Jan 28th, 2006 · Randal O'Toole's Cato Institute study, "A Desire Named Streetcar," finds public transit systems wasting federal dollars and losing riders. O'Toole tells Scott Simon he favors more buses and fewer costly light-rail projects.
Jan 20th, 2006 · Animal scientist Temple Grandin says autism helps her see things as animals do. Grandin talks about her work designing humane slaughter systems for animals, and her unique way of looking at the world.
Jan 7th, 2006 · Google founder Larry Page and Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel offer similar messages in keynote speeches at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. They hope the audience of gadget manufacturers will simplify their products... and do away with competing and incompatible systems.
Jan 3rd, 2006 · Northern California residents are cleaning up and rebuilding after a week of powerful storms overwhelmed drainage systems and flooded many towns as rivers reached historic heights. The flooding strained the system of levees protecting cities and crucial farmland in the state's Central Valley.
Dec 12th, 2005 · Japan announces it will end its two-year-old moratorium on imports of beef from the United States. But suppliers who want to sell beef to Japan will have to set up systems to track cattle to prove the meat comes from cows that are less than 30 months old.
Dec 7th, 2005 · Humanitarian groups are finding cheaper ways -- namely, filtering systems -- to clean up contaminated drinking water in developing nations. That could greatly reduce diseases caused by bacteria, viruses and parasites among the billion people worldwide who drink unsafe water.
Nov 23rd, 2005 · Entrepreneur Paul English has produced a "must have" for the modern consumer. It's a guide to the customer service phone systems of major corporations. The big payoff? The guide tells you the quickest way to reach a human.
Nov 11th, 2005 · Increasingly, communities are moving to the use of electronic voting systems for their elections, moving away from paper punch cards and mechanical lever systems. Are concerns about security flaws in electronic voting systems any closer to being resolved?