For the second time in three harrowing days, a hydrogen explosion at one of Japan’s crippled reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant blew the roof off a containment building — this time on Monday morning at reactor unit No.
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Mitch Daniels: The Rare Politician Telling It like It Is
A long time ago—I think it was at an annual meeting of the Christian Coalition in the mid-1990s—the Republican stalwart William Bennett introduced a parade of his party’s candidates for President by warning the audience to be wary of pandering politicians. “And if a candidate tells you only things you want to hear,” he said, “if he asks nothing of you, then give him nothing in return, certainly not your vote, because he is not telling you the truth.” The Bennett Test is my bright line for presidential cattle shows .
Recipe for Food Safety
On Sept. 16, 2010, a team of U.S
Should the Drinking Age Be Lowered?
Every year around this time, millions of American kids graduate from high school, throw massive parties and get drunk. Police end up arresting a lot of these kids, causing them legal trouble for months or even years
Bone Marrow Transplants: When Race Is an Issue
It started out as an average April day, but as Dermot Tatlow drove home, he received a call that would lead to a global campaign to save his son’s life.
Eulogy: GENERAL NGUYEN NGOC LOAN
I won a Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for a photograph of one man shooting another. Two people died in that photograph: the recipient of the bullet and GENERAL NGUYEN NGOC LOAN
African Migrants, Turned Away by Italy, Abused in Gaddafi’s Libya
The young Eritrean woman was exhausted, famished and dehydrated after spending four days in March lost in the Mediterranean Sea. She had been on a fishing boat with nearly 300 African migrants, crammed so tightly that she couldn’t move
How To Fix 911
The phone rang at 4:43 a.m. on March 27, 2007
Nuclear Physics: Father of Fission
NUCLEAR PHYSICS The nuclear age dawned in the wrong place, at the wrong time.
South Korea’s Pet Clone Wars
When Lee Byeon Chun looks back four years to when he helped clone the world’s first dog, he confesses it was a stressful time.