May 29 Paul Krugman on Debt, but Are Soaring Interest Rates Running Against Him? By Paul Solman By Paul Solman Nobel Prize-winning economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman. Still from NewsHour video. Paul Solman: The big brouhaha in economics recently, about which I posted some weeks ago, has pitted Nobel Prize-winning economist and New… Continue reading
May 29 Looking to the Past in Caring for Aging Americans in the Future President Lyndon Johnson hands a pen from the signing of the Older Americans Act to an unknown woman on July 14, 1965. Photo by Yoichi Okamoto and courtesy of the LBJ Library. It's been nearly 50 years since President Lyndon… Continue reading
May 29 15 Young Go-getters You’ll Want to Meet By Cat Wise One of the participants in Nest, an organization that offers business consulting in developing countries. Photo courtesy of Nest. Over the last six months, the PBS NewsHour's Agents for Change series… Continue reading
May 29 Signs of Alzheimer’s Disease: 10 Things You Should Know Rebecca Wyant (left) is the primary caregiver for her mother Mary, who suffers from Alzheimer's. Photo by Mike Fritz / PBS NewsHour Mary Wyant loved words. She loved to speak them and write them and read them. She was… Continue reading
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May 28 Building a Pressure Cooker Bomb On Tuesday's PBS NewsHour, Miles O'Brien visits the nation's most active explosives test facility, where scientists investigate the bombs that were detonated at the finish line of the Boston Marathon. Screen grabs from PBS NewsHour/NOVA It's a strange phone… Continue reading