Enlarge image i Looking ahead to Tuesday and Wednesday: the darker the shading, the greater the risk of severe weather. National Weather Service Looking ahead to Tuesday and Wednesday: the darker the shading, the greater the risk of severe weather. National Weather Service Snow likely won’t be the big weather story for much of the […]
Enlarge image i Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo (in white shirt, at left) examines the muddy waters of the Ciliwung River in Jakarta. The city government is planning to dredge the river and relocate residents away from its banks to prevent chronic urban flooding. His talk of providing more services has won him widespread popular support.
Enlarge image i The ILVA steel plant in Taranto, Italy, provides some 20,000 badly needed jobs in a country with a weak economy. But it also spews carcinogens. A court has ordered a partial shutdown, which the government has rejected. Yara Nardi/Reuters /Landov The ILVA steel plant in Taranto, Italy, provides some 20,000 badly needed
Enlarge image i Kids build robots with Popsicle sticks at an Oakland meeting of Hacker Scouts, a group that encourages young people to create do-it-yourself crafts and electronics. Jon Kalish for NPR Kids build robots with Popsicle sticks at an Oakland meeting of Hacker Scouts, a group that encourages young people to create do-it-yourself crafts
Enlarge image i Police Lt. Ray Mesek registers a rifle at a gun buyback event on Saturday in Bridgeport, Conn. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Police Lt. Ray Mesek registers a rifle at a gun buyback event on Saturday in Bridgeport, Conn. Spencer Platt/Getty Images At about 8 a.m. on March 6, 1998, Matthew Beck arrived to
The fire was already burning in their Waldo Canyon neighborhood when Janet Wilson and her partner Stephen Gandy finished packing their cars and joined the evacuation. Stephen Gandy West of the city of Colorado Springs, trees charred by the summer’s wildfire scar the steep foothills. The Waldo Canyon fire destroyed more than 300 homes in
Enlarge image i Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president, speaks in response to the Connecticut school shootings, at a news conference in Washington on Friday. Evan Vucci/AP Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president, speaks in response to the Connecticut school shootings, at a news conference in Washington on Friday.
Sculptures entered in the Great Salt Lick Contest await the judging and auction. Taki Telonidis Whit Deschner stands in the middle of a pasture outside of Baker, Ore., probably 30 or 40 feet away from a black cow licking a white salt block. To most of us, this may look like a bucolic scene from
If there’s one common language that some recent immigrants in Dayton, Ohio, seem to share, it’s soccer. The first Dayton World Soccer Games kicked off earlier this year, an initiative hosted by the city to welcome an influx of immigrants. On the field, a rainbow of brightly colored jerseys represented nearly 20 of the different
Enlarge image i In a push to improve quality, Medicare will pay some hospitals more and others, including Boston’s Massachusetts General, less. Steven Senne/AP In a push to improve quality, Medicare will pay some hospitals more and others, including Boston’s Massachusetts General, less. Steven Senne/AP It’s no longer enough for hospitals to just send a
If you’re a student at the halfway point of the academic year, and you’ve just taken stock of your performance, perhaps you have reason to feel proud of yourself. But a recent study suggests some of the pride you feel at having done well — especially in science — may be unfounded. Or at least
Some insurance companies are taking a page out of their own history books: running their own doctors’ offices and clinics. Though the strategy previously had mixed results, insurers think that by providing primary care for patients, they might reduce costly diseases and hospital stays in the long run. Dr. Michael Byrne spent eight years working