A huge mural greets visitors to the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center in Boston.
Artist uses optical tricks to create ‘moving’ murals
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Will a Mark-to-Market Fix Help Save the Banks?
To fix the banks, Washington needs to get toxic assets off their balance sheets. That’s easily said but not so easily done. One reason is an obscure accounting rule that is the subject of intense lobbying by representatives of the banking industry ahead of congressional hearings on Thursday on the matter
A Former Nun’s Memoirs Rock India’s Catholic Church
After 26 years as a nun, Jesme Raphael gave up her robes and walked out of the Congregation of the Mother of Carmel, the Catholic order in Kerala, India, that had been her home for three decades.
Drug cloud surrounds baseball’s hero
By his statistics alone, Barry Bonds would be considered one of the greatest players to ever walk onto a baseball field. In addition to a string of playing awards, Bonds holds the most sacred record in all of American sport: the all-time homerun record
Obama unveils budget blueprint
President Obama on Thursday unveiled a $3 trillion-plus budget that he says will halve the federal deficit by the end of his first term.
Obama submits budget blueprint
President Obama on Thursday presented a budget that he said is an "honest accounting of where we are and where we intend to go." Congress received a 140-page summary of the budget for fiscal year 2010 Thursday morning. The full details are expected in April. The government’s fiscal year runs from October of one year to September of the next
Teen vanishes on way to school
Last Friday the 13th was supposed to be a special day for 14-year-old Amber Leeanne DuBois.
Mine blast traps 96 in China: state media
A mine blast in northern China trapped nearly 100 miners on Sunday, state-run media reported. LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) — One major contender’s chances at Oscar gold may be damaged due to its sensitive subject matter
Could ‘Reader’ controversy hurt Oscar chances?
One major contender’s chances at Oscar gold may be damaged due to its sensitive subject matter.
California: One Vote Short of Averting Catastrophe
It’s becoming a cliché: California lawmakers again fail to reach agreement on a budget. As California engages in a budget battle that has left the government of the world’s eighth largest economy slipping toward insolvency, Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic legislative majority continue to search for one last Republican vote to pass a budget