Among the best ways to improve your life in 2007 is to take such natural wonders as glaciers–before they melt. So U.S. News asked leading glaciologist Mark Meier and other experts to list some of the most spectacular. We the matched them with outfitters offering trips to places like Alaska's Bering Glacier and Kenya's legendary Mount Kilimanjaro, which could be glacier free within a decade. The resulting to-do list ranges from basic hiking trips to a high-seas cruise aboard a floating Antarctic hotel.
Women treated for breast cancer may be able to lessen the odds of a recurrence by cutting fat from their diets, according to a new, large study. The findings come as good news to researchers, because a far larger study released earlier this year found such a slight difference in risk in women trimming the fat that it might have been due to chance alone.
AP - Inflation at the wholesale level surged by the largest amount in more than three decades in November, reflecting higher prices for gasoline and a host of other items.
AP - The United States and North Korea on Tuesday stepped up diplomacy at international arms talks, meeting one-on-one to address the communist nation's nuclear weapons program and alleged financial crimes that have been an obstacle to the disarmament negotiations.
AP - Vice President Dick Cheney will be called as a defense witness in the CIA leak case, an attorney for Cheney's former chief of staff told a federal judge Tuesday.
A young girl in Zimbabwe brings back food for the night for her family -- a handful of rats to help them get by for another day. "Look what we've been reduced to eating?" her mother says. It's not an uncommon sight in Zimbabwe, once considered southern Africa's bread basket and now on the sharp decline. Critics point to one man for the country's ails: President Robert Mugabe.
Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army has replaced al Qaeda in Iraq as "the most dangerous accelerant" of the sectarian violence, according to a Pentagon report. Attacks by insurgents and militias jumped 22 percent from mid-August to mid-November, and Iraqi civilians suffered most of the casualties, the report said.
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