Why have the Chinese invested so much effort and resources winning influence with various African governments?

It's a federal crime to administer any medical treatment without FDA approval; this effectively outlaws any medical experiments that are too far outside the mainstream.

When the space elevator is built, it won't be an American device.

Time magazine gets a clue on welfare, and advocates "creating livelihoods."

What if the stadium is empty? If there are too many empty seats on TV, I'll lose my head. What to do...?

Solzhenitsyn warned of "an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses."

Ingrid Betancourt has learned that there are some people you just don't negotiate with.

The fame of the TSA has become so great that Japanese shoppers twelve thousand miles away know just how they treat your luggage.

Maybe we can make a difference!

What the American revolutionaries did and what the founders of the State of Israel did meets the current definition of terrorism from the FBI web site, but that cannot be. That's why Scragged offers a subtle, but vital, change to the official definition.