american nuns resist Vatican rebuke - Alexandria Daily Town Talk
26 May 2012, 2:48 am
OSSINING, N.Y. -- As the Vatican accuses american nuns of spending too much time on human rights and helping the poor, some Catholic activists who support them are organizing vigils and petitions to persuade the church to change its mind.

'american Idol' Alum Brooke White Gives Birth to Baby Girl - Hollywood Reporter
26 May 2012, 2:41 am
american Idol season 7 alum Brooke White gave birth to a baby girl on Thursday, May 24. The 28-year-old singer and her husband Dave Ray welcomed London into the world at 8 lbs., 12 ounces. Married for eight years, it's the couple's first child and ...

american tariffs on Chinese solar panels are dangerous and pointless - Economist.com
26 May 2012, 2:13 am
SOLAR energy is at a delicate, maybe historic, moment. The cost of the glassy photovoltaic panels that generate most solar electricity—by freeing electrons from a semiconducting material such as silicon—is plummeting. In the past four years their ...

'american Idol's' Kris Allen, Former Winner, Says Fox Show Has Been 'On For Too Long' - Huffington Post
25 May 2012, 11:35 pm
Should "american Idol" call it quits? Kris Allen seems to think so. Despite being proclaimed "vanilla" and a "guy with no personality" by HuffPost's Dan Abramson, the Season 8 winner has some strong feelings about the Fox show that made him famous.

Whitten wins stage, american Armstrong falls - Idaho Press-Tribune
25 May 2012, 10:31 pm
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Canadian Tara Whitten won the prologue of the Exergy Tour bike race, after american gold medalist Kristin Armstrong fell during the two-mile stage. Armstrong, the last of 103 riders to start Thursday at the race in Boise, fell hard at ...

Who's an american Indian? Warren case stirs query - msnbc.com
25 May 2012, 9:48 pm
By JESSE WASHINGTON AP National Writer What, exactly, makes someone american Indian? Even Indians themselves don't agree as they debate the case of Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren, whose disputed claim of Native american identity is shining a rare ...

american Airlines, unions spar over request to throw out labor deals - Dallas Morning News
25 May 2012, 7:32 pm
NEW YORK — Three weeks of hearings ended Friday, with american Airlines Inc. urging a bankruptcy judge to allow it to reject its labor contracts and its unions arguing that the carrier was asking for too much, too soon. Permeating the closing ...

'american Idol's' Phillip Phillips Had 8 Kidney Surgeries on His Way to Victory - YAHOO!
25 May 2012, 7:10 pm
"american Idol" winner Phillip Phillips had kidney surgery eight times during his journey to victory, his father revealed after Wednesday's finale. And he's not done with the doctors just yet. Phillips was plagued by kidney stones as he strummed and sang ...

For Native american Women, Scourge of Rape, Rare Justice - New York Times
23 May 2012, 1:43 pm
EMMONAK, Alaska — She was 19, a young Alaska Native woman in this icebound fishing village of 800 in the Yukon River delta, when an intruder broke into her home and raped her. The man left. Shaking, the woman called the tribal police, a force ...

american Physics Dreams Deferred - New York Times
22 May 2012, 3:25 pm
When three american astronomers won the Nobel Prize in Physics last year, for discovering that the expansion of the universe was speeding up in defiance of cosmic gravity — as if change fell out of your pockets onto the ceiling — it ...