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"Beep, beep!" I turned around in the hospital corridor and faced a kind of traveling file cabinet molded out of plastic. No one pushed it. Two lights flashed on …

Chicago - Happy Meals in San Francisco are about to become a little less happy, and my smile has been super-sized. Not because I don't love Happy Meals. On …

Erskine Bowles and former Sen. Alan Simpson, co-chairs of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, today released their draft proposal for reducing the country's budget deficit. The …

It takes a Harvard MBA to raze an economy. Perhaps that is too narrow a judgment given that a law degree from that institution or from Yale University seems …

The bible-thumping white underclass have given a big boost to the corporate bottom line. Tens of millions of American voters got duped badly in the 2010 election. The bible-thumping …

But current technology can reduce ship pollution 90%, and a House committee is weighing law to reduce black carbon emissions. In the next few decades, a warming Arctic will …

Remember what Vice President Biden told Jonathan Alter in "The Promise"? At the conclusion of an interview in his West Wing office, Biden was adamant. "In July of …

The absence of democratically elected successors could potentially plunge the country into chaos, adding a political crisis to the death and destruction caused by the January 12 earthquake. - …

Washington - The drone war that has been anticipated in Yemen for the last few months has been delayed by the failure of U.S. Special Operations Forces (SOF) to …

The 2010 elections revealed yet again the peculiar habits of the US electorate. The majority of eligible voters – about 60% - did not vote despite the months of …