George Hadjipanayis' assistant came to him with perplexing news: Some incredibly strong magnetic field had caused their lab instruments to go haywire.
The University of Delaware's football team recently wrapped up its season with 103 players on its roster. That includes four quarterbacks, 10 running backs, 14 wide receivers, 16 defensive backs and four kickers. As a proud graduate of the school, this makes me immensely happy. It was, after all, Winston Churchill who once said, "Life without a 16th defensive back is no life at all."
Climate change is altering diets and lifestyles among Inuit people, according to a scientist who has studied the human face of global warming in the Arctic.
The 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded Wednesday to three professors for a tool to make carbon-carbon bonds in organic chemistry, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced.
A massive ice island four times the size of Manhattan that broke off the Petermann Glacier early last month has split in two.
CNN's Brian Todd tracks the glacier that broke off of Greenland.
A piece of ice four times the size of Manhattan island has broken away from an ice shelf in Greenland, according to scientists in the U.S.
Sometimes, when you happen to be an especially gigantic jerk, you do dumb things.
The photograph hangs in my basement, a black-and-white image so vibrantly vivid that, even all these years later, I can't help but stop, stare and wish for a modified DeLorean to take me back to March 11, 1992.
Ohio State University is No. 1 again, but not in football or basketball. For the second year in a row, the school's president was the highest paid public university executive in the United States, according to a study published Monday.
In a nondescript conference room tucked inside the library at the University of Delaware, a graduate student found a historian's equivalent to a needle in a haystack.
A woman claims her insurance company used her Facebook photos in its decision to cut off her disability payments.
As the economy melted down last year, so did CEO paychecks. The average compensation for 200 chief executives at America's largest public companies fell 5.1% last year to $10.8 million, according to a survey published Sunday by the New York Times and research firm Equilar. The decline marked the first time in five years that top executives' pay packages shrank compared to the year before.
When I was a senior in high school, I was torn between two colleges. I wanted to attend SUNY Albany. I wanted to attend the University of Delaware. I debated and debated and debated, and on the final day I opened my desk drawer intending to read over each school's brochure one last time.
President-elect Barack Obama had plenty to say about corporate excess on the campaign trail. One place his presidency should have a direct and early impact is on so-called "say on pay" legislation that would make annual shareholder votes on senior executive compensation part of securities law.
PEOPLE chats with the new VP contender about his triumphs, tragedies – and his lucky charm
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has selected James Bullard as its new president, the regional bank announced Tuesday
When Erika Clowes was pregnant, she figured breast-feeding would be a breeze. After all, she'd read all the books and taken all the classes. After an easy birth, she brought home her baby, Charlie, and waited for paradise to begin.
Running a university or college can make for 20-hour days and intense pressure to please a long list of factions from donors, board members and alumni to faculty, students and parents.
The pay packages of U.S. chief executives are outpacing investor returns, suggesting that their compensation is not based on performance, according to a report published Monday.
The latest clash between Hewlett-Packard's directors presents a close-up view of the usually closed-door affairs of its board, and observes think the picture isn't pretty.
Note to banks: Your flabby boards could use a makeover.
Under pressure from advocates of open government and a former CNN journalist, the Pentagon has released nearly 300 photos of U.S. troops killed in Iraq, Afghanistan and other conflicts.
When it comes to allegations of steroid use, Jason Giambi and Barry Bonds might be on the hot seat. But other major league stars are paying the price.
You're a fool and a chump. What other conclusion can we draw? You've bought shares in publicly traded companies, haven't you? Then as far as the rules and regulations are concerned, you're too dumb...
In February 2000, Guy W. Adams, a Los Angeles investor, bought 1,000 shares of Lone Star Steakhouse & Saloon for $9,200. Thanks to aggressive overexpansion, Lone Star's share price had dropped to a...
Congress passed an important bill in October regarding publicly subsidized housing for the poor. You'll remember this, of course, from the banner headlines, heated debates on radio call-in shows, a...
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Soon after this article is printed, it will take up residence in the Nexis database and, apparently, become the only verbiage in disk memory whose author is unenthusiastic about diversity in educat...
You display your prejudices in what you ignore as well as in what you do. Coming off that reasonable axiom, we are sitting here wondering whether anything but rampant prejudice against IQ tests cou...
When her husband died last summer, Joanne Venutolo, 44, was left with an acute personal loss as well as direct financial responsibility for three college- bound teenagers. Her daughter Tracy, 19, w...
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