by Alan Bisbort | Jan 1, 2009 | News
On a slow news week such as the one between Christmas and New Year's, it is altogether fitting and proper that America's pundits would pad out their copy with trivia, even as the nation is gripped by an economic crisis.Take this breaking news story, written by...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 1, 2009 | News
A word of warning to Cinderella: should you ever encounter Susan Linn in a dark alley, you’d be wise to turn and run the other way.It’s not that Linn has anything against story book heroines per se. Indeed, Linn, a child psychologist and Harvard professor,...
by Maureen Turner | Jan 1, 2009 | News
"The journey back to our building has begun!" Liz Stevens said after last week's meeting of the Springfield Library Foundation.Stevens, chair of the Mason Square Library Advisory Committee, was celebrating the Foundation's move to begin the...
by Tom Vannah | Jan 1, 2009 | News
I'm not a big numbers guy. I liked math OK when I was in school, but it never became an overriding passion. I find some statistics interesting and helpful—things like batting averages—because they can give a general statement (Red Sox slugger Dustin...
by Stephanie Kraft | Jan 8, 2009 | News
Some 40 million people have been plunged into chronic hunger this year because of the global food crisis, taking the estimated number of the hungry to more than 960 million, the head of the UN food agency said last month.A billion people hungry, even more living...
