HiddenHistorySavesAfrican-AmericanSchoolhouse When the tiny African-American community on Georgias St. Simons Island set out to save its one-room schoolhouse, it didn't realize the building was linked to an historic effort to combat racial discrimina...
Modern-dayTreasureHuntersPrizetheHunt There is a breed of modern day treasure hunter that utilizes the Internet, a knack for orienting and solving puzzles, and a sense of adventure to acquire its prize. But these 21st century explorers are not seekin...
MobileRestaurantRedefinesGreen,Organic In major metropolitan areas across the United States, food-vending trucks have become a common sight. For the truck merchants selling everything from fresh vegetables to fast food to fancy meals, they are an eas...
PanamaResearchInstituteDedicatedtoEarth'sEcosystem Every year, about 1,000 scientists from around the world visit the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama. The Institute is one of the oldest and largest facilities of its kind in the worl...
NigeriaPursuesal-QaidaAffiliatedTerroristsBehindUNBombing Nigerian security services are hunting for those behind last month's bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Abuja that killed 23 people. Muslim fundamentalists who claimed responsibilit...
Misrata Hospital Copes with Libya's War Wounded In Libya, forces opposed to former leader Moammar Gadhafi now control most of the country. But Gadhafi continues to evade capture and fighting continues in several important cities. The central coastal...
Scientists Try to Develop Safer Sleeping Sickness Cure Researchers say they've developed a safer way to treat sleeping sickness, a parasitic disease that is fatal if not treated. Sleeping sickness, or trypanosomiasis, is a chronic medical problem in...
New Species Might be Human Ancestor Fossils found in a South African cave might belong to a new species of early humans that holds a unique place on the evolutionary road to modern man. On a 2008 mapping expedition in Malapa, South Africa, American p...
Anti-GadhafiForcesSayReadytoTakePro-GadhafiStrongholds The head of Libya's National Transitional Council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, says the deadline has passed for a negotiated surrender of three cities held by pro-Gadhafi forces - Bani Walid, Sirte and...
Indigestion Can Protect Africa's Lions African lions are increasingly hunting domestic cattle. And many of them are being killed as humans retaliate. Now, in Botswana, a pilot project is underway to save the lion by making cattle taste bad. The king...
GeographyMeetsSocialMediaonGeosocialSites Theres a well-worn phrase in real estate: location, location, location, meaning that where a property is located, alone, means more than anything else when it comes to assessing its value. But location is get...
Sidestepping Newspapers, Comics Go Online When Randy K. Milholland was laid off 10 years ago, he used some of his idle time to create a Web comic called, Something Positive, featuring a lead character named Davan. When I started the comics off, he wa...
'Boomerang' Kids Return Home After College Going away to college used to be the ultimate flight of young people from the nest. It represented freedom for them and their parents alike. But last school year alone, instead of flying free, a whopping 85...
AmericansHoldSomberObservancesofSeptember11Attacks A decade after Islamic terrorists hijacked four passenger planes and turned them into weapons to claim nearly 3,000 lives, people in the United States on Sunday somberly marked the September 11 anniv...
America Marks 10 Years Since Sept. 11 Terrorist Attacks Americans have marked the 10-year anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks on the United States that killed nearly 3,000 people. Ceremonies were held in New York, at the Pentagon, and i...
