Climate change is already being blamed for altered rainfall patterns and shrinking glaciers that provide water for drinking and agriculture. Part 1 of an occasional series.
Officials at three universities profited from the sale of shares held in a student loan company that each of the universities recommends to student borrowers.
It's never too late–well, almost never–to apply for college scholarships. Here are some scholarships with late deadlines suitable for last-minute applicants. If you're hoping to scrape together a couple of extra bucks before you head off to school, look no further.
Some charities and religious and ethnic organizations offer low- or no-interest education loans. Students can still apply for several of these interest-free loans for the upcoming school year.
Women in their 70s who get plenty of exercise have a better chance of avoiding the pain and stiffness of arthritis than their sedentary peers, reports a study published in the current Arthritis Research & Therapy. "Just 75 minutes per week of moderate physical activity offers protection," says Kristiann Heesch, the researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia who led the study. To get the greatest benefit, she found, older women would need to spend 200 to 340 minutes a week walking briskly, 150 to 300 minutes exercising moderately (playing tennis or golf, for example), or 80 to 160 minutes engaged in such vigorous exercise as running or biking.
AP - Fifteen British sailors and marines held captive for nearly two weeks left Iran early Thursday aboard a commercial flight bound for London, ending a standoff a day after Iran's president announced their surprise release.
AP - A week after acknowledging a litany of errors in the friendly fire death of former NFL star Pat Tillman, the Army said Wednesday two soldiers who died in Iraq in February may also have been killed by their own comrades.
AP - President Bush said Wednesday he knows the nation is weary of war and wondering if the U.S. can win. Still, he said efforts to pull troops home from Iraq only make the U.S. more vulnerable to attack from an enemy that is "pure evil."
Iran Radio is reporting that 15 British military personnel detained in Iran for nearly two weeks have been freed and are flying home to London. Hours earlier, the UK sailors and marines shook hands and made small talk with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in front of TV cameras, thanking him after he announced their release.
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