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Slate's Explainer: Why Is There So Much Salt in Processed Foods?
May 18, 2013 4:00 am
The Institute of Medicine concluded this week that there is no reason for people to keep their sodium consumption below 1,500 milligrams per day, as had been previously recommended for most adults. The panel's approved level of 2,300 milligrams per....MORE
Text of senators' letters to the IRS
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
Text of two letters sent to IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman in 2012 and signed by U. S. Sens. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., Michael Bennet, D-Colo., Al Franken, D-Minn., Charles Schumer, D-N. Y., Jeanne Shaheen, D-N. H., Tom Udall, D-N. M., and Sheldon....MORE
Health reforms penalize some Indians
May 17, 2013 4:00 am
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — When Liz DeRouen needs any kind of health care services, from diabetes counseling to a dental cleaning, she checks into a government-funded clinic in Northern California's wine country that covers all her medical needs. Her ....MORE
Internet revives a mysterious poisoning case in China
May 16, 2013 4:00 am
BEIJING — She was a promising student at Beijing's prestigious Tsinghua University, a talented musician who loved to swim and dreamed of studying German and computer science. But in her sophomore year, Zhu Ling began suffering acute stomach....MORE
Cars made in Brazil are deadly
May 15, 2013 4:00 am
SAO PAULO (AP) — The cars roll endlessly off the local assembly lines of the industry's biggest automakers, more than 10,000 a day, into the eager hands of Brazil's new middle class. The shiny new Fords, Fiats, and Chevrolets tell the tale of....MORE
Leaving Bangladesh? Not an easy choice for brands
May 14, 2013 4:00 am
NEW YORK (AP) — Bangladesh offers the global garment industry something unique: Millions of workers who quickly churn out huge amounts of well-made underwear, jeans and T-shirts for the lowest wages in the world. But since a building collapse....MORE
New life as a found boy
May 13, 2013 4:00 am
ST. GEORGE, Utah - Zach Bowers' cultural education included a battle of wills over a simple task: how to mop the kitchen floor. Just when the teenager thought he was done with the weekly chore, Debbie Hofhines would loom like a drill sergeant,....MORE
The Last Buffalo Hunt/
May 12, 2013 4:00 am
In 1957, a curator at the Smithsonian was dismantling the museum's exhibit of six taxidermy buffalo when he found a mysterious metal box buried in the fake prairie ground. Inside was a handwritten note, dated March 7, 1888. The letter was written by....MORE
King, Messiah: New baby names suggest high hopes
May 11, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — Talk about high expectations for a newborn: King and Messiah are among the fastest-rising baby names for American boys. They're just a little behind Major, the boy's name that jumped the most spots on the Social Security....MORE
Ghost Army of inflatable decoys helped WWII effort
May 10, 2013 4:00 am
PHILADELPHIA — Bernie Mason spent World War II moving Army tanks, sometimes picking them up and setting them down with his bare hands. He's not superhuman. And the tanks weren't some ultralight secret weapon. It was combat trickery. As a 21-year-....MORE
A day in the strawberry fields seems like forever
May 9, 2013 4:00 am
SANTA MARIA, Calif. — About 30 minutes into my job as a picker, the strawberry fairy left her first gift. On one of the beds of berries that seemed to stretch forever into the Santa Maria marine layer, Elvia Lopez had lain a little bundle of....MORE
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Desperate migrants meet with misery in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula
May 8, 2013 4:00 am
RAFAH, Egypt — He counted his scars at the desert's edge. Scabbed electrical burns, purple splotches etched by chains, a map of blisters raised by candle wax dripped across his back. His captors threatened to bury his body beneath the sand and....MORE
Baltimore case depicts corrupt jail culture ruled by drugs, money, sex
May 7, 2013 4:00 am
Inside a gray brick fortress, past a barbed-wire fence, two women in prison guard uniforms traded words about their pregnancies."Did he tell you we was having a son?" Tiffany Linder asked, according to court documents recounting the conversation.....MORE
Flubbing a baseline test on purpose is often futile
May 6, 2013 4:00 am
In 2011, quarterback Peyton Manning suggested he purposely flubbed a preseason neurocognitive baseline test to make the results of any postconcussion test look better, which might have improved his chances of returning to play sooner. The attempted....MORE
Anecdotal evidence provides clues to youth concussions
May 6, 2013 4:00 am
