ALAN ALDA WANTS SCIENTISTS TO CUT OUT THE JARGON
By FRANK ELTMAN In this Friday, April 26, 2013 photo, actor Alan Alda listens during an interview at Stony Brook University, on New York’s Long Island. The film and television…
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30 YEARS AFTER REPORT, SCHOOLS REMAIN AT RISK
By PHILIP ELLIOTT FILE – In this March 12, 1984, file photo, President Ronald Reagan gets some instructions on computer operations while visiting the Congress Heights Elementary School in Washington.…
RUSSIAN BECOMES WORLD’S OLDEST SPACEWALKER AT 59
By MARCIA DUNN In this image made from video provided by NASA, Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogradov, left, and Roman Romanenko perform a spacewalk outside the International Space Station to gather…
RESCUERS SEARCH RUINS OF TEXAS FERTILIZER PLANT
By JOHN L. MONE and MICHAEL BRICK A fire still burns in a apartment complex destroyed near a fertilizer plant that exploded earlier in West, Texas, in this photo made…
GORBACHEV SEES GLOBAL FAILURE TO ADDRESS ECO-RISKS
By JOHN HEILPRIN FILE – In this March 30, 2013 file picture former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev speaks during his open lecture ”Does a man change history, or history change…
TEXAS RETHINKING ITS TESTING, CURRICULUM STANDARDS
By WILL WEISSERT Socar Chatmon-Thomas, center, stands with her daughters Isabella, left, and Guinevere, right, outside their school in Austin, Texas on Monday, April 8, 2013. Texas has been a…
REPORT: GLOBAL WARMING DIDN’T CA– USE BIG US DROUGHT
By SETH BORENSTEIN FILE – In this Aug. 16, 2012 file photo, drought-damaged corn is seen in a field near Nickerson, Neb. A new federal science report looking at last…
FACEBOOK’S ZUCKERBERG LAUNCHES POLITICAL GROUP
By BARBARA ORTUTAY FILE- In this Thursday, March 20, 2013 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at Facebook headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif. Teaming up with other Silicon Valley…