How to get the most value from your miles USA Today
Some frequent fliers will do anything to stretch their miles as far as they will go. If you want to get the highest value possible from your miles, you should know which awards give you the most (and least) bang for your mileage buck. Read on for tips.
A decidedly American sweep of the Nobel science prizes so far USA Today
Of the three Nobel Prizes announced this week, the five different researchers share one common trait: They're all American. Gunnar Oquist, the permanent secretary for the Royal Swedish Academy of Science, said Wednesday that Europe has simply fallen behind the U.S. when it comes to funding and ambition.
The Nobel Prizes: A family tradition USA Today
For some Nobel Prize laureates, winning the coveted awards is a family tradition. Six fathers-and-sons, four married couples and two brothers have won Nobels since the first awards were handed out in 1901. But no one beats the Curie family of France.
Pulling out the stops to keep shoppers BBC News
Business leaders and traders in Plymouth say more needs to be done to keep shoppers coming back to Plymouth, despite the new Drake Circus development.
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Cenk Uygur: The Worst Talking Point Ever: The Comma HuffingtonPost
Republicans have had some brilliant talking points in the past. "He voted for it, before he voted against it" might have won them an election. Even the maddeningly irrational "if we don't fight them over there, we'll have to fight them over here" has worked for a ridiculously long time with a ridiculously large percentage of Americans. But now they've run up against a wall. The comma? What the
The Foley Timeline US News & World Report
The saga of Rep. Mark Foley dates to at least five years ago. U.S. News has assembled a timeline about Foley, his personal involvement and electronic communications with current and former pages in the House of Representatives, and what other members of Congress knew about the situation:
Philip Slater: HOW BELIEFS ABOUT 'HUMAN NATURE' REINFORCE THE STATUS QUO HuffingtonPost
Human beings are enormously malleable and adaptable, and behavior that's taboo in one culture is valued in another. Still, many people persist in believing that some human traits are 'just human nature', while others are not. And, of course, there's very little agreement about which is which. The Judeo-Christian tradition, which tends to take the Adam and Eve myth as something close to fact,
Bernanke: Retiring Baby Boomers Will Strain the Economy Fox News
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned on Wednesday that retiring baby boomers will place major weight on the U.S. economy and budget.
John Zogby: The Reuters/Zogby Poll of 15 Congressional Districts HuffingtonPost
Our new polling for Reuters is just out and it shows Democrats ahead in eleven of the fifteen districts we polled currently held by Republicans. The Democratic edge includes leads in three open seats where well-known Republicans are on the way out -Illinois 6 - Henry Hyde, Colorado 7 - Bob Beauprez, and Ohio 18 - Bob Ney. Meanwhile, eight Republican incumbents are trailing behind Democratic

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