Nadia Zonis appears in the following:
Could the economic crisis be good for us?
Monday, December 01, 2008
Our brains evolved to cope with scarcity. Abundance has made us fat, broke, and anxious. But UCLA neuroscientist Peter Whybrow says the downturn could tap into our primal brain chemis...
Obama & food crisis
Monday, November 10, 2008
"That took a third out of your grain supply of the food market and that was a big hit." — Paul Collier, Oxford University
Lieberman
Monday, November 10, 2008
"Most of the voters of Connecticut think Joe Lieberman is out for Joe Lieberman." — John Dankosky, WNPR Hartford
voter turnout
Monday, November 03, 2008
Record numbers of Americans voted early this year. Michael McDonald, a voting expert and professor at George Mason University, analyzes what we know about those early votes, and what they say about what will happen tomorrow.
Staph skin infections afflict pro football players
Friday, October 31, 2008
NFL players may seem invulnerable, but recently a spate of staph infections has hit teams around the country. The potentially dangerous infection spreads from close contact and skin a...
Florida
Friday, October 31, 2008
Hillsborough County, Florida, is one of the "Counties that Count" in the 2008 election. The city of Tampa has both white, devoutly Christian voters and low-income blacks, with a mixe...
christian science
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Christian Science Monitor has announced that it will stop publishing a daily print edition and move its focus to the web. Editor John Yemma will explain the venerable news organiz...
Pennsylvania
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Both presidential candidates believe Pennsylvania is a crucial — and winnable — prize. Today Barack Obama, John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning in the state.
Stevens Trial
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Republican Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska has been convicted of lying about gifts he received from an oil contractor. Despite the guilty verdict, the Republican isn't out of the race for the Senate seat he's held for 40 years.
Cloud computing
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
"Cloud computing" is just a buzzword, but major software players are betting on computing that happens over the Internet rather than on desktops. Yesterday Microsoft unveiled its bran...
Immigration raid
Monday, October 27, 2008
Hasidic Rabbi Aaron Rubashkin expanded his family's Brooklyn butcher shop into the largest kosher meat plant in the nation. The underside of his success was revealed this spring after...
Palin
Monday, October 27, 2008
In the final, intense sprint to the finish of the election, is there a Sarah Palin insurgency? Politico blogger Ben Smith sees increasing signs of tension in the McCain-Palin camp as ...
This American Life
Friday, October 24, 2008
This week, public radio's This American Life goes to the ultimate battleground state, Pennsylvania, to find out why Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and Republican candi...
Counties that Count
Friday, October 24, 2008
(Pictured: Collee McCinty, Linda Foster, Mary Vincent, Judy Hamblin, Peggy Rosch. All were at the Galleria in Henderson, NV, voting early this year.)
pentagon drops charges
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
The U.S. government has dismissed all charges against five prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay after the military prosecutor assigned to the cases resigned, saying the government had wit...
NY Ambulances on Their Way to Gulf Coast
Friday, August 29, 2008
New York, NY —
New York City paramedics are on the way to Louisiana to help out if Tropical Storm Gustav makes landfall there.
Warren Golden, Chief Operating Officer of Citywide Mobile Response, says his company sent five ambulances and 10 EMTs with all the equipment they might need.
GOLDEN: We're ...