Youth sports concussion clinics operate at the center of America's heightened awareness and increasing worry about concussions among young athletes. Listening to the hundreds of stories of how concussions have occurred, examining patients and....MORE
National Mall needs a face-lift, and the private sector chips in
May 6, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON _ The nation's front lawn needs sprucing up. The National Mall, the monument-filled, museum-lined, two-mile centerpiece of the capital, envisioned as a Paris-like boulevard, is showing wear and tear. Twenty-five million visitors a year take ....MORE
Part 2 of the drug war fugitive story: "Watch your back"
May 5, 2013 4:00 am
Mexico intensified its search for informant Luis Octavio Lopez Vega in 1999. The Foreign Ministry requested Washington’s assistance to determine whether he lived in the United States, a senior American federal law enforcement official said.....MORE
China Cyberspies Outwit U.S. Stealing Vital Military Secrets
May 5, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Among defense contractors, QinetiQ North America is known for spy-world connections and an eye- popping product line. Its contributions to national security include secret satellites, drones, and software used by U. S. special....MORE
Globe-trotting Cuban activists sway world opinion
May 4, 2013 4:00 am
MIAMI - At least half a dozen Cuban activists are now crisscrossing the globe, more or less at the same time, publicly airing their grievances against the Cuban government and meeting with high-level officials and politicians abroad. What gives? Many ....MORE
Feds seek control of Mongols Motorcycle Club’s symbol as legal weapon
May 3, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors just lost a quarter of a million dollars trying to take away the Mongols Motorcycle Club trademark. Now they’re trying again. Revving up an unusual free speech case, prosecutors in Southern California....MORE
Hacker's Conviction Fuels Claims of Government Overreach
May 2, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON - Their guns drawn, a dozen federal agents, police and forensics experts kicked in the door of a run-down two-story home in Arkansas shortly after dawn, barged inside and ordered the occupants to put their hands on their heads. ....MORE
Loans borrowed against pensions are squeezing retirees
May 1, 2013 4:00 am
To retirees, the offers can sound like the answer to every money worry: convert tomorrow's pension checks into today's hard cash. But these offers, known as pension advances, are having devastating financial consequences for a growing number of older ....MORE
Increasingly, cameras follow you everywhere
April 30, 2013 4:00 am
HACKENSACK, N. J. — They are watching as you work out at the gym, wait for a train, drive a car or walk down the street. Video surveillance cameras, both private and public, are just about everywhere — observing people as they go about....MORE
Navajo the chosen one for new 'Star Wars' dub
April 29, 2013 4:00 am
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — In the new translation of "Star Wars," Darth Vader is Luke's bizhe'e. The classic 1977 film that launched a science fiction empire and revealed the force within a farm boy who battles evil has been dubbed in Japanese,....MORE
Hitler's food taster tells of poisoning fears
April 28, 2013 4:00 am
BERLIN (AP) — They were feasts of sublime asparagus — laced with fear. And for more than half a century, Margot Woelk kept her secret hidden from the world, even from her husband. Then, a few months after her 95th birthday, she revealed....MORE
A Most Dangerous Spy
April 27, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — Ana Montes has been locked up for a decade with some of the most frightening women in America. Once a highly decorated U. S. intelligence analyst with a two-bedroom co-op in Washington, Montes today lives in a two-bunk cell in the....MORE
In Mali, scribe keeps an ancient calling alive
April 26, 2013 4:00 am
BAMAKO, Mali — Homemade twig pens stand like off-duty soldiers in a jar on Boubacar Sadeck's worktable. The morning sun steals into a room stuffed with a jumble of papers, ink bottles and stretched animal hides. He sits thoughtfully before a....MORE
Some course adjustments? Virtually guaranteed
April 25, 2013 4:00 am
LOS ANGELES — The public health class got ready for its first lecture: Attending were the pharmacist from Pakistan, the psychologist from Brazil, the dietitian from Louisiana, the journalist from Los Angeles — and 4,500 other people. It's ....MORE
Nevada farmer turns casino leftovers into feast
April 24, 2013 4:00 am
NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — With a satisfied grin, farmer Bob Combs watches the big truck slowly dump its greasy load, a Niagara Falls of yesterday's kitchen leftovers that sends off a sickening spray as it splashes into a metal bin. The greenish-....MORE
Economic Indicators: What if They're Wrong?
