Sea Change of Japan?
A landslide victory for Japan’s opposition party could have profound effects on regional security.
Study offers clues on diet benefits without the diet
LONDON (Reuters) - Experiments which mimicked a low-calorie diet by tinkering with genes in mice extended their lives and prevented disease, and a drug that has the same effect could give people longer, healthier lives, scientists said on Thursday.
Overweight mothers linked to infant heart defects
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who are overweight or obese when they get pregnant are more likely to give birth to children with congenital heart defects, according to a U.S. government study released on Thursday.
Present at the Re-Creation
These seven liberal financial experts are our best hope for truly fixing the economy.
The Moral Equivalent of Anti-Slavery
Gender equality in developing countries may be the premier human-rights struggle of the 21st century — but first the rest of the world has to care.
Why Can’t Tom Perez Get Confirmed?
Obama’s pick for head of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is caught up in the same politicization that marked the Bush years.
Half of babies born in rich world will live to 100
LONDON (Reuters) - More than half of babies born in rich nations today will live to be 100 years old if current life expectancy trends continue, according to Danish researchers.
Glenn Beck’s Party
The message of the GOP is being delivered by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
Swine flu could overload U.S. hospitals: report
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Fifteen states could run out of hospital beds and 12 more could fill 75 percent of their beds with swine flu sufferers if 35 percent of Americans catch the virus in coming weeks, a report released Thursday said.
