Manufacturers of everything from running shoes to deodorants design products specifically for women. One of the latest entries to the market: an artificial knee created for?and heavily advertised to? females. Without a track record, though, doctors say it's too soon to tell whether the Gender Knee truly represents a giant leap for womankind or whether it merely gives its manufacturer, Zimmer Holdings Inc., a leg up in marketing.
Pollster Scott Rasmussen weights his results by party identification, but also readjusts party identification monthly so he won't miss underlying changes in the political balance. Party identification tends to change slowly, and he measures it using tenths of a percentage. My recollection is that party identification remained fairly steady in the 1995-2005 period; Rasmussen's numbers suggest it has changed more since mid-2005. Let's look at it quarter by quarter, rounding off to full percentages:
A couple of journalists are making the case for the U.S. News rankings, explaining why the actions of a group of college presidents who have signed the letter boycotting the U.S. News peer survey may not be in the best interests of prospective students and their parents.
AP - Kidnapped British reporter Alan Johnston has been released after nearly four months in captivity, Hamas said Wednesday. Looking pale and frail, the BBC correspondent told The Associated Press he was "OK."
AP - They had diverse backgrounds, coming from countries around the globe, but all shared youth and worked in medicine. They also had a common goal, authorities suspect: to bring havoc and death to the heart of Britain.
AP - President Bush on Tuesday refused to rule out an eventual pardon for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, leaving open the chance he may wipe away the former White House aide's criminal record after already erasing his prison sentence.
The men allegedly behind last week's failed terror plots in England and Scotland have connections to al Qaeda in Iraq, U.S. officials said Tuesday. Counterterrorism officials told CNN they believe the UK plots may be a blueprint of attacks planned for the United States.
A two-person Apache helicopter crew staged a dramatic rescue Monday, ferrying two of their comrades out of a combat zone south of Baghdad, military officials said Tuesday.