Day: September 25, 2005

Is your mother’s kitchen harboring a terrorist device?

Katrina and Rita have kicked off a debate among scientists over the impact of global climate change on hurricane intensity, but it doesn’t appear the environmental issue has grabbed the attention of Washington.

Two federal agencies are investigating Senate Republican leader Bill Frist’s sudden sale of all of his stock in the hospital-management company founded by his father.

As the nation approaches a fifth week of near-constant news coverage of Hurricanes Katrina and now Rita, mental-health experts are cautioning parents about exposing young children to the troubling scenes and sounds of disaster zones.