What you see first is what you eat first, a new study suggests. Cornell University researchers found that we are three times more likely to eat the first food item we see in our kitchen cupboards or refrigerators than the fifth one. The research shows that is “we end up being masters of our own [...]
WASHINGTON — Top-level college executives are enjoying rising pay packages, often exceeding $1 million annually, even as students are facing ever-higher tuition rates and universities are being forced to cut programs and low-level staff, according to anew report. Researchers with the Boston-based public-interest group Tellus Institute reviewed the most recent tax filings of the 20 most [...]
A seed settles into the soil and waits. Once it germinates, it moves stone and earth to tunnel the shoot that will become its roots. The seed projects a second shoot skyward, which after breaking ground, will allow it to convert sunlight into the energy it will use to sustain itself for the rest of [...]
BEIJING (AP) — China’s state broadcaster isn’t saying why the station ran the music to “America the Beautiful” during the gala live broadcast of the country’s latest space launch. Strains of the famed American patriotic tune rang out following the launch of the Tiang Gong-1 experimental space station module late Thursday night. It wasn’t clear why the music had been [...]
WICHITA, Kan. — A federal judge refused Thursday to block a new Kansas law restricting insurance coverage for abortions, saying opponents failed to prove their claim that legislators’ real intent was to create obstacles for women seeking abortions. The law prohibits insurance companies from offering abortion coverage as part of general health plans, except when [...]
WASHINGTON — Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning, a Republican candidate looking to challenge Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) in 2012, has hired the man behind one of history’s most infamous attack ads to oversee his campaign’s media strategy. Bruning has replaced Dresner Wickers and Associates, a San Francisco firm, with the D.C.-based McCarthy-Hennings Media, as the [...]
If you start the day feeling positive but feel yourself growing increasingly glum as it slugs along, you’re not alone. A new study using Twitter to track daily, global mood swings found that people tend to have two peaks, happiness-wise: early in the morning and then again around midnight. Sociologists at Cornell University tracked more than half a [...]
WASHINGTON — Clean energy advocates have long looked to solar power as a way to break the country’s dependence on foreign oil. However, the cost of obtaining the energy has so far outweighed the economic and environmental benefits. That may now be changing. During the first six months of 2011, the installed cost– combined hardware [...]
(Reuters) – An analyst said on Thursday that BlackBerry maker Research In Motion may have halted production of its PlayBook tablet computer and canceled additional tablet projects. “We believe RIM has stopped production of its PlayBook and is actively considering exiting the tablet market,” Collins Stewart semiconductor analyst John Vihn wrote in a note. He [...]
Rick Perry’s wife, Anita, has come to her husband’s defense. In an interview with The Des Moines Registeron Thursday, Texas’ first lady vowed that Perry will improve from last week’s debate showing in Orlando, Florida. “He’s never had a debate class or a debate coach in his life. … He’s going to be better prepared next time,” [...]
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