Archive for ‘November, 2008’

Iconic images recalled

On June 8, 1968, Paul Fusco stood with his camera before the open window of a train carrying the Robert Kennedy’s coffin just after his assassination.

Boston’s homeless at risk

About 3.5 million people are likely to experience homelessness in a given year, and about 1.4 million of those individuals sleeping on streets will be children, according to a 2007 National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty.

Prof. bias proves weak in study

Impassioned professors standing on soapboxes in classrooms have less of an effect on their students than critics might fear, according to a recent study.

Experts find hunger focused in Africa, India

A 47-percent rise in global food prices’ could give many Americans pause as Thanksgiving apporaches, but it is a full-blown disaster to the more than 200 million malnourished people in India and the steadily increasing number of people in Africa living on less than $1 a day.

Top Democrat sees liberal U.S. future

With an economic crisis expanding throughout the world and a country wallowing in low morale, President-elect Barack Obama has a lot to clean up in the nation, and U.S. Rep. Barney Frank explained how he was going to handle it Thursday night at Suffolk University.