Just what the Department of Defense, which now self-identifies as the Department of War , needs: more testosterone. The Pentagon is apparently going to try winning 21st-century wars with 1980s-era action heroes. Because surely if the U.S. isn't sufficiently winning in modern combat, it's ...
Many people across the nation were touched by the heartwarming story of Roman Butzlaff, a 4-year-old boy in Concord, North Carolina, who befriended several of his elderly neighbors and became their adopted grandson. When the CBS Evening News aired its July 10 "On the Road" feature on Roman, I ...
Many of today's consumer loans are legal but abusive. Payday lenders and used car sellers often steer customers into costly contracts they barely understand. Low-income borrowers with jobs, and therefore, dependable cash flow to siphon off, are favored targets. Sure, there's a sucker born ...
Last week I took a daylong field trip touring a giant data center near Dulles International Airport in Loudon County, Virginia. The facility is owned and operated by CloudHQ. A "cloud," by the way, is the hardware that stores trillions of data files, research, love letters, the entirety of ...
New York City has long been celebrated as a city of immigrant neighborhoods. Little Italy, Chinatown, Harlem, Washington Heights, Brighton Beach – these communities tell the story of generations of newcomers who helped build America's largest city while gradually becoming part of ...
The first thing Mariel Gardner mentioned was the sound. Cicadas and katydids buzzed while butterflies and bees drifted among bright yellow blooms in Louisville's Chickasaw Park. Gardner smiled. "This is what I wanted to hear," she said. A new aptly named Butterfly and Bee Pollinator Meadow honors Muhammad Ali, but Gardner hopes it also reminds Louisville of something else: what believing in yourself can grow. Everybody knows Muhammad Ali as the Champ, the GOAT. What they don't know is the Kentucky kid who believed in himself and understood his worth long before the world ...
