Living in the modern world can be downright depressing. Wars, crime, poverty, and recession stare out at you from the front page of the newspaper every single day.

Are you kidding me with that statistic?  I was born in California, raised in

I have to admit that while I've heard  and read about issues with cafeteria food in schools being unhealthy, I really don't know ]anything about it first han.  My kids are 4 and 2 so they're not eating in a cafeteria at this point.  With the rise of obesisty in the US, it's not surprising that everything kids eat is being analyzed.  A couple weeks ago my 2 year old was put on a high calorie

Careful students of history may be surprised that a US naval vessel recently became the first foreign military ship to stop in the port of Nha Trang, Vietnam. Not only did the US not win the Vietnam War, but the thaw in relations between the US and Vietnam has not been sufficient to justify joint military exercises.

The first zero waste, zero carbon emission city is to be constructed in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Masdar City, a $22 billion complex designed by Sir Norman Foster + Partners, will be kicked off with the completion of a mixed-use positive energy headquarters building, the first of its kind in the world.

The nonprofit world has been abuzz lately with talk of the sheer number of nonprofit organizations. How many should we have? How many is too many? How do we get rid of some of them?

Working with the Volunteer Chore Program has proved to be very rewarding, not only for myself as the Program Director, but also for the 100+ volunteers that put in their time and talents each year to help seniors and adults with disabilities who are low-income in our community.

    You may already have your opinions on private and public schools and it probably depends on where you went and how it worked out for you.

I vividly remember my younger brother's first month because it coincided with my family's move to a new state. I was 4.5 years old at the time, and my mother left him with my aunt and my 9 month-old cousin and took me to a public sprinkler pad as a special treat for being a big sister.

Our names, something most of us were given and birth had no control over for the most part, mean a lot. A name can present a person to the outside world through a variety of overt and not-so-subtle ways. As an individual, it represents who you are and what you've achieved. For many people (myself included), a name becomes an inextricable part of his or her identity.

With today's unpredictable climate, producing an ample food supply for the world's population has become increasingly challenging, especially in developing countries. Much of the farmland in these areas have been made available by clearing rainforests, which only compounds the problem of global warming. Even after the land has been cleared, there's no guarantee that the field will produce a bountiful harvest. Often, a flood, drought, or other natural disaster will prevail, leaving farmers with little or no reward for all their hard work. If the crops do come through, they must be shipped hundreds or thousands of miles to the highest bidding consumers all around the world, and all too often, thrown in the trash where they end up in a landfill. We know our population is growing and demand for food is growing. We know weather conditions will only get worse. How will we adapt as a species to the new habitat that we've created for ourselves? What is the solution?