Sitara Nieves appears in the following:
DNA testing: The California spit wars
Monday, June 23, 2008
The California Public Health Department has halted the work of 13 genetic testing companies, barring them from selling tests without a doctor’s orders. Today the companies must detai...
The end of food
Thursday, June 12, 2008
The signs are all around us: salmonella outbreaks; riots over food shortages; fears over mad cow disease; water shortages; skyrocketing global food prices. These are portents for the ...
The economy of energy
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Saudi Arabia wants to call a meeting between oil-producing and oil-consuming countries to discuss record high prices. President Bush has called for the United States to be less depend...
November strategy: Obama and McCain head West
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
This week, presidential candidates John McCain and Barack Obama travel to Nevada, Colorado and New Mexico. Though the three states account for 19 of the 270 electoral votes needed to ...
High prices, low margins hurt gas station owners
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Chicago residents are now paying the highest gas prices in the country - an average of $4.07 per gallon. You might think that gas stations are thriving with high gas prices, but gas station owners are actually losing money.
Young West Virginian voters mobilize
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
For the first time in almost 50 years, West Virginia matters. The polls already foretell West Virginia primary’s likely outcome — a victory for Hillary Clinton — but the Democratic n...
China's earthquake, tectonics and the shape of things to come
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
The earthquake that struck China’s central region yesterday is the deadliest the country has seen since 1976. We talk with Roger Bilham, professor of geological sciences at the Unive...
Missouri aims to place additional demands on voter ID
Monday, May 12, 2008
The fight over voter identification requirements has heated up after the Supreme Court upheld Indiana's voter ID law. Nineteen states are considering new voter ID measures, but we foc...
The Sunday pundit mash-up
Monday, May 12, 2008
The theme of Sunday's talk shows: Hillary is toast. But then again, anything could happen...
The new Russia... might look a lot like the old Russia
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Vladmir Putin is expected to be confirmed as Russia’s Prime Minister today. Putin's nomination was the first official presidential act of newly sworn-in Dmitry Medvedev. The Takeaway asks: What’s ahead for Russia?
Primary focus shifts to tiny Guam
Friday, May 02, 2008
Guamanians head to the primary polls on Saturday...
Shock and oil
Monday, April 28, 2008
Lisa Margonelli says this could be a day we all remember, when oil finally spikes to a price that makes us change our behavior.
Guest blogger Lisa Margonelli: A short history of the future of British oil
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sign up here to join Harvard's oil crisis simulation, April 28, 2008.
In 1988 I drove more than a thousand miles on a whim-fueled road trip to see an ichthysaur skeleton. The dirt ...
Betting on the oil markets
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
The last time that we saw gas prices rising this quickly was in the 1970s, when Americans responded by cutting their gas use by 30 percent.
Lisa Margonelli, author of "Oil on the B...
Fewer immigrants arrested crossing the U.S.-Mexican border
Friday, April 11, 2008
The United States has spent millions per mile to build a border fence to keep unauthorized migrants out of the country, and recently, there has been a substantial drop in migrants arr...
The politics of coming and going: HIV-positive visitors banned from the United States
Friday, April 04, 2008
Thirteen countries in the world ban HIV-positive visitors from entry, including Saudi Arabia, Russia, Sudan, Moldova... and the United States. We take a look at the ban and ask why that law has stayed on the books.