Values/ethics

Holiday Shopping Trends Reflect Income Inequality


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In North Korea, young Kim Jong Eun will test age-old reliance on maturity

At 28 or 29, Kim Jong Eun, the new leader of North Korea, will be the youngest person ever to have authority over a nuclear arsenal.  read more »

U.S. Government Wins Access to Twitter Accounts of WikiLeaks Supporters

A federal judge today granted the U.S. government access to the Twitter accounts of three of WikiLeaks’s strongest supporters.  read more »

Wisconsin Union-Busting Drive Feeds Off Towns That Are Shrinking

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

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 »

Is Harry Potter Partly to Blame for India's Pet Owl Crisis?

India is currently weathering an endangered owl crisis, and Harry Potter may be partly to blame.  read more »

Michelle Obama shakes it up in India with dance moves, big push for girls' education

NEW DELHI - When President Obama and his wife, Michelle, get into an argument, she makes her husband apologize first, the first lady told a group of low-income Indian schoolgirls, causing them to chee  read more »

Steven Hayes Sentenced to Death for the Deadly Conn. Home Invasion

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 »

GOP: There'll be no compromise on tax cuts

WASHINGTON — Republicans leader in both the House and the Senate said Sunday there would be no compromise with Democrats on whether to extend Bush-era tax cuts for the nation's wealthiest taxpayers.  read more »

Nuclear bomb material found for sale on Georgia black market

Exclusive: Georgia trial reveals how sting netted highly enriched uranium that had been smuggled via train inside lead-lined cigarette box.  read more »

Mexico's president opposes marijuana legalization

Prop. 19, the California measure to legalize pot, would undercut Mexico's fight against drug cartels, President Felipe Calderon says. He calls on the Obama administration to oppose the measure.  read more »

Awarding Liu Xiaobo Nobel peace prize may harm China-Norway relations, says FM spokesman

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 »

India students suspended for rude Facebook messages

A leading school in India has suspended 16 students for posting rude remarks about a woman teacher on the popular social networking site, Facebook.  read more »

Afghanistan's Election: A Look at the Diversity of Headlines

Afghans have voted in a key parliamentary election. There are a number of articles from various sources around the globe. Here is a list of some of the headlines and what agency they come from:  read more »

Student caught in middle: Dream of college awakes to the reality graduates face when here illegally

To advocates on both sides of the immigration debate, Miriam Torres is emblematic of the problems facing this country.  read more »

Viewpoint: Religious freedom is not tolerance

Here's an essay question, students: Religious freedom and religious tolerance are not the same thing, or are they? Discuss.  read more »

Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isle

A lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret.

Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice.  read more »

Netherlands releases Yemen flight suspects

Neither of the two men, reportedly US residents, was on any watch lists.  read more »

Method to Grade Teachers Provokes Battles

How good is one teacher compared with another?  read more »

Facebook Working Hard To Avoid Google's Fate

Brick-and-motor biggie Target will start selling Facebook Credits gift cards in-stores nationwide September 5, the retail chain announced today.  read more »

All about me? College kids lack empathy : Compared to 30 years ago, it's all about me now, study finds

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 »

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