Sunday Newscape Magazine

Stanford, California - The circadian rhythm that quietly pulses inside us all, guiding our daily cycle from sleep to wakefulness and back to sleep again, may be doing much more than just that simple metronomic task, according to Stanford researchers. Working with Siberian hamsters, biologist Norman Ruby has shown that having a functioning circadian system is critical to the hamsters’ ability to remember what they have learned. Without it, he said, “They can’t remember anything.”

I decided to take a break from worrying about whether the American economy is heading for a hot place in a hand basket, so I went to a football game. Not just any football game - an NFL (Not For Low-incomers) game. An NFL event is a reassuring example of the strength of our capitalist system. You get to invest extraordinary amounts of your personal capital in things like tickets, hot dogs and soft drinks while having the pleasure of watching hefty, well-paid men run around chasing a piece of pigskin.

Their numbers range in the thousands across this country with more joining the ranks everyday. They don’t need to be certified, just creative, suave, very hyper and poof! You have a motivational speaker. Of coarse there is some intelligence involved, but you get the picture.

Show of hands, guys. How many times have you been sitting in your living room, beer in one hand, backup beer in the other, watching the game (the one where the next 2.7 seconds, give or take an hour, will single-handedly determine the fate of everything you hold most sacred), when out of the corner of your eye you notice that old bookcase of yours and suddenly realize what’s been bugging you for months, maybe even years,

Washington, DC - Over the course of a century - during which we’ve been involved in just about every major event in U.S. history and had countless innovations and famous cases - it’s hard to pick just ten. But here, in chronological order, are our choices for the top ten moments in FBI history…

Chicago, Illinois - Luigi Zingales, the Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, is scheduled to testify about the causes and effects of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform on Monday, October 6, at 9 a.m. CDT.