Nov 14 In Alaska, Sesame Chicken With a Side of Perspective Health Correspondent Betty Ann Bowser reports in Toksook Bay, Alaska. Somehow sesame chicken is never going to be quite the same ... and it's all because of Alaska. Trust me. Our health unit recently went there to do a… Continue reading
Oct 27 Military Photographer: ‘The Medic Could Not Get There Fast Enough’ Generations of Stacy Pearsall's family have worn uniforms: Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. So it probably wasn't much of surprise when she asked her parents to join the Air Force at the age of 17. She is a… Continue reading
Sep 30 Anwar al-Awlaki Describes Post-9/11 Mood in U.S.: Watch the Interview Editor's note: Anwar al-Awlaki, a high-level U.S.-born cleric linked to al-Qaida, was killed in Yemen Friday, according to U.S. and Yemeni officials. After the shooting at Fort Hood at 2009, suspected gunman Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan's relationship with al-Awlaki-became the… Continue reading
Sep 05 The Party’s Over: Post-revolution, Egyptians Struggle to Find Their Future By Margaret Warner Streets of Cairo. Photo by Jana Mills via Flickr Creative Commons. CAIRO, EGYPT -- What a difference seven months make. The Cairo I left on Feb. 12 -- the morning after Egypt's longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak abandoned the presidency… Continue reading
Jul 28 What’s Behind the Problem of Disappearing Bees? Photo by Flickr user net_efekt Bees, for some reason, seem to fascinate us. Perhaps it's their social structure: the queen, the workers, the drones, producing honey and baby bees and living their short lives in a super-organized way… Continue reading
May 27 Spirit No More: NASA Bids Mars Rover a Final Goodbye It was a cold night in Pasadena when NASA's rover Spirit landed on Mars. But if tension could generate heat, we would have been perspiring. On a good day, getting to Mars is a crapshoot. Over the years, only… Continue reading
May 20 U.S. Official Responds to ‘Double Standard’ Charges on Bahrain By Margaret Warner MANAMA, Bahrain | President Obama's speech Thursday night was intended to send a message to the Bahraini monarchy -- and its beleaguered opposition -- that U.S. interests in the Gulf will not trump its commitment to democratic change forever. Continue reading
Apr 25 Stanford Debates: Reinstate ROTC? Reserve Officer Training Corps cadets practice battlefield tactics in Princeton, N.J. (File photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images) You wouldn't necessarily know it walking around campus, but there's a major debate going on at Stanford University, and at a few… Continue reading
Apr 04 Miles O’Brien: Cracks in the System at Southwest If you have ever unwound and bent a paper clip to and fro until it snapped, you understand the concept behind metal fatigue. Railroad engineers in the late 19th century were the first to recognize the problem. As… Continue reading
Mar 29 Message Received? Obama Weaves Warning for Syria, Yemen, Bahrain Into Libya Speech Commentators and bloggers are buzzing today with critiques of President Obama's speech on Libya. He's taking hits for the questions he didn't answer -- What happens if Gaddafi stays in power? -- and for the broader issues he didn't… Continue reading