After growing up in a wealthy New York City suburb, Mira Riad, 32, could be leading a life of privileged leisure. Instead, the Egyptian-American attorney uses her good fortune to help the neediest Egyptians - orphans and street children. 米拉丽雅德...
Government health officials say the abuse of prescribed medications causes more accidental deaths in the United States than anything else except automobile crashes, which kill more than 30,000 Americans every year. Representatives of five federal age...
One of the most consequential battles in North American history occurred 175 years ago on a field just east of current-day Houston, Texas. In the battle of San Jacinto, on April 21, 1836, a ragtag Texas rebel army of about 900 men defeated some 1,500...
Inflation is hitting U.S. consumers hard. The last era of severe inflation was in the 1970s, when prices and wages spiraled upward. This time, while the official inflation rate is still relatively moderate, wages are stagnating and prices for essenti...
First Lady Michelle Obama has been making the talk-show rounds, plugging an exercise program called Lets Move. Designed to get Americas young people in motion, it is one of a number of efforts to attack the nations obesity epidemic. 美国第一夫人米...
Mentoring is a time-honored relationship, in which someone with more experience helps another with less, for purposes of growth, knowledge and support. Thats the idea behind Mentoring USA, a New York based non-profit organization that matches childre...
In Ukraine they call them Chernobylites. People affected by the accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in then-Soviet Ukraine. Residents evacuated after the April 26, 1986 disaster lost their homes as well as their health. And the workers sent...
Japan is the United States' fourth-largest trading partner, and trade had increased the first two months of this year -- before the earthquake and tsunami. Now the two busiest container ports in the United States are seeing the effects of the disaste...
Memory loss and mental confusion are the first overt signs of Alzheimer's Disease, an incurable and fatal brain ailment. 记忆力丧失和心智混乱，是老年痴呆症最先出现的症状。这是一种无药可治的脑部致命疾病。 But s...
The U.S. Civil War began 150 years ago this week and became the deadliest conflict in U.S. history. More than a century later, people are debating the reasons for the war, slavery versus states' rights. Some historians and civil rights leaders sugges...
