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WASHINGTON — The latest scores from the ACT college entrance exam suggest many of this year's high school graduates aren't ready for college-level course work. In its annual score report released Wednesday, the testing company said only 38 percent of graduating seniors who took the exam hit the ...
... RAY SUAREZ: Now, why some community colleges are rethinking their approach to basic courses. The schools have long been a place where students are required to fill in gaps in their high school educations, but there are important questions about how well it works. And now there's a ...
KWAME HOLMAN: Dormant since the 2000 campaign, questions about President Bush's military service during the Vietnam War have resurfaced. According to military records and press reports, after graduating from Yale University in 1968, George W. Bush joined the Texas Air National Guard at the height of the Vietnam War ...
... similar happen here. We can’t simply cast our lot on good fortune. Instead, we need to do everything we can to fill the knowledge gaps that have the potential to do great harm in the wake of disaster. Watch Miles O'Brien's piece on Fukushima radiation contamination and ...
... procedures.Dirty bombs use conventional explosive devices to spread radioactive material, so while the casualties from such an event would be relatively low, the dispersed radiation would present a lingering threat to the area.According to Sen. Norm Coleman, R-Minn., who requested the investigations, "the economic and psychological effects ...
... That means more ozone over the hemisphere, less ultraviolet radiation at the surface." Earth's ozone layer shields life on the surface from harmful solar radiation, but man-made chlorine compounds that can last in the air for 100 years nibble at the ozone, creating thinning and a gap over ...
... same, but for the neutron stars, it takes time. As the stars swirled around each other, they began losing angular momentum which slowly closed the gap between them. Previous observations of black holes showed the merger happening in an audible “chirp” that lasted less than a second. Black holes quickly ...
... Kazuto Tatsuta, spent six months working for a subcontractor at the Fukushima plant in 2012, before resigning once he reached the legal annual limit of radiation exposure. Once off the site, he decided to give his extensive memories form through artwork, bringing to life what many say is an accurate ...
... six months swirled around one central phrase: Hodgkin's lymphoma. To most teenagers, simply: cancer. Seven years later, it's not the memory of chemotherapy, radiation or hair loss that sticks with Reilly most. It's the loneliness of that time -- the worried stares, isolation and realization that programs available ...
Hundreds of cities on the U.S. West Coast took part in the 2011 Great California ShakeOut earthquake drill on Thursday, just hours before a small tremor hit the San Francisco Bay Area. Science correspondent Miles O'Brien reports from Japan on efforts to predict big quakes before they hit.
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