Recently I read about President Obama's thoughts and reactions as a result of having an absentee father. Having walked in his shoes, I could relate to his basic reactions.

On June 2, the Ford Foundation released the results of a lengthy study on the effects of Agent Orange/Dioxin, and confirmed what Vietnam veterans have known for years: This stuff will kill you, or worse, pass to your children and grandchildren and cause a

Persons of my generation have lived long enough to behold a plethora of changes occurring in their lifetimes. As a chemist, I am struck by the tremendous developments in the elements, those building blocks of the universe from which everything -- and I me

It was an oversized manila envelope, shoved in the mailbox, crowding my Macy's statement that provided a bit of a thrill at the end of my day. Tugging to free it from captivity, I was dying with curiosity to know what might be inside. Briefcase in on

This past March, Fresno Chaffee Zoo said goodbye to zoo director Lewis Greene and his wife, Patty Peters, director of marketing and development. They have moved back to Columbus, Ohio, where they are now working at the Columbus zoo.

If you, a person with purple skin, and I, a person with green skin, walk into a kitchen together and see a grease fire flaming in a pan on the stove, we might agree on how to handle it. But we might not.

It happens with an almost uncanny regularity: Milk prices go up and milk prices go down, like a yo-yo on a long string. When they go up, farmers do what they do best: add more cows, create more milk and make significant profits.

As we all know, the current health care system in America is in crisis. Taxpayers who pay for their own health costs and then foot the bill for broken government programs are fed up.

"Rumors of my demise have been greatly exaggerated."

Is it at all possible that we, as a culture, will begin to admire our mentor age group? I hope so, because I think I have just become a part of that group, and I would like some admiration.

For the eleventh day, residents of rural Selma sustained vicious, unprovoked rocket attacks.