Britain’s top spy falls into comaUK’s Joint Intelligence Committee Chairman in coma; results of toxicology tests not released.
Tennessee counties drop Maximus; child support enforcement returns to DA’s officeA press release from Dunavant’s office cited Maximus’ “declining efficiency in performance measures” and “numerous complaints from clients of the program that the current private company is not effective in serving the best interests of the children of th
Mother in cancer case lost custody of older childThe Salem mother charged with failing to give her 8-year-old son his cancer medications has a history of involvement with the Department of Social Services and police and lost custody of an older child, officials confirmed yesterday.
Fox News reclaims lead in top demographic audience overall…but media rivals CNN and MSNBC show aggressive rise in the first half of 2008
Seniors Increasingly Facing BankruptcyStudy shows steady increase in personal bankruptcy filings among the elderly
Brinkley divorce trialCook:”Shrek was more believable”
What Really Killed Bear Stearns?Did Bear Stearns melt down — or was it murdered?
Paulson says US economy set to strengthen US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said here on Thursday that the US economy would most likely be stronger at the end of 2008, even as oil prices surged to new records above 146 dollars.
Analyst sees ‘ghost town’ in California’s “Inland Empire”A financial analyst fresh from a tour of construction sites in the Inland Empire is warning Wall Street of a “ghost town” where finished homes sit vacant and additional homes are still under construction.
Study shows “Spiritual” effects of mushrooms last a yearThe “spiritual” effects of psilocybin from so-called sacred mushrooms last for more than a year and may offer a way to help patients with fatal diseases or addictions, U.S. researchers reported on Tuesday.
Baby cut from woman’s wombKennewick, Washington, police report that a pregnant woman was fatally stabbed multiple times in the chest and her nearly full-term baby was cut from her womb. Police have arrested a 23-year-old woman.
Scientists set sights on invisibility cloaksTeams of scientists around the globe say they’re making progress on theories and experiments involving cloaking — that is, making things invisible.
WETZSTEIN: The good, bad and ugly of divorceFew people, if any, would call themselves pro-divorce, at least in polite company. But are you anti-divorce? Or anti-anti-divorce?
Politically Incorrect Domestic ViolenceThe words “domestic violence” typically invite images of bruised women and children — and male perpetrators.
‘If you mention intelligent design… you do get mugged’Ben Stein, front man of the documentary Expelled, is unapologetic in his harsh view of Darwinism
Spray-on Condom a Sticky WicketThe mention of a spray-on condom on a recent episode of CSI: NY created a surge of interest in the product, with the three bizarre little words making their way to second place last week on Google Trends, which tracks the Internet’s most popular search te
One in 10 middle-aged people had “silent strokes”: studyRoutine brain scans in a group of middle-aged people showed that 10 percent of them had suffered a stroke without knowing it, raising their risk for further strokes and memory loss, U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
Fed aided Wall Street to avert “contagion”The Federal Reserve was scrambling to prevent a “contagion” from infecting the nation’s financial system when it took unprecedented actions to back a Bear Stearns rescue package and provide emergency loans to big Wall Street firms.
Fathering in America: What’s a Dad Supposed to Do?Americans seem more confused than ever about the role of fathers in children’s lives.
Bill Gates rips Microsoft over XPSo I did the download. That part was fast. Then it wanted to do an install. This took 6 minutes and the machine was so slow I couldn’t use it for anything else during this time.Then it told me to reboot my machine. Why should I do that? I reboot every nig
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Paul Edwards interviews Stephen Baskerville on the state of marriage and divorce in America.
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