Though the percentage of Latinos in the U.S. military remains lower than the percentage in the general population, gains are being made in efforts to increase diversity in the military, a recent study shows.
Studies show that at least 1 in 5 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer post-traumatic stress or other mental health problems -- but they're too afraid to ask for help
When she heard that a unit of the U.S. Navy planned to award contracts worth $5.4 million for disposing of hazardous waste in her area, Elizabeth Novak was ready to bid.
Women's business groups will be rallying at a U.S. Senate hearing today to fight a proposal by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) that would limit federal contract set-asides to four, fairly obscure industrial sectors.
To security experts, the immense cargo ships that ferry more than 11 million containers into this country annually are potential Trojan horses -- each one could easily harbor a WMD, such as a dirty bomb.
Though the percentage of Latinos in the U.S. military remains lower than the percentage in the general population, gains are being made in efforts to increase diversity in the military, a recent study shows.
Studies show that at least 1 in 5 troops in Iraq and Afghanistan suffer post-traumatic stress or other mental health problems -- but they're too afraid to ask for help
When she heard that a unit of the U.S. Navy planned to award contracts worth $5.4 million for disposing of hazardous waste in her area, Elizabeth Novak was ready to bid.
Women's business groups will be rallying at a U.S. Senate hearing today to fight a proposal by the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) that would limit federal contract set-asides to four, fairly obscure industrial sectors.
To security experts, the immense cargo ships that ferry more than 11 million containers into this country annually are potential Trojan horses -- each one could easily harbor a WMD, such as a dirty bomb.
The United States could get a quarter of its energy from renewable sources by the year 2025 at little or no additional cost if oil prices stay high and the cost of renewable energy keeps falling, a study by Rand Corp. said Monday.
George W. Bush seldom suffered personally from doing what's unpopular politically. In fact, you could argue that he has made a career of it, holding fast to positions that many voters reject, as a sign of strength in these dangerous times. So his willingness to exercise his first-ever veto this week on a bill that would expand federal funding for human embryonic-stem-cell research, which 2 out of 3 voters favor, is not just a way to stroke his political base. "People like leadership much better than a finger in the wind," says White House press secretary Tony Snow. As Bush explained to him while in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the G-8 summit last week, "I took a position. I believe in it. So that's what I'm going to do."
New England is still wringing out after the area's worst flooding in 70 years. But don't breathe easy just yet. It's not only flooded riverbanks you have to worry about. Another devastating hurricane season is predicted this year.
It's easy to imagine that doctors don't get sick -- but of course, they do. And they suffer the same pitfalls as the rest of us when we enter the health-care system.
Federal authorities on Tuesday boosted to $50,000 a reward for information about 550 pounds of explosives missing from a business near Albuquerque, New Mexico.
My girlfriend is researching graduate schools, and they range from our fine state university at $6,000 a year to a New England near-Ivy League school at $40,000. Can the $40,000-a-year school really provide an education that will offer job opportunities lucrative enough to offset its higher cost? Or should she just go with the $6,000-a-year school?
Victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, including individuals killed or seriously injured and individuals and businesses impacted by the strikes, have received at least $38.1 billion in compensation, a study said Tuesday, with New York businesses receiving 62 percent of the total.
A veiled shadow in a doorway of Beslan School Number One; delicate, slumped bodies in Moscow theater seats; the soft, youthful face in a suicide bomber's farewell video -- These images are gripping and contradictory.
The U.S. Coast Guard will not be prepared to handle its traditional mission plus the responsibilities that have arisen after the attacks of September 11, 2001, if it follows its current modernization plan, according to a new study.
A new federal program to protect privately owned power plants, factories and other "critical infrastructure" from terrorists is getting little response from businesses.
As investigators searched Wednesday for a missing man booked on Air France Flight 68, non-U.S. flights entering the United States continued to be scrutinized for possible security concerns.
That nerve-racking sound emanating from the U.S. homebuilding industry earlier this year wasn't the busy clatter of hammering and the whine of circular saws--it was the figurative sound of an econo...
THE SCREWS keep tightening on medical insurance, both private and government- run, and you are beginning to wonder whether this trend will be hazardous to your health. So far it isn't, judging by s...
Violence in the nation's public schools is rising, classrooms are overcrowded, and teacher salaries are under siege. Teachers' union officials say that such poor working conditions and low pay make...
When 54-year-old Marina Saenz of New York City was left comatose after routine gall bladder surgery eight years ago, her son filed a malpractice suit. And when he collected $3 million in an out-of-...
It's terrific that the 20th century is ending as it began, with democratic capitalism ascendant. Prospects for a less bloody, more prosperous world have rarely been brighter. But it's also worth re...
The rhetoric of some Hispanic leaders might make you think that the government must treat low-income Latinos as though they are somehow different from earlier waves of immigrants, that without such...
CONSIDER what doctors, to say nothing of patients, don't know about the value of just one procedure. Each year about 80,000 Americans get a carotid endarterectomy, a kind of Roto-Rooter job on clog...
Chrysler announced that it had begun equipping six car models with driver-side air bags as standard equipment, becoming the first U.S. carmaker to do so. Air bags are already standard in BMW, Merce...
CONSIDER HOW AMERICA might look in the year 2000 unless it admits more immigrants: The labor force is aging and shrinking -- a legacy of the baby- boom generation, whose panda-like reproductive pat...
To fight AIDS and control its financial burden we should do the following: Health care. Shift much of the treatment of AIDS patients out of expensive hospitals and into more cost-effective programs...
BEFORE THE LINE began to roll last winter at General Motors' new truck plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, each assembly line worker received 400 to 500 hours of paid training. Electricians and other ski...
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