by Jenny Stamos | Dec 28, 2007 | News
Surprise! Cholesterol isn't all bad. Your body uses it to make hormones, vitamin D, and substances that aid digestion. But that doesn't mean you should make a run for the bacon. That's because your body makes all the cholesterol it needs on its own,...
by Susan J. Douglas | Dec 28, 2007 | News
My daughter is a freshman in college and is learning a lot, including how to manage her money. Recently she got a powerful initiation into the predatory practices of banks—a lesson more and more of us are learning each month. She miscalculated and thought she...
by Stanton Peele | Jan 9, 2008 | News
In his 1996 autobiography Dreams from My Father, presidential candidate Barack Obama admitted using alcohol and drugs in high school. Obama was unusually frank compared with Bill Clinton and George W. Bush—to name just two politicians reputed to have used drugs....
by Stephanie Kraft | Jan 10, 2008 | News
This week Imperium Watch juxtaposes two news items that connect a few dots on the global warming front. Here's the first, from Agence France-Presse:"The 'shocking' record loss of Arctic sea ice was Canada's top weather event in 2007, Canada's...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 10, 2008 | News
Talk about raining on a parade: instead of celebrating the fact that the city managed to end the last fiscal year with a $30 million budget surplus—following a $17 million surplus the year before—Springfield officials are instead scrambling to figure out...
