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UNICEF and Japan support '1,000 Classrooms Project' in Afghan capital

Girls and boys were thrilled with the recent inauguration of a new high school in the Afghan capital, built as part of a major project in which the government will construct over 1,000 new classrooms in 58 schools in and a...

Forging a Four-Sided Afghan Deal

The Afghanistan war strategy review released December 16 hews to President Barack Obama's pledge of last year and aims to begin "a responsible" drawdown of U.S. troops from the country in July 2011. However, a negotiated s...

Federal Court Orders First-Ever Destruction of a GMO Crop

Today Federal District Judge Jeffrey S. White issued a preliminary injunction ordering the immediate destruction of hundreds of acres of genetically engineered (GE) sugar beet seedlings planted in September after finding t...

A Defining Moment for EPA and America's Health

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