The firebombings of the car and home of two University of California at Santa Cruz researchers earlier in August reveal an unwelcome reality: Animal- rights extremism is getting worse.
Muslims keep trying to fit in to America, but too often they face people who push them away.
Hun Chea, a nephew of Cambodia's prime minster, was speeding along a busy downtown street a few days ago when he ran down a man on a motorbike.
Anyone who thinks the media have been balanced and unbiased during the current election simply hasn't been paying attention.
Hillary Clinton says the media pushed her out of the race. Barack Obama says the media are picking on his wife. John McCain says the media are treating him like yesterday's losing lottery ticket.
Working with young people, whether for a few minutes or over a course of years, you never know what influence you might have on them.
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, the longtime military dictator who resigned Monday, was an ambivalent ally in the fight against radical Islamists.
"Our home looks like a dormitory now, because so many relatives have arrived," said Azerbaijani Parvana Mamedova, 23, as she helped take care of a stream of refugees from Georgia's Marneuli region. "We don't have enough space in our three rooms, but it's our duty to receive them." Since the fighting began on Aug. 8, thousands of Azeris who live in Georgia have fled to their homeland seeking safety with relatives.
This August will be remembered as a defining moment in America's history with AIDS - a time when we simultaneously realized our potential to affect the global epidemic and learned of our dramatic failure to control it at home.
I refuse to join the boycott of "Tropic Thunder." When I saw the e-mails from fellow disability rights activists to denounce the movie because of the repeated use of the R-word - "retard" - I groaned. Don't they know what the word "satire" means?