Human Behavior
Holiday Shopping Trends Reflect Income Inequality
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 12/23/2011 - 16:16.Wisconsin Union-Busting Drive Feeds Off Towns That Are Shrinking
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 13:16.The loss of power and people in rural and small town Wisconsin is helping fuel a showdown over government union rights and benefits. read more »
Pro-Government Source Says Brega “Cleared of “Armed Gangs
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 03/13/2011 - 12:56.Libyan state television Sunday reported a regime army source claiming that the Libyan armed forces have cleared “armed gangs” from the key oil town of Brega in the east of the capital, Tripoli. read more »
Oak Park student circulates list degrading female students (on Facebook)
Submitted by newscaster on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 23:02.Girls, parents band together to press for strong disciplinary action read more »
Feds charge Jared Lee Loughner with Saturday's mass shooting
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 01/09/2011 - 17:53.PHOENIX (KGUN9-TV) - Federal prosecutors have finally filed charges against the man arrested for Saturday's mass shooting in Tucson. A press release issued Sunday afternoon said that the U.S. read more »
Steven Hayes Sentenced to Death for the Deadly Conn. Home Invasion
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 11/08/2010 - 13:14.Steven Hayes was sentenced to death by a Connecticut jury today (11.8.2010) for his role in the deadly 2007 home invasion that killed Jennifer Hawke-Petit and her two daughters. read more »
Nuclear bomb material found for sale on Georgia black market
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 11/07/2010 - 20:01.Exclusive: Georgia trial reveals how sting netted highly enriched uranium that had been smuggled via train inside lead-lined cigarette box. read more »
The Iraq Archive: The Strands of a War
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 17:38.A huge trove of secret field reports from the battlegrounds of Iraq sheds new light on the war, including such fraught subjects as civilian deaths, detainee abuse and the involvement of Iran. read more »
Awarding Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize may harm China-Norway relations, says FM spokesman
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:41.Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to China's Liu Xiaobo desecrated the prize and could harm China-Norway ties, said Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu on Friday. read more »
Massive fish kill reported in Louisiana
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 09/16/2010 - 12:05.Recent Photo
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Netherlands releases Yemen flight suspects
Submitted by Newsbyte on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 13:59.Neither of the two men, reportedly US residents, was on any watch lists. read more »
All about me? College kids lack empathy : Compared to 30 years ago, it's all about me now, study finds
Submitted by newscaster on Sat, 05/29/2010 - 22:37.College students today are less likely to "get" the emotions of others than their counterparts 20 and 30 years ago, a new review study suggests. read more »
Vendors Who Alerted Police Called Heroes
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sun, 05/02/2010 - 19:54.Even in Times Square, where little seems unusual, the Nissan Pathfinder parked just off Broadway on the south side of 45th Street — engine running, hazard lights flashing, driver nowhere to be found read more »
The model and the blood diamond
Submitted by newscaster on Mon, 04/26/2010 - 11:26.THE curious tale of the diamond that arrived in the night has returned to haunt supermodel Naomi Campbell, who is entangled in a web of allegations against Charles Taylor, the former Liberian presiden read more »
Report Says Many Youths Are ‘Too Fat to Fight’
Submitted by newscaster on Mon, 04/26/2010 - 11:08.A panel of retired military leaders has joined the fight against childhood obesity, saying that unhealthy school lunches are making America's youth unfit for military service and therefore pose a thre read more »
Teen Sues Mom for Hacking Facebook Account
Submitted by Mrs C on Thu, 04/08/2010 - 07:51.An Arkansas boy is suing his mom because she allegedly hacked into his Facebook account and posted slanderous remarks. read more »
Junk food addiction may be clue to obesity: study
Submitted by newscaster on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 19:31.Bingeing on high-calorie foods may be as addictive as cocaine or nicotine, and could cause compulsive eating and obesity, according to a study published on Sunday. read more »
Young job-seekers hiding their Facebook pages
Submitted by Newsbyte on Mon, 03/29/2010 - 11:25.(CNN) -- Justin Gawel says there's nothing too incriminating on his Facebook page.
"There's nothing naked or anything -- at least I don't think so," he said jokingly. read more »
Enormous Icebergs Could Affect Ocean Currents
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 12:09.A mammoth iceberg that struck a glacier off Antarctica, dislodged a newer chunk of ice that could affect ocean currents and also lower the levels of oxygen in the world’s oceans, according to Austra read more »
Cars pollute even when engines are switched off
Submitted by Newsbyte on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 11:57.LEAVING the car at home and catching a train to work may not be as good for the environment as you think. read more »
Eight Health Leaders Respond to Obama's Healthcare Summit
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 09:51.As he launched his healthcare summit Wednesday, President Obama said he hoped his televised effort to garner consensus for reform "isn't political theater, where we're just playing to the cameras and read more »
China Lodges Protest of Dalai Lama's White House Meeting With US Ambassador
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 12:33.Officials in Beijing have summoned the U.S. ambassador to China to protest President Barack Obama's meeting Thursday with the Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibet. read more »
Pennsylvania School Accused of Cyberspying on Students
Submitted by Newsbyte on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 12:22.Pennsylvania School Accused of Cyberspying on Students read more »
New Study Supports Abstinence-focused Sexual Education
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 22:51.A new study shows that abstinence-focused sexual education programs encourage a significant number of people to delay sexual activity, perhaps preventing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted read more »
Mussolini iPhone application is withdrawn
Submitted by Newsbyte on Thu, 02/04/2010 - 22:39.An iPhone application that allows users to download speeches by the former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been withdrawn.
Its developer says he is removing it after legal threats. read more »
