Life in the United States waxes increasingly strange,as Matthew B. Stannard reports today on the story of Chris Fredking, a technician at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center who has, by all accounts,...
The Copyright Protection Board recently handed down a royalties ruling that was initially due to come into effect on May 15,2007. Had it done so, many Internet Radio Broadcasters would have gone silent because the ruling calls for a whopping 300% increase in royalties and...
Internet radio broadcasters woke up yesterday morning thinking that it would be a matter of days before financial Armageddon. On May 15th, earlier rulings of the Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) were to go into effect, raising fees and royalties by a whopping 300%, sufficient to...
China is a resource hungry economy with interests all over Africa, and stories like this one are bound to become more common as the Chinese post nationals to out of the way but highly contested spots in the...
The Goldman Environmental Prize was awarded this year to a Zambian whose lifework is protection of elephant populations from poachers. Through an innovative program combining health care, loans, and showing the...
Ethiopia invaded Somalia last December to rid the land of the Islamic Courts Union, a group accused of harboring al-Qaeda The Ethiopians thought they would be out in two weeks, replaced by an African...
Robert Mugabe has appeared to survive, once again, a number of prophecies predicting his certain demise. But protests in the country are spreading, with the churches now aligned against the government. The police are...
Schering - Plough's leading drugs for cholestrol fighters rose 21% over a year to fuel record setting earnings for the company. The best sellers are co-marketed with Merck."posted a 55 percent rise in first-quarter earnings, beating analysts' estimates on sharply higher sales...
Pope Benedict's book, Jesus of Nazareth, sold more than 50.000 copies on its first day. Published in a new edition on the pontiff's 80th birthday, the book is the Pope's personal view of the life of Jesus and as such...
The FDA approved a vaccine against a strain of avian influenza on Tuesday, but the formula is only modestly effective. It provokes protective immunity in less than half of the recipients and requires two doses a month apart even for that....
While South Africa absorbs thousands of penniless fleeing refugees from Zimbabwe, its northern neighbor, Zambia, is reaping some unexpected economic benefits. Until quite recently considered a basket case in its own...
A new report from the nonpartisan Mathematica Policy Institute concludes that sex abstinence education programs do not make teenagers grow fonder. In fact, the programs have no effect at all. The U.S. Congress...
The U.S. State Department reports that Canada is the newest nation to join an international effort to prevent trafficking in illegally trapped or sold wildlife. The broad based intent of the coalition is to establish...
The Department of Homeland Security is developing new biophysical sensors and detectors designed to detect "hostile intent" on the part of people crossing borders."The novel program, named “Hostile Intent,” is geared towards detecting and gauging physiological and...
The Deputy Prime Minister of Somalia's transitional government today accused Ethiopia of genocide through its intervention in Somalia."The accusations came from Hussein Aideed - a former Somali warlord who is the deputy prime minister of the transitional government.
Ethiopia...