Supporters of Republican vice presidential pick Sarah Palin argue her experience tops that of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Here's a look at some major achievements in the lives of both:
The nation's first Muslim congressman said Tuesday that he erred in comparing the Bush administration's response to Sept. 11 to an event that led to Adolf Hitler's consolidation of power in Nazi Germany.
Recently, I quoted Harvard's Dr. Atul Gawande on the explosion in surgeries: "In 1996, Americans underwent some 60 million surgeries. In 2008, that number rose to 100 million. Does that mean that Americans are healthier?" he asked.
A comparison of a double-wall drinking glass to a standard beer glass. The temperature change of a glass of beer is compared between the two glasses over 75 minutes and plotted. A little stop-motion video of the data collection is also included. Read to find the results...
There was a minor drama around the BET Honors tribute to Mary J. Blige. Producers reportedly wanted Keyshia Cole to do one of Mary's songs but word is that Blige's husband and manager, Kendu Isaacs, squashed that idea.
Excerpt: In the last few years, psychologists and researchers have been digging up hard data on a question previously left to philosophers: What makes us happy? Researchers like the father-son team Ed Diener and Robert Biswas-Diener, Stanford psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky, and e …
Gadget expert Vincent Everts tells you in this quick BlackBerry Storm Video Review what is better for you - the iPhone or the Storm. See more irresistible headlines
The study's lab tests on 10 brands of bottled water detected 38 chemicals including bacteria, caffeine, the pain reliever acetaminophen, fertilizer, solvents, plastic-making chemicals and the radioactive element strontium ...
Following John's note on an OHP mail list email, I adapted the bill comparison tool I developed for GovTrack and used it to analyze the changes made between the draft PDFs that have been circulating of the economic bail-out bill that is now a large package of legislation.
Web users can browse salary sites to find general salaries for various positions. A new entrant, Glassdoor.com, allows anyone to find and anonymously share salary details about his or her job at a specific firm and location.
While Gov. Palin's assertion that the only difference between a hockey mom and a pitbull was "lipstick" drew a loud ovation from the Republican faithful in St.
"Just from what little I've seen of her and Mr. Obama, Sen. Obama, they're a member of an elitist-class individual that thinks that they're uppity," Westmoreland said.Asked to clarify that he used the word "uppity," Westmoreland said, "Uppity, yeah."
Many Americans know that there are characteristic policy differences between the two parties. But few are aware of two important facts about the post-World War II era, both of which are brilliantly delineated in a new book, "Unequal Democracy," by Larry M.
A new ad released on August 25th by the McCain campaign features a former Clinton delegate telling fellow Clinton supporters that she plans to vote for John McCain and suggests it's okay for them to do so too.
Updated Thursday, August 24, 2008 THE CANDU MEMORANDUM - PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES COMPARISON Questions for the Candidates that have never been asked and need to be answered
Side-by-side comparison of football's favorite magazine cover boys, Eli Manning and Tom Brady.
Is an iPhone 3G too costly for you? Do you just dislike the iPhone in general? Then take a look at these great alternatives.
Don't buy into the old argument that Mac laptops are categorically more expensive than Windows machines. Sometimes that's true—but they're often on par with, or cost less than, their closest Windows laptop equivalents.
"This comparison covers ready-to-drink chocolate milk, as there's really a dearth of competition in the powdered stir-in category. It's pretty much either Nesquik or Ovaltine there. All the brands tested, unless otherwise specified, are made with non- or low-fat milk.
As Mr Greenspan pointed out in his response Monday, the housing bubble was not unique to the US. On the contrary, as the background chapter on housing in the International Monetary Fund's latest World Economic Outlook shows, US experience was far from exceptional.
Many men are intimidated by ex-boyfriends because of a variety of reasons, especially the following:
Playing the part of Point in this exercise will be me. Playing the part of Counter-point will be my imaginary friend who we'll call Teve Tobs. Let's begin.
So how do Apple's HD movie downloads compare with DVDs, Blu-Ray Discs, and currently available HD video on demand content? We did a direct comparison to help you see the differences.
In this fourth installment of our MacBook Air review series, we pit Apple's standard hard disk drive (HDD) model against the standard solid state drive (SSD) configuration in a set of battery and benchmark tests to gauge the performance and power saving capabilities of each.
With the torch being recently passed by the Kennedy family to a new generation of politicians, it remains to be seen just exactly what impact all of this will actually have on how people vote in the twenty-four primaries and caucuses scheduled for Super Tuesday.
In what I call "The Ubuntu Experiment", I'm trying to find out whether Ubuntu really is as user-friendly as Ubuntu-enthusiasts always claim. I'll be testing this out by giving my mom Ubuntu and reporting on that in a series of blog posts...