Playground fun is a must have experience of summer. However, your child’s fun may be secretly affected if he’s playing on arsenic-treated playground equipment. From the 1970’s until 2003, a lot of the wood for playground equipment, decks, picnic benches and more, was pressure-treated with a preservative containing toxic arsenic.
In late 2006, George W. Bush met with the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon and asked if military action against Iran's nuclear program was feasible. The unanimous answer was no. Air strikes could take out some of Iran's nuclear facilities, but there was no way to eliminate all of them. Some of the nuclear labs were located in heavily...
Strategic defaults on mortgages: The price we pay for the housing folly
The House has moved to crack down on the practice of defaulting on mortgages that people can actually afford, but it's action is unlikely to have much effect.
The collapse of the housing market has pushed more than 11 million homeowners into the uncomfortable position of...
The motive behind whistle-blower prosecutions
BY GLENN GREENWALD
(updated below)
One of the more flamboyant aspects of the Bradley Manning arrest was the claim that he had leaked to WikiLeaks 250,000 pages of "diplomatic cables." Those were the documents which anonymous government officials pointed to when telling The Daily Beast's Philip...
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea's health care system is in shambles with doctors sometimes performing amputations without anesthesia and working by candlelight in hospitals lacking essential medicine, heat and power, a human rights watchdog said Thursday.
North Korea's state health care system has been deteriorating for...
