What If Alex Rodriguez’s Testosterone and HGH Use Was Medically Justified?
What gets lost in all the talk about Alex Rodriguez, performance enhancing drugs, and shady Florida clinics is this: Manipulating hormones is part of the future of medicine.This is not to say that...
View ArticleSparks Fly as Tesla Museum Receives $1 Million Donation From Elon Musk
Yesterday marked what would have been inventor Nikola Tesla’s 158th birthday. He received quite the posthumous gift. Live Science reports $1 million funding from entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk,...
View ArticleGovernment Shutdown Causes DC Baby Boom—and a Sex Joke from Brian Williams
For 16 days last October, hundreds of thousands of U.S. government workers were off the job, and apparently some of them were making babies. The 2013 government shutdown—nine months ago this...
View ArticleGaza Toll Nears 100, Israel to Counter Rockets 'With All Power'
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel said on Friday it would not bow to international pressure to end air strikes in Gaza that officials there said had killed almost 100 Palestinians, despite an offer by...
View ArticlePutin meets Fidel Castro at start of Latin American tour
HAVANA (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin met former Cuban leader Fidel Castro and current President Raul Castro on Friday to begin a six-day tour of Latin America in which Russia is seeking...
View ArticleCrying Japanese Politician Resigns
Japanese politician Ryutaro Nonomura, who became an internet sensation last week when a video of his hysterical bawling at a press conference went viral on YouTube, has resigned, The Yomiuri Shimbun...
View ArticleAfghanistan's U.S. Military Interpreters at Risk From State Department Visa...
The United States government will shortly run out of special visas earmarked for thousands of Afghan interpreters who worked with the U.S. military. The Washington Postreports that State Department...
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Outgunned in the Search for Stolen Art
June 2014, and a three-day conference is taking place in the basement room of New York University’s School of Law. The 200 or so attendees that have hurried their way across sunny Washington Square...
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The Five Most Wanted Pieces of Stolen Art
1 Johannes Vermeer, The ConcertStolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner museum in Boston in 1990 in a nighttime heist, in which a security guard made the most expensive mistake in the history of art:...
View ArticleGaza Death Toll Hits 121, Israel Fortifies Iron Dome System
GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel rushed an eighth missile interceptor battery into service on Saturday to counter stronger-than-expected rocket fire from Gaza as the military pounded positions in the...
View ArticleFollowing Deadly Missile Strike, Ukrainian Forces Bombard Rebel Positions
KIEV (Reuters) - Ukrainian war planes bombarded separatists along a broad front on Saturday, inflicting huge losses, Kiev said, after President Petro Poroshenko said "scores and hundreds" would be made...
View ArticleGOP Split on Boehner's Lawsuit Against President Obama
With 12 days left in the legislative period, House Speaker John Boehner (R) has concluded that Congress’ time will be best spent pursuing a lawsuit against the Obama administration for a waiver it...
View ArticleIraqi Security Forces Executed at Least 255 Prisoners, Human Rights Watch Says
LONDON (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces and government affiliated militias appear to have unlawfully executed at least 255 prisoners over the past month in apparent revenge for killings by Islamic...
View ArticleAlan Furst on 'Midnight in Europe,' and Why His Women Like Laughter and Sex
More from Sean Elder’s interview with Alan Furst, author Midnight in Europe, the latest in his bestselling Night Soldiers series.[Related: Alan Furst, the Anti-Fascist Novelist]Are your books getting...
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For Syrian Women, the Battle Never Ends
(Editor’s note: names and locations have been changed to protect the identity of some of the women.)Nada was the most defiant woman I had ever met. Not yet 30, and the mother of two small sons under...
View ArticleStem Cell Teeth Grow at a Science Soiree
From growing teeth to creating push-button technology for dogs, this year’s U.K. Royal Society Summer Science jamboree had it all, following a tradition that dates back more than two centuries.Each...
View ArticleComplete Recount in Afghanistan Presidential Election
KABUL (Reuters) - The two rival candidates in Afghanistan's presidential election agreed to abide by the results of a U.N.-supervised recount of the entire poll to settle their dispute over the...
View ArticleItaly Prepares to Refloat the Costa Concordia
GIGLIO ISLAND Italy (Reuters) - Italian authorities gave the green light to refloating the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship on Saturday, setting the stage for the next step in the largest maritime...
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War and Peace in the Age of the Smartphone
2014 is witnessing a proliferation of violence, or at least its threat. That’s clear from the dissolving borders of Syria and Iraq to the ongoing genocide in the Central African Republic, and from East...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Qatar Deserves to Host the World Cup
This has already been an incredible World Cup. We have seen wonderful individual performances, great games, major upsets—and both jubilation and disappointments for supporters. But whether it is...
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