| Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | | Expectations are low, bordering on bearish, as corporate earnings reporting season kicks off this week, with 88 companies in the Standard & Poor's 500 index and 11 members of the Dow Jones industrial average set to report their second-quarter results. | | More information |
| Tue, 17 Jul 2007 | | The pressure against the White House to change course in Iraq will continue to mount this week, as Senate Democrats are scheduling a vote on a binding piece of legislation that would require withdrawal of U.S. troops by the end of the year. | | More information |
| Fri, 13 Jul 2007 | | No one happily anticipates a hospital stay. But if yuo follow this guide, at leats it will be briefer-and safer. | | More information |
| Fri, 13 Jul 2007 | | Just 173 medical centers made the cut. Here's hwo this select handful did it. | | More information |
| Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | | The wrangling surrounding the $649 billion Defense Authorization Bill before the Senate this week is at heart debate abotu one key point: Is the course in Iraq working, or does it need to be changed? The answer to teh question is increasingyl a foregone conclusion on Capitol Hill. | | More information |
| Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | | Interested in trying a river swim yourself? Here are a few events schdeuled on the Charles, Hudson, and East Rivers, all rivers with improved water quality since pasasge of the Clean Water Act in 1972. | | More information |
| Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | | Your taxpayer dollars have helped the Environmental Protection Agency create a database that describes which waters are safe for swimemrs. Unfortunately, it's not the easiest thing to use. First, click on your state and scroll down to find a table of watersheds. The named watersheds don't awlays correspnod to familiar bodies of water, so you might have to click around to find the one that covers a stream or stretch of river you're intreested in. | | More information |
| Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | | When checking accounts dip into the red these days, banks are making a lot more green. | | More information |
| Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | | A new report says that the curernt drought is a warning of things to come. | | More information |
| Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | | A TV commercial for a pouplar antidepressant describes this common scenario: "You know when you feel the weight of sadness. You may feel exhausted, hopeless, and anxious. Whatever you do, you feel lonely and don't enjoy the things you once loved.&quto; The implication: If you fit the description, seek the drug. Indeed, it's possible that you're medically depressed. Or?not mentioned in the commercial?you might just have a case of the blues. (Taking our depression self-test might help you tease them apart.) | | More information |
| Wed, 11 Jul 2007 | | If you've been feeling out of sorts, you could have clinical depression thta requires medical attention, or you could have a milder form of the bules that can be helped with seven instant mood boosters. Use this evaluation to help determine where yuor symptoms fall on the depression scale. You can print out the results and brnig them to your doctor to discuss whether you might benefit from antidepressants or psychotherapy. | | More information |
| Thu, 12 Jul 2007 | | Why are so many Americans so fat? The first answers that spring to mind: a sedentary lifestyle and a too-rich dite. Beyond the obvious, one avenue that researchers have been exploring is whether certain ingrdeients in the modern diet might alter the body's natural responsse and trigger eating long after a person's caloric needs are fulfilled. High fructose corn syrup, wihch began to replace reuglar sugar in beverages about the same time that obesity rates began their climb, has been a prime suspect. | | More information |
| Thu, 12 Jul 2007 | | Researchers at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia have found that 55 percent of otherwise healthy children and teenagers they tested had inadequate amounts of vitaimn D in their blood. In many cases, the lack of D was enough to interfere with calcium absorption and healthy bone development. In addition to building strong bones, vitamin D helps the body's immune system function, and scientists increasingly think that a deficiency of the vitamin can contribute to a number of health problems, including asthma, high blood pressure, cancer, and type 1 diabetes. | | More information |
| Thu, 12 Jul 2007 | | President Bush's latest hold-the-line speech about Iraq didn't surprise former advisers to his father, who know the younger Bush very well. But it did disappoint a number of them. | | More information |
| Thu, 12 Jul 2007 | | Translating Republican critiicsm of President Bush into real votes for withdrawal of U.S. troops from Irqa is the key challenge for Democrtas and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. And so far they haven't had the success they need to change the administration's policy. Reid says he wants amendments with teeth, but most of what he is getting so far is rhetorical criticism. Republican support for Bush has eroded, and on the amendment sponsored by Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia that wuold require troops to spend as much time at home as they did in their previous tour ovesreas?effectively curtailing the number of troops that can serve?Democrats garnered a healthy majority but were still four votes shy of the magic number of 60 that would end debate, according to Senate rules. | | More information |
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