Racial segregation in the U.S. housing market has ebbed since its peak, around 1960. But it can be hard to find a truly integrated American neighborhood, according to demographer John Logan of Brown University, who has been has been parsing the latest census data. “Black-white segregation is a phenomenon that is dragging on and on,” Logan tells NPR’s Steve Inskeep.
Disgust is the Cinderella of emotions. While fear, sadness and anger, its nasty, flashy sisters, have drawn the rapt attention of psychologists poor disgust has been hidden away in a corner, left to muck around in the ashes.
No longer. Disgust is having its moment in the light as researchers find that it does more than cause that sick feeling in the stomach. It protects human beings from disease and parasites, and affects almost every aspect of human relations, from romance to politics.
Mounties are investigating three B.C. teenage boys who posed as underage girls online, lured men to meet them for sex then confronted the accused sexual predators dressed as superheroes.
By Steve Inskeep On a recent morning, John Pierce walked across the sprawling hospital campus of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. On the lawn, he spotted people who have come to define the place in recent years. “[They were] having physical fitness-type tests,” Pierce said. “There were people with notebooks and things, like they record when you do your sit-ups and pushups — but these were a number of double amputees.” Pierce is the historian for the Walter Reed Society, which makes him an expert on the historic American hospital in Washington, D.C. The last doctors and patients are leaving, as the center closes. They’re moving elsewhere as part of a round of base closures — a huge development for the U.S. military.
By Damien Cave
The hair and accents were wrong, but the audience cared about just one thing: the house band was singing the Beatles, here, in a new bar called the Yellow Submarine, in Cuba, where such an act might have led to arrests in the mid-1960s.
More women in the Army, like Specialist Shakira Lamb, a medic, are risking their lives on the front line.
When a new website appeared from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling called “Pottermore,” sporting nothing but some owls and a link to a countdown clock on YouTube that, as of right now, has a little less than six days to go until she makes an “announcement,” the speculation was rampant.
Of the 215 million child labourers worldwide, more than half are engaged in hazardous work.
The space shuttle Endeavour blasted off successfully on Monday morning on a mission to the International Space Station, after NASA expressed confidence that it had fixed an electrical problem that grounded the spacecraft two weeks ago.
