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    Study Pinpoints Link Between Fitness and Cancer in Men

    May 15, 2013 10:00 PM EST

    ... part of fitness, and so when you are being physically active and you're working out, you're contributing to your overall fitness. When we ask the participants to get on a treadmill, we're measuring their cardiorespiratory or cardiopulmonary fitness. That's the efficiency of oxygen consumption during maximum ...

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    Meet Taxi Driver Waleed Saad

    Mar 01, 2013 02:14 PM EST

    If you want to know the state of the economy in Egypt, just ask a taxi driver in Cairo.

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    News Wrap: Sen. Daniel Inouye Lies in State at Capitol Rotunda

    Dec 20, 2012 05:00 AM EST

    ... tourist: So, we're hoping for some sort of a contact event, and meet some beings of other species and we're basically hoping to just ask them for help. LINDSEY HILSUM: In the meantime, archaeologists keep trying to explain, it's the end of an era, not of the ...

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    New Study Links Athletes' Repetitive Head Injuries to Degenerative Brain Disease

    Dec 03, 2012 11:17 PM EST

    ... to this disease are years and years of exposure to many hits. And those hits may be relatively mild. JEFFREY BROWN: And, Mark, let me just ask you very briefly. You mentioned that lawsuit. Just tell us briefly where do things stand? That goes on, right? MARK FAINARU-WADA: Yes ...

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    In Efforts to Find a Budget Solution, Lawmakers Debate Tax Hikes, Entitlements

    Nov 27, 2012 11:02 PM EST

    ... and work together and solve these challenges. KEITH ELLISON: We do embrace talking about this. JEFFREY BROWN: Yes, you do embrace that. But let me just ask, Mr. Ellison, on that mandate question, would it be better, do you think, to have no deal than one that you think goes ...

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    Marijuana, Marriage, Gambling and Taxes Are Top Ballot Initiatives to Watch

    Nov 05, 2012 11:46 PM EST

    ... by Jennie Bowser. She's a senior fellow with the National Conference of State Legislatures. And we thank you for being with us. Let me just ask you to start out by helping us, reminding us what is the difference between a referendum, a ballot initiative and so forth. JENNIE ...

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    With Final Foreign Policy Debate Done, Candidates Start Swing State Sprint

    Oct 23, 2012 10:03 PM EST

    ... Foreign Relations, and former U.S. diplomat Nicholas Burns, now with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Welcome to you both. Let me just ask you to start.  Broadly speaking, what do we take away from last night's debate in terms of how well these two candidates ...

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    Syrian Crisis Inflames Lebanon-Syria Tensions as Lebanese Blame Assad for Bomb

    Oct 19, 2012 10:05 PM EST

    ... of interests together. And that has actually cost Hezbollah politically in Lebanon, being so publicly associated with the Syrian regime. JEFFREY BROWN: Well, let me just ask you finally, Abigail, personally there, what's the tension level at this point? How close does it feel to a return to the ...

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    Assessing Differences Between Obama's, Romney's Foreign Policy Platforms

    Oct 08, 2012 04:00 AM EST

    ... Romney had raised the critique in June of 2009. That's when you have to begin the story. JUDY WOODRUFF: All right, well, let me just ask you very quickly, would Governor Romney, for example, be more willing to let Israel go ahead and attack Iran if it came to ...

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    Conversation: Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass on Their New Film, 'Sleepwalk With Me'

    Aug 24, 2012 04:04 PM EST

    ... movie. It was very audience-tested in the way that my standup comedy actually is audience-tested, which was not by design but it was just sort of how it happened. JEFFREY BROWN: Let me just ask you both before I let you go, is it something you'd think ...