I’ve asked myself many times over the last decade how is it that Americans could be so cavalier in protecting the gift we’ve been born with, the foundation of the greatest country that has yet exis...
World’s ending-again!
Last week my students told me about the Mayan prophecy that predicts that the world will end in 2012.
From Jacksonville to Fairbanks - Part 2
(Author’s note: in the previous chapter, I wrote that we flew over the eastern end of Lake Erie as we approached Detroit. In fact, it was the western end of Lake Erie.)
Last Wednesday I had the opportunity to travel to Odum to visit Poppell Farms Pumpkin Patch with Pre-K students from Altamaha Elementary and Fourth District Elementary. Jacob, my four-year-old son,...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Moderate Senate Democrats threatened Sunday to scuttle health-care legislation if their demands aren't met, while more liberal members warned their party leaders not to bend....
HEGANG, China (AP) -- When gas levels suddenly spiked deep in the Xinxing coal mine, Wang Jiguo grabbed two co-workers and they ran for their lives. Minutes later, there was a huge bang, a torrent of hot air and the earth shuddered....
NEW YORK (AP) -- The five men facing trial in the Sept. 11 attacks will plead not guilty so that they can air their criticisms of U.S. foreign policy, the lawyer for one of the defendants said Sunday....
MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (AP) -- The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission says the small amount of radiation detected at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant is not significant....