by Kristian Weatherspoon | Oct 30, 2009 | Science + Technology
Get the Flash Player to see this content. A new study finds health benefits in pumpkin skin. (Kristian Weatherspoon/MNS) Did you know that the total U.S. pumpkin production in 2008 in major pumpkin producing states was valued at $141 million? -or- The largest pumpkin...
by Markham Heid | Oct 28, 2009 | Science + Technology
Washington — The message was clear: Don’t bite the hand that feeds your constituents. Members of Business Roundtable, a consortium of high-profile corporate heavy hitters, held a teleconference Wednesday to denounce the public option and excoriate Senate...
by Kristian Weatherspoon | Oct 27, 2009 | Science + Technology
Get the Flash Player to see this content. Democratic Del. Donna Christensen’s office works to level the health care playing field and include the U.S. territories in current health care proposals.(Kristian Weatherspoon/MNS) WASHINGTON – As sweeping health...
by Markham Heid | Oct 27, 2009 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — As President Barack Obama shoulders forward the Sisyphean boulder of health care reform, he trudges in the footsteps of his predecessors. No fewer than four U.S. presidents in the past century have tried and failed to enact universal health care...
by Kiran Sood | Oct 27, 2009 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON – NASA should abandon plans to return to the moon – and it should also halt efforts for human exploration of Mars, a special panel commissioned by the White House said on Thursday. That’s because the human space flight program is unsustainable without...
by Markham Heid | Oct 21, 2009 | Science + Technology
WASHINGTON –In an attempt to quell renewed public concern over the H1N1 flu virus, three of President Barack Obama’s top Cabinet officials assured members of Congress on Wednesday that the swine flu outbreak in the U.S. is still under control. The American...
