July 20, 2010 at 11:27 am
Once again, Toyota has been subpoeaned by a federal grand jury in New York seeking information on steering-related defects in its vehicles, and possibly broadening a probe into the Japanese automater’s handling of a recall back in 2005. Law Professor Keith Hylton, an expert in liability law, says the case may come down to how much […]
Waiting only for the late Sen. Robert Byrd’s replacement to be sworn in so they have enough votes, Senate Democrats were voting break the GOP-led stalemate and extend unemployment benefits for millions of Americans who have been out of work 6 months or more. Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of “Only in America? American […]
SED was recently ranked in the top twenty large universities for the amount of graduates it provided to the 2010 Teach for America (TFA) corps. Out of the 4,500 new corps members in 2010, 35 of them came from Boston University. Director of Educational Initiatives at SED Amy Slate said, “We have found our partnership […]
July 19, 2010 at 12:36 pm
A 2-year investigation by the Washington Post shows that the top-secret world the federal government built in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks now is so big, unwieldly, and secretive that no one really knows how much it costs, how many people it employs, how many programs there are, or how much overlap there is among agencies. […]
July 19, 2010 at 11:37 am
The heat is certainly on in much of the country this summer. For information about heat exhaustion and tips for staying healthy during hot, humid weather, BU Now spoke with Dr. Jonathan Olshaker, Chief of Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center and Professor and Chairman of Emergency Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine.
The Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, an 842-square-mile submerged plateau off Massachusetts with a wealth of endangered whales and old shipwrecks, has finally got the attention of the federal government. A newly released management plan builds a scientific case for better protecting the sanctuary from humans. Biology Professor Les Kaufman, who had a hand in devising it, says […]
With the Senate finally passing the complex financial regulatory reform law and sending it to President Obama for his signature, the work now turns to the hundreds of regulations and dozens of studies which must be completed to implement the most sweeping financial reform since the Great Depression. But while regulators work on all of […]
For the first time since the sinking of a South Korean warship in March, which Seoul blames on the North, officials from North Korea met with the American-led United Nations Command which enforces the armistice that ended the Korean War. International relations Professor William Keylor, author of “A World of Nations: The International Order Since […]
In hopes of slowing the growing scourge of killer bacteria, the Food and Drug Administration has released a policy document that says agricultural uses of antibiotics should be limited to assuring animal health. But the FDA again stopped short of banning antibiotics in feed given cattle, chickens and pigs — as European regulators already have. […]
July 13, 2010 at 11:57 am
With all eyes toward November’s mid-term elections, a new Washington Post/ABC poll shows only 43 percent of Americans approving the job President Obama is doing on the economy, a new low for him. A new CBS poll has that number at 40 percent, with 54 percent disapproving. Political science Professor Graham Wilson, author of “Only […]
