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A government admission of wrongdoing

04/10/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Last week, National Intelligence Director Gen. James R. Clapper sent a brief letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in which he admitted that agents of the National Security Agency (NSA) have been reading…

Fort Hood: How does mental illness turn into violence?

04/04/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
U.S. soldier SPC Ivan Lopez is pictured in the Sinai Peninsula between 2007 and 2008 (REUTERS/Puerto Rico National Guard/Handout via Reuters) Thankfully, most psychiatric disorders never trigger violence, and the vast, vast majority of even the most severely psychotic people…

NSA spying: What if secrecy trumps the Constitution?

04/03/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
The United States Constitution. (ARCHIVES.GOV) What if the National Security Agency (NSA) knows it is violating the Constitution by spying on all Americans without showing a judge probable cause of wrongdoing or identifying the persons it wishes to spy upon,…

A female boss’s take on Sheryl Sandberg’s “Ban Bossy” campaign

03/14/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
So some popular girls got together and decided they are no longer going to use a particular word, and they decided we can’t use it either. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg teamed up with the Girl Scouts and other influential women…

Those bad old foods are good for you now

03/13/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
What’s old is new again may be the simplest way to avoid whiplash when deciding what’s good to eat. Some foods that doctors were telling us to avoid just a few years ago are now being heartily embraced. Food science…

What women can learn from St. Valentine

02/14/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
The origins of Valentine’s Day are not exactly clear, but one of the more loving tales involves a courageous Roman priest and devoted young lovers. The story goes that the Roman Emperor Claudius II had outlawed marriage between young couples.…

What search for “Adam’s genes” tells us about ourselves

01/31/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
This week, FoxNews.com’s Jeremy Kaplan reported, that “a pair of scientific studies using the latest genetic evidence are seeking to identify the very first man to walk the Earth, the so-called ‘Adam.'” The search for “Adam’s genes” tells a compelling…

GlassesOff app claims to eliminate need for reading glasses

01/23/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
The GlassesOff app cdan train your brain to improve your vision. (GlassesOff) The GlassesOff app cdan train your brain to improve your vision. (GlassesOff) PreviousNext Like death and taxes, reading glasses can seem almost inevitable — perhaps until now. A…

Last light: Final phaseout of incandescent bulbs coming Jan. 1

12/13/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
It’s lights out for the light bulb. On Jan. 1 it will become illegal to manufacture or import traditional 60-watt and 40-watt incandescent bulbs, thanks to a 2007 bill that set strict minimum efficiency standards – and effectively outlawed the…

The top ten reasons to "shop small" on Small Business Saturday

11/29/2013 Published on Foxnews.com
There hasn’t been a lot of good news in the small-business sector recently. The self-employed are getting hammered by insurance premium increases under the healthcare law, and they are trying to keep their doors open in a challenging economic environment.…