Enlarge image i State Police officers pass a makeshift memorial as they respond to a threatening phone call that caused the evacuation of St. Rose of Lima Roman Catholic Church in Newtown during Sunday services. Mario Tama/Getty Images State Police officers pass a makeshift memorial as they respond to a threatening phone call that caused […]
Enlarge image i In a photograph taken by Shannon Hicks, police and teachers lead children away from Sandy Hook Elementary. Hicks is a volunteer firefighter, in addition to being an associate editor at the local paper. Shannon Hicks/AP In a photograph taken by Shannon Hicks, police and teachers lead children away from Sandy Hook Elementary.
Schools around the country are reviewing security plans, adding extra law enforcement patrols and readying counselors for the first day of classes since a shooting massacre at an elementary school in Connecticut. Districts from Alabama to Arizona and Florida to New England were asking local law enforcement to increase patrols on Monday. School officials in
Mixed Drinks Huguette Roe Consider the lowly soda can. After the pop, the fizz, the guzzle, it’s dumped into a recycling bin and chucked curbside with the rest of the trash. But just as it has reached a sort of existential low point — empty, forgotten, discarded — voila! The can transforms into a thing
The tragedy in Newtown, Conn., will surely spur pollsters to ask Americans again about guns, gun ownership, gun laws and the Second Amendment. If recent experience is a good guide, public opinion may not shift too much. A gun shop in Glendale, Calif. Gabriel Bouys /AFP/Getty Images Pew Research Center writes that: The murders of
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton earlier this month in Dublin. Kevin Lamarque /AFP/Getty Images Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, who earlier this week canceled a trip to Morocco and the Middle East because she was ill with a stomach virus, is at home recovering from a concussion she suffered in a fall, her
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Sign of the times: Markdowns at a discount clothing store in New York City last month. Such stiff competition for consumers’ dollars is helping to keep inflation in check. Spencer Platt/Getty Images A sharp drop in the cost of a gallon of gasoline helped pull consumer prices down 0.3 percent in November, the Bureau of
Enlarge image i A supporter of the opposition to Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was playing soccer near a Republican Guard tank earlier today outside the presidential palace in Cairo. Egyptians are being called to vote over the next two weekends in a referendum on a draft constitution. Patrick Baz /AFP/Getty Images A supporter of the
Enlarge image i Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., have opposing views about a report detailing CIA detention and interrogation practices. Alex Wong/Getty Images Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., have opposing views about a report detailing CIA detention and interrogation practices. Alex Wong/Getty Images In a closed-door meeting
BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images If a kid does something bad and you want to discipline him — give him a time-out, say, or take away a toy — there are some basic principles that seem to work. The punishment needs to happen quickly after the bad behavior. And it needs to be significant enough to get
As any cheese maker will tell you, it’s not that hard to make cheese. You just take some fresh milk, warm it up a bit, and add something acidic to curdle it. Then, once it has cooled, you drain off the whey — the liquid part — and you’re left with cheese. But when did