Tracy Drumm, a 27-year-old marketing director from Chicago has been getting Botox shots in her brow since she was 19. Whatever.
When the Taliban ran Afghanistan, they destroyed idols, refused to educate women, and even forbade kite-flying. These photographs, from James Reeve's project 'Banned,' document the freedoms available to Afghans after the Taliban's fall.
A new Pentagon report identifies rich reserves of iron, copper, cobalt, lithium and gold. But experts say extracting the minerals from the country's rugged mountains and remote regions won't be easy.
Police officers in Chechnya have been firing paintballs at Chechen women with uncovered hair; the policemen drive by in cars with tinted windows and shoot the women in the face and neck as they're as they're walking down the street.
History suggests that such a device would save thousands of lives. In 2008 alone, nearly 12,000 people died in alcohol-impaired car crashes. Many of those deaths would likely be preventable if there were a way for a vehicle system to seamlessly detect elevated alcohol levels in drivers.
Women like their cars small, inexpensive, foreign and hot. No, not hot in the muscular looks, twin-turbo powerplant, and growling exhaust note sense. Actually hot. They like to crank the heater up. That's the conclusion of a pair of new surveys on women and cars.
Two British white supremacists have been jailed after being convicted of posting violent and vicious racist messages on the internet.
Poorly-trained overseas doctors who cannot speak good English must not be able to treat patients in the UK, a doctors' leader has said.
It's an appealing notion that our daily pick-me-up may also confer a range of health benefits. And for coffee drinkers there's a lot of research percolating.
Lizzie Velasquez weighs just four stone and has almost zero per cent body fat but she is not anorexic. Miss Velasquez has a rare condition which prevents her from gaining weight even though she eats up to 60 small meals a day.
Days before dying in federal prison, Adam Montoya pleaded with guards to be taken to a doctor, pressing a panic button in his cell over and over to summon help that never came. An autopsy concluded that the 36-year-old inmate suffered from cancer, hepatitis and HIV. The cancer ultimately caused his spleen to burst. Montoya bled to death internally.
Pictures from the G20 Protests in Toronto....things got a little out of control
As you read this post, I am currently secluded in the tony vacation getaway known as southeastern Michigan. While I'm out, I've directed Robo-James to serve up a series of daily posts asking you whom you'd nominate for this year's Emmys—whose nominees are announced next week—and sharing some of my own picks. For my personal [...]
Russia's top energy official said he expected BP's chief executive Tony Hayward to resign soon and that Russian officials would be told the name of his successor at a meeting in Moscow later on Monday.
Pools have come a long ways in design but this is nuts
The Vatican prosecutor of clerical sex abuse warned perpetrators that they would suffer damnation in hell that would be worse than the death penalty.
This is Robo-James. While Flesh-James is absent, I invite you to use this open thread to discuss and analyze the previous night's transmissions on the television-receptor device. Though I assume that the logic of your analyses will inevitably be corrupted by human emotion and subjectivity. I shall distract myself by singing quietly to myself in [...]
Sen. Robert Byrd, the longest-serving member of Congress, died overnight after being hospitalized, a spokesman for the West Virginia lawmaker said early Monday."I am saddened that the family of U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., tearfully announces the passing of the longest serving member of Congress in U.S. history. He was 92," spokesman Mark
Starting in mid-2011 the FTC announced consumers shopping for light bulbs will notice new labeling on packaging designed to help them choose among the different types of bulbs on the market. Don't be caught like a deer in headlights. Learn the difference now.