General Motors chief executive Rick Wagoner issued public statements indicating that a vast remaking of the Detroit based motor company will make it nearly indistinguishable from its current form. Wagoner, who appeared before Congress twice seeking federal taxpayer bailout money to save the auto concern, said that the company will not resemble the GM that […]

The non-partisan government agency the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued a report that projected that the Obama administration’s program agenda and budget plans would push deficits up, generating a cumulative near $1 trillion a year, over the next ten years. This is nearly $2.3 trillion more for that period than the Obama administration officials […]

The practice of collaborative law offers plaintiffs and defendants in legal disputes a structured process of settling their differences– an alternative to court processes that can often become costly and emotionally draining. The practice enables couples seeking separation and divorce to focus on family issues that will benefit their children by establishing a cooperative environment, as opposed to litigation. Black and White talks to Susan DiGirolamo, a collaborative law practitioner in Pennsylvania, about the quickly growing trend. DiGirolamo has been practicing law for 15 years. Her collaborative law practice is nearly two years old.

Folding@home is a large, world-wide volunteer-based distributed computing project started by a research group at Stanford University in 2000.  The group, headed by Professor Vijay Pande, has just just passed the 4 petaflop scale, making it the most powerful distributed supercomputer in the world. Black and White profiles the project.