Reversing a decision that some found bureaucratically absurd, the Federal Emergency Management Agency granted $99,766 Wednesday to an aquarium that saved taxpayers a bundle by catching replacements for the fish it lost to Hurricane Katrina. ...more

November 22, 2007

I may need to change my long-term goal, which is to make it to retirement, at which time I'd planned to sleep late and loll around until 11, drinking coffee and reading the paper. ...more

November 8, 2007

Washoe, a female chimpanzee thought to be the first nonhuman to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. ...more

November 1, 2007

Three strong earthquakes struck Sunday near New Zealand and the U.S. territory of Guam in remote parts of the South Pacific, monitoring agencies said. ...more

October 1, 2007