When poor people are given medical insurance, they not only find regular doctors and see doctors more often but they also feel better, are less depressed and are better able to maintain financial stability, according to a new, large-scale study that provides the first rigorously controlled assessment of the impact of Medicaid.
Mexico's ruling party on Sunday chose a former congresswoman, 51 year-old Josefina Vazquez Mota, to run for president, the first time a major party has nominated a woman to compete for the nation's top office.
A smartphone app is now diagnosing cataracts and other eye-related problems for people in developing countries.
From raising chickens and growing tomatoes to washing cars and renting out party equipment, combatants emerging from the civil war in the Ivory Coast are finding jobs in hundreds of new enterprises and projects under a pilot United Nations initiative that aims to reintegrate ex-fighters into their former communities. The $4 million disarmament, demobilization and […]
A new car sharing/car rental program, called AltCar, has been launched in Baltimore, Maryland with a fleet of all-electric battery-powered cars.
"A black Labrador that bit a 13-year-old boy's foot repeatedly, waking him up, is being credited with saving the boy and two of his friends from a house fire."
Dark clouds of soot and gases spewed by tractors, bulldozers, and backhoes are becoming a thing of the past under new federal standards that have forced cleaner diesel engines this year.
Governor Ritter wants Colorado to be the example for the rest of the nation when it comes to green technology and energy efficiency giving thirty seven communities across the state a grant from the governors energy office to encourage the building of energy efficient homes.
Two hundred student leaders from 33 states and Canada converged on the West Lawn of the United States Capitol to put Congress in the ‘hot seat' on global warming through peaceful protest. The students, standing in rows with 200 red chairs, formed a mass of color on Thursday behind large banners reading "Congress, You Are […]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has successfully completed cleanup work at the Asbestos Dump Superfund site in Morris County, New Jersey, which is adjacent to a National Wildlife Refuge. To date, nearly 350 Superfund sites nationally have been cleaned up and deleted from the hazardous sites list.
The Episcopal Diocese of Maryland is offering forgiveness and a funeral service for a homeless man who killed himself after fatally shooting a priest and church secretary last week. Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton and an academic expert on forgiveness likened the diocese's attitude to that of the Amish community in Lancaster County, Pa., that forgave […]
We got a FedEx delivery this week containing an offer from our mortgage company (Chase) and we are taking advantage of it with the result that our interest rate and monthly payments will drop; our interest-only loan will now become a principle-paying 30-year fixed; and, the best part, there are absolutely NO charges involved. No closing costs or fees.