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  • Are Stocks Cheap Or Expensive Right Now? Maybe Neither
    By one measure, stocks are valued very close to their 50-year average. This doesn't make it easier to predict what the market will do, but it does help to see beyond the day-to-day craziness in the market.
  • Austin Bruns, 25, watches as harvesters bring in corn crops on fields near his hometown of Beaver Crossing, Neb. Bruns currently rents land and would prefer to own, but banks aren't lending to high-risk new farmers.
    High Costs Make It Harder To Grow Young Farmers
    A high level of investment in agriculture is driving up land prices, making it harder for new farmers to afford their own. And banks simply aren't lending to higher-risk first-time farmers. Unless young people are left farmland by their family, they're out of luck, one banker explains.
  • Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle says the city is "the only place in the world that still has expertise about going into deep space."
    Alabama's 'Rocket City' Hopes For Another Boom
    Huntsville is the shining star in Alabama's economy. Scientists there designed the rockets that put man on the moon. In the past 50 years, it's become a magnet for high-tech space and defense jobs. But with NASA downsizing and the specter of defense cuts looming, Huntsville finds itself in limbo.
  • <p>Thousands of anti-government protesters in Yemen demonstrate against President Ali Abdullah Saleh last month. Saudi Arabia wants Saleh to step down, but also worries that his departure could lead to chaos.</p>
    Saudi Arabia's Delicate Dance On The Fate Of Yemen
    The Saudis are demanding that Yemen's president step aside after months of protest against his rule. Yet last month, the Saudis didn't stop Ali Abduallah Saleh from leaving Saudi Arabia, where he received extensive medical treatment, and returning to Yemen.
  • Huntsville Mayor Tommy Battle says the city is "the only place in the world that still has expertise about going into deep space."
    Alabama's 'Rocket City' Hopes For Another Boom
    Huntsville is the shining star in Alabama's economy. Scientists there designed the rockets that put man on the moon. In the past 50 years, it's become a magnet for high-tech space and defense jobs. But with NASA downsizing and the specter of defense cuts looming, Huntsville finds itself in limbo.
  • <p>In 1968, a year after the release of the film <em>Guess Who's Coming To Dinner,</em> a Gallup Poll revealed that just 20 percent of Americans thought it was OK for a white person to marry a black person. According to a recent 2011 Gallup Poll, 96 percent of African-Americans and 84 percent of whites accept the idea.</p>
    The Changing Face Of Seeing Race
    Blacks and whites in America both widely approve of interracial marriage, according to a recent Gallup Poll. And in practice, all racial and ethnic groups are marrying each other more than ever. Still, it hasn't been that long since most Americans strongly opposed such marriages.
  • Windmills and solar panels in Atlantic City, N.J., power a wastewater treatment plant, with surplus energy going to the area power grid. Solar and wind energy companies receive $370 million in federal subsidies annually, which is less than 1 percent of what oil and gas industries receive.
    Solyndra Highlights Long History Of Energy Subsidies
    Energy Secretary Steven Chu will face scrutiny on Capitol Hill Thursday over loans to the failed solar firm. But the government has a long history of subsidizing many kinds of energy, from coal to oil to wind. Still, different sectors disagree on whether tax deductions should be considered a subsidy.
  • The 1987 presidential campaign of Democrat Gary Hart was derailed by revelations of an affair with model Donna Rice.
    Political Affairs Now An Open Book
    Allegations of a long-term affair involving Herman Cain offer evidence that presidential candidates can't count on their private lives staying private.
  • The 1987 presidential campaign of Democrat Gary Hart was derailed by revelations of an affair with model Donna Rice.
    Political Affairs Now An Open Book
    Allegations of a long-term affair involving Herman Cain offer evidence that presidential candidates can't count on their private lives staying private.
  • André Braugher, star of 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' and 'Homicide,' dies at 61
    Braugher was known for his strong dramatic presence before he shifted gears and worked in comedy.
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