opt-In Opt-Out Public Option
Baby Einstein's Wake-Up Call
Cancer Society Rethinking Aggressive Screening
Clearing the Air on Medical Marijuana
Math Scores Flat-Line After 20-Year Climb
Popping the Question on a Soda Tax?
School Stimulus Funds Don't Add Up
Autism Rate of About 1 in 100 Children Higher Than Thought
Can Lots of Candy Make Kids Grow Up to Be Wild?
Glimmer of Hope in HIV Vaccine Test
Artificial Noses -- Sniffing Out the Future

JULY 2009 -- SEPTEMBER 2009

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Is the Writing on the Wall for Good Penmanship?

Health Premiums Up 131% in 10 Years and Rising

Texting While Driving – And Sudden Death

H1N1 – CDC’s Dire Flu Forecast

ADHD Drugs – Attention on Teen Abuse

Mozart’s Death – Strep Theory?

Talking About the “End of Life”

Sad in America – Antidepressant Use Doubles

Haggling Over Haggis

Sunshine Boys and Girls – “D-Minus”

Who’s Napping Now?

Small Business Struggles with Health Care

Health Care Reform and the Fear of Change

Debating Health Care at Ground Level

Fathers DO Matter

New Prescription for Harry and Louise

U.K. Swine Flu Predictions

Road Age

Basic Food Safety

An Amazing Grace

Fat America

Pew Report on Ageless Wisdom

Youth and Health Care Reform

Mediterranean Diet Benefits

FDA Tobacco Regulation

Alcohol – Good For You?

An American in the U.K. on Health Care

Alternative Medicine – Sorting Real from Fake

Medical Malpractice Suits – Where’s the Outrage?

Abortion Clinic Killing

A Disgrace in Health Care

Octomom’s Right to be with Her Kids

The DNA of Swine Flu

Success in the National Spelling Bee

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SPORTS/ENTERTAINMENT

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MAY 2010

Sandra Bullock's Lil'Man from the Big Easy

Floyd Landis Comes Clean, Sullies Rest of Field

Lost Finale is Grist for Fan Mill

"Nude, Green Leaves and Bust" -- A Picasso Sells for $106.5 Million

Did Betty White Rock SNL Back to Life?

Heft-Ty Donation Saves Hollywood Sign

APRIL 2010

Justin Bieber, from YouTube to My World

O, My, You Don't Say, Kitty Kelley

Phil Mickelson Wins With Style

Real Time Clock Runs Out for 24

Peter Graves Has the Last Word: "That's Clarence Ouvre, Over."

MARCH 2010

The Hurt Locker Sweeps the Ground at Oscars

Hurt Locker Takes Flak from Front Lines

Here's Looking at What Makes Oscar Run

Rare as Kryptonite: A Million-Dollar Superman Comic

Here's Looking at What Makes Oscar Run

FEBRUARY 2010

Vonn-Tastic -- Winningest Woman at Whistler Downhill

Tragedy on the Ice

Olympic Pride Shines on Vancouver

Judging Ellen: Idol Fans Have Their Say

Hallelujah! The Saints Touchdown in the Promised Land

"I Am Ozzy and Still Have Naughty Thoughts"

Still Griping About the Grammys -- "Give Her a Break, WIll Ya?"

JANUARY 2010

CBS Crunches Gay Dating Ad

When the Saints Come Marching In

Two Men and a Show -- Making Waves with the Leno-O'Brien Feud

Sandra Bullock's Shining Hour

All Steamed Up About Jersey Shore

Brittany Murphy: A Star, Tragically Interrupted

OCTOBER 2009 — DECEMBER 2009

Golden Globes Take Flight with "Up in the Air"
Good Morning George! -- A New Day Dawns at ABC
September 2010 -- The End of the "World," as CBS Knew It
Tiger Woods in the Rough -- The Noise from the Gallery

Donny Osmond Dances to the Stars

Oprah Winfrey Hopes to Channel Millions of Viewers to "Own" Show

Lou Dobbs Weighs Anchor at CNN

The Good Soldier -- The Courage to Tell It the Way It Was

Andre Agassi -- Hard Lessons for "The Punisher"
For Nicholas Cage, A Treasure Found, A Treasure Lost
This Is It! -- The Last Thriller from Michael Jackson
Bill Cosby's Humor Takes the Mark Twain Prize
Artist Shepard Fairey's Mistaken Hope
Meghan McCain Strikes a Pose
"D'OH!" -- Marge Simpson Poses for Playboy
Levi Johnson Buffs Up for Playgirl
Don Imus on the Trail of the Fox
Banned in Venezuela -- "Family Guy" Stokes the Ire of President Hugo
Much Ado About the F-Bomb
Memo to BBC Bosses: "Hire More Older Women Presenters"
Swiss Miss at Met -- A Chorus of Boos