April 23, 2013 4:00 am
When President Barack Obama unveiled his $3.77 trillion budget, a key selling point relied on a somewhat arcane economic indicator: the ratio of federal debt to GDP (the goods and services the nation produces). How much debt can the nation manage?....MORE
'Grandmother of Afghanistan' says it may be time to move on
April 22, 2013 4:00 am
KABUL, Afghanistan _ After more than half a century of helping Afghans preserve their history and culture and improve their lives, Nancy Hatch Dupree's extraordinary run in Afghanistan might be ending. Dupree came to Afghanistan in 1962 with her....MORE
America turns left on social issues, but not on government
April 21, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON _ Some saw Barack Obama as a modern-day Franklin Roosevelt, ushering in a 21st century version of New Deal liberalism. Others saw a John F. Kennedy, heralding the dawn of a new progressive age of expanding rights. America in the age of....MORE
Zurich Mayor Renounces U.S. Citizenship Amid Tighter Tax Rules
April 20, 2013 4:00 am
GENEVA — The mayor of Zurich gave up U. S. citizenship, one of a growing number of Americans to do so after Switzerland agreed to implement tighter asset-disclosure rules. Corine Mauch, 52, a member of the Socialist Party born in Iowa City, Iowa,....MORE
Nevada buses hundreds of mentally ill patients to cities around country
April 19, 2013 4:00 am
SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ Over the past five years, Nevada's primary state psychiatric hospital has put hundreds of mentally ill patients on Greyhound buses and sent them to cities and towns across America. Since July 2008, Rawson-Neal Psychiatric....MORE
A fight in Colorado over uranium mines
April 18, 2013 4:00 am
SLICK ROCK, Colo. – The Dolores River bends through southwestern Colorado like a gooseneck, shaded by red rock canyons that leave those who pass through here breathless. Hidden from the riverbanks, behind cottonwoods and mule deer tracks, are....MORE
Focus on Standardized Testing Leads to 'Opt-Out' Movement
April 17, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON — A decade into the school accountability movement, pockets of resistance to standardized testing are sprouting up around the country, with parents and students opting out of the high-stakes tests used to evaluate schools and....MORE
Untold in stock market tale: the struggle of small players
April 16, 2013 4:00 am
It’s tough to make sense of the economy these days. The latest jobs numbers show hiring is down. Taxes are up, austerity reigns in Washington and consumers are skittish. Yet the stock market is defying gravity, marching ever higher in spite of....MORE
Analysis: Obama's budget plan limits his bargaining power
April 15, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's budget overtures to Republicans may limit his bargaining power if the GOP ever returns to the negotiating table on a grand deficit-reduction deal. In essence, Obama's spending blueprint is a final....MORE
Obama’s budget revives benefits as divisive issue, for 2014 ... and 2016
April 15, 2013 4:00 am
WASHINGTON – Whether or not Republicans ever agree to a budget deal with President Barack Obama, one thing seems certain: Now that he has officially put Social Security and Medicare benefits on the negotiating table, opponents on his....MORE
Part 2: Toradol and other prescription drugs in the NFL
April 14, 2013 4:00 am
In a sport with short career spans and few guaranteed contracts, playing through pain is an understood job requirement. In The Washington Post’s survey of former players, nearly nine in 10 reported playing games while hurt. Fifty-six percent....MORE
As employers push efficiency, the daily grind wears down workers
April 14, 2013 4:00 am
WESTFIELD, Mass. _ The envelope factory where Lisa Weber works is hot and noisy. A fan she brought from home helps her keep cool as she maneuvers around whirring equipment to make her quota: 750 envelopes an hour, up from 500 a few years ago. There's ....MORE
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