It’s been roughly four years since the economic recession first hit the United States, leaving a majority of the population with economic hardship and financial insecurity.  Unbeknownst to most, people of color as well as other racial minorities have been hit the hardest during this four year recession, creating depression-like circumstances for most Blacks, Latinos, [...]

In the year 2006, 3.3 million students, or one in fourteen, were suspended or expelled.  This is due to the Zero-Tolerance Policy that has been in effect since 1994. In recent years this policy has negatively effected many students in the school systems.  The Zero-Tolerance Policy was first implemented to expel any student for a [...]

Even though NATO denies using depleted uranium (DU) in Libya, it is suspected that bombs and missiles with contaminated warheads are being dropped into the country. Because its density, low cost, and destructiveness, DU has been a popular choice of ammunition for world militaries. Once weaponized, the uranium waste fragments and vaporizes into easily inhaled [...]

 Yu David Liu, a computer scientist from Binghamton University in Binghamton New York, has ideas for developing more energy-efficient software in today’s modern technology.  Liu received an award from the National Science Foundation’s Faculty Early Career Development Program, and a five year grant for nearly half a million dollars to further his investigation in energy [...]

Research scientists at The University of Edinburgh have used newly discovered information about parasite survival to better understand sleeping sickness. Sleeping sickness is a parasitic disease that is transmitted by the tsetse fly.  It is a dangerous disease that affects both humans and animals.  A parasite can develop into two physical forms and a study [...]

  While hosting the 2010 World Cup appeared to be a success for the South African nation, the ugly truth is starting to reveal itself.  A slew of economic and social issues are looming over the country and more trouble is brewing.  Rapidly worsening income inequality, economic calamities as debt payments come due, and a [...]

 In July of 2003, Microsoft released its first public beta of its Speech Server which allows computers to better handle human oral commands. This technology will be implemented not only into computers but also into phones, mp3 players, and cars. Oral commands are already used in many cellular devices, but with the updates Speech Server [...]

  In February of 2011 the Cambodian government recently granted access for the United Khmer Group to tear down part of a rainforest and turn it into a strip-mining site.  The company has been given approval from Prime Minister, Hun Sen, for up to 20,400 hectares of land to be mined for titanium.  This rainforest [...]

An ethnic Russian minority population in Latvia and Estonia (both of which joined the European Union along with Lithuania in 2004) has been continually reporting discrimination and denial of political and social rights, such as citizenship and employment by the Baltic Governments. Russian authorities have done little to promote the social wellbeing of their people [...]

Due to socio-economic unrest in Antananarivo, Madagascar, the number of child laborers has risen by 25 percent. According to various reports published by International organizations like the International Labour Office (ILO) and the United Nations children’s fund UNICEF, there are two million children under the age of 15 going to work everyday instead of attending [...]