JULY 2009 -- SEPTEMBER 2009

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Dan Brown: Symbols Lost and Found

Un-Serene Serena

Caster Semenya Controversy

Ellen Has Heart for American Idol

All You Need Is the Beatles Re-Mastered

Dancing with DeLay

A Trip in the State of Mind – Woodstock at 40

Michael Vick’s Second-Chance Line

Rock and Roll of Ages

Idol Choice: Paula Abdul Votes Herself Off

Big Papi and a Red Sox Nation’s Blues

Jay-Z “Foreign Policy” Rap

John and Kate + 8

Bruno

Michael Jackson R.I.P.

Simon Cowell, $144,000.000 Man?

Karl Malden, a Salt-of-the-Earth Character

Farewell Farah Fawcett

Ed McMahon

Jon and Kate Break Up

Letterman-Palin

Katie Holmes – Can She Dance?

Tony Awards – Billy Elliot Has Legs

David Carridine

Jay Leno Retires

Susan Boyle – A Place in the Sun

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PEOPLE

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MAY 2010

The Lady in the Hat -- Dorothy Height, Godmother of Civil Rights Movement

Ronnie James Dio, The Polite Powerhouse of Hard Rock

Malawian Gay Couple's Draconian Sentence

Laura Bush Speaks from the Heart

Time for the Chosen 100 of 2010

Whimsical, Wonderful Lynn Redgrave Remembered

Through Stormy Weather with Lena Horne

APRIL 2010

Ann Coulter Blames Canada

The Sum of Her Parts -- The $12-Million Woman

Alan Sillitoe, The Legacy of a Long-Distance Writer

Malcolm McClaren, Provocateur of Punk

Aijalon Mahli Gomes -- Eight Years Hard Labor in North Korea

MARCH 2010

"This Week" -- Christine Amanpour Takes Seat at Round Table

"Devil Is In the Vatican," says Chief Exorcist Father Gabrielle Amorth

Requiem for a Lost Boy, Cory Haim

The Kid Stays Out of The Tower

The Dog Lady's Chain of Hope

Alexander Haig, Warrior-Diplomat Who Weathered Watergate Storm

FEBRUARY 2010

Design Mourns Alexander McQueen, "Bad Boy of British Fashion"

Philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy Falls Victim to Rare Strain of "Botulism"

All the President's Children: Jacob Zuma's Love Child Rocks the Cradle

Chef Ferran Adria Shutters World's Best Restaurant for Two Years

Into the Silence: J.D. Salinger, Author of Catcher in the Rye

Howard Zinn, People's Historian of the United States

JANUARY 2010

Fox Vox: Sarah Palin Inks Contributor Deal with Network

Little Charlie Simpson's Big Ride: A 7-Year-Old Raised $200,000 for Haiti

Jean Simmons, A Rose of England

Robert B. Parker, The Grand Master of Mystery

"Such A Joy" -- The Heart and Soul of Teddy Pendergrass

First Lady Jenny Sanford Has Her Say

Remembering Kim Peek, The "Mount Everest of Human Memory"

OCTOBER 2009 — DECEMBER 2009

Oral Roberts Remembered
Paul Samuelson -- The Math-Maker of Economics
Cpl. Frank Buckles' Long March to Washington

The New Trial of John Demjanjuk

Belle de Jour -- All In the Interest of Science

Claude Levi-Strauss, The Man Who Read the Savage Mind
Dr. Josef Mengele and the Twins Who Survived Auschwitz
Soupy Sales: "How Come Every Time I Write 'F' You See 'K'?"
The Silver Lions -- Slate Magazine's 80-Over-80 Most Powerful Octogenarians
Catholic Church Opens Door to Disaffected Anglican Flock
40,000 Brides and Grooms United in Global Wedding
Edgar Allen Poe -- The Belated Burial
Nobel Laureate Herta Muller -- Out of the Shadows of Ceausescu
The Great Permitter -- William Safire, Master of the Right Word
Muammar Gaddafi's Removable Feast

