World Feb 03 Pass ‘Go’ in Monopoly, collect more than $20,000 Eighty lucky Monopoly players in France will find themselves pulling in the dough -- and not in the play money variety. By Justin Scuiletti
Science Apr 07 NASA explores the fashionable frontier Online voters can select one of three designs that will be used as a cover to protect the spacesuit from abrasions while astronauts train in multiple vacuum chamber tests and at a rocky Martian surface analog site at the… By Margaret Myers
Oct 30 Watch Excerpt: McConnell is confident he’ll win 2014 GOP primary Excerpt: McConnell is confident he'll be re-elected in 2014 Republican primaries…
Politics Jan 03 Watch How Divided Are Iowa’s Republican Voters? Recent days turned Iowa into a three-way grudge match -- with GOP hopefuls looking to gain momentum coming our of the first contest of the primary season. Gwen Ifill discusses what to look for as the results roll in with…
Mar 03 Making Sen$e: ‘Feelin’ Lousy’ – Financially Groovy In Song By Paul Solman EDITOR'S NOTE: Last month, we featured a week-long series of songs by our country crooning friend Merle Hazard about the Euro-debt crisis: Spain, Ireland, Italy and Germany, and an encore of the infamous… Continue reading
Mar 03 Feelin’ Lousy- Financially Groovy In Song By Elizabeth Shell EDITOR'S NOTE: Last month, we featured a week-long series of songs by our country crooning friend Merle Hazard about the Euro-debt crisis: Spain, Ireland, Italy and Germany, and an encore of the infamous Greek… Continue reading
Feb 16 Merle Hazard and You: And the Winner Is… Today, an update on our country-country lyric contest, inspired by the econo-crooner Merle Hazard. Those of you who frequent these pages often will remember our series late last month where Merle lyricized about the financial crises in Spain,… Continue reading
Jan 28 From the Pain in Spain to Taxes in Naxos: Merle Hazard’s Euro-Serenades By Paul Solman All this week we've featured investment advisor Jon Shayne, aka Country-and-Western economist Merle Hazard, warbling his way through the European debt debacle. He started with the pain in Spain and moved on through Erin Go Broke… Continue reading
Jan 27 Ode to Germany: Merle Hazard, Backed by Beethoven By Paul Solman Today’s post introduces the fourth of country singer Merle Hazard’s Euro-shanties, this one taking off on the Ode to Joy from Beethoven’s 9th. Merle (if not Beethoven) will do anything to educationally amuse. So will we. But given the gravity… Continue reading