JULY 2009 -- SEPTEMBER 2009

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Patrick Swayze – Noble Son of Hollywood

Jim Carroll Knocking at the Door of the Hotel Chelsea

Alan Turing – An Apology for Inhumanity Toward a Hero

Erick Kunzle, Cincinnati’s Prince of Pop

Laura Ling and Euna Lee: “A Minute We Deeply Regret”

Dominick Dunne, Chronicler of the Rich and Infamous

Michael Jackson’s Final Farewell at Forest Lawn

Les Paul – “Now the Time Has Come to Part”

The Special Legacy of Eunice Kennedy Shriver

All Quiet for Private Harry Patch

Amelia Earhart Flying Rumors

A Yellow Ribbon for Corozon Aquino

Frank McCourt’s Life Lessons

The Murder of Natalia Estemirova

Darrell “Shifty” Powers, One of a Band of Brothers

Robert S. McNamara, “An old man reading his book…”

Michael Jackson, “The Candle that Burns Twice as Brightly…”

Karl Malden, “A Salt-of-the-Earth” Character

Farewell Farah Fawcett

Ed McMahon, The Forevernight Show

Madonna and Mercy

Cry Burma -- Aung San Suu Kyi

Tim Russert, An All Round Good Guy

Lotto Winner Neal Wanless and the Media

J.D. Salinger – A Sorry Sequel

David Carradine

Prince Harry

Phil Specter, End of Story

ENVIRONMENT

MAY 2010

Cape Wind Farm on the Horizon

Are Lizards Threatened by Global Climate Change?

APRIL 2010

Did Toads Tumble to Italian Tremblor?

Study Shows Many Farmers Reaping Benefits from Biotech Crops

The Great Atlantic Wind Farm -- Power to a Seaboard Grid?

Budget Threat: A Plague of Grasshoppers on the Horizon

Earth Hour: Is an Hour of Darkness a Bright Idea?

Black Day for Blue Fin

MARCH 2010

Swiss Nix Lawyers for Fido, Fluffy and Fish

How Should Global Warming Be Taught in the Classroom?

Six Reasons Why the Bloom Box is a Bright Idea

FEBRAURY 2010

Aussie P.M. Sounds Off Against Japanese Whaling

Fewer Foggy Days Threaten California Redwoods

On Walden Pond Invasive Species Thrive in Changing Climate

President Obama Fuels the Nuclear Debate

JANUARY 2010

Himalayan Glacier Retreat, "Not so Fast," says U.N. Panel

The Loss of the Sea Shepherd Ady Gil

The High Cost of Mountaintop Coal Mining

"Herring Today, Gone Tomorrow" -- The Vanishing Sea Lions of Pier 39

How the Term "Blue Moon" Came About

Beware the Evil Eye of the Conniving Goat

Octopus's Guarding

OCTOBER 2009 — DECEMBER 2009

Monster Iceberg 12-Miles Long Drifts Toward Australia
Solar Impulse's 30-Second "Hop" to the Future

The Great Chicago Fishkill - Combating the Asian Carp

Where's the Beef From?

Shifting Gears on Plug-In Cars

The Vanishing Snows of Kilimanjaro
Girdng Up for a Smart Grid
Archbishop Rallies Home Gardeners to Combat Climate Change
Bagheera Kiplingi: "I'll Have the Vegetarian Menu, Please"
Preserving the "Stability of the Species" on the Galapagos
American Dianas take to the Hunt in Drives
Taking a Swipe at Toilet Paper

Nuclear Power -- Part of Future Energy Mix?

JULY 2009 -- SEPTEMBER 2009

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Norman Borlaug, The Man Who Helped Feed the World

Man’s Best Friend First Bred for the Table?

Crosshairs: The Hunt for the Gray Wolves of Idaho

Ozone Layer is No Laughing Matter

Searching for Green Power On and Off the Grid

Robert Redford and the Renewing of the Old West

Stone the Crows! The World’s Cleverest Bird

Northwest Glaciers – Shrink Rap on Global Warming

Forcing the Issue of Foie Gras

Bill Gates – Hurricane Killer?

Shrinking Cities

Ant Mega-Colony

T. Boone Pickens Downwind

Global Warming and the Ongoing Debate

The Fly

Climate Change – A Green Subsidy?

Global Warming and Extreme Weather