New Culprit in Climate Change? Try Airlines

Eco-campaigners say air travel is one of the fastest-growing producers of emissions linked to global warming.

En Garde! Fight Foes Using a Controller Like a Sword

With its new Wii console, Nintendo is eschewing speed and graphics quality in favor of an inventive new controller that senses a user�s motions.

British Twins Have Different Skin Color

A pair of British twin boys has been born with different skin color, a rare genetic occurrence according to experts.

Guidelines Coming for Physical Exercise

There's a food pyramid to help guide people's eating habits, so why not one for exercise? The Bush administration said Thursday it would develop guidelines for physical activity.

Trial Draws Attention to Genital Cutting

The trial of an Atlanta-area father accused of circumcising his 2-year-old daughter with scissors is focusing attention on an ancient African practice that experts say is slowly becoming more common in the U.S. as immigrant communities grow.

Teen Has Breast Removed After Infection

A teenager who decided to get her breasts pierced for her 18th birthday faces reconstructive surgery after a flesh-destroying infection forced doctors to remove her left breast.

Contaminated Medicine Kills 34 in Panama

First comes nausea and diarrhea. Then the facial muscles relax, followed by kidney failure, paralysis and often death. It's a medical crisis in Panama, where contaminated cough syrup, antihistamine tablets, calamine lotion and rash ointment have killed 34 people since July. More than 40 others have been hospitalized, at least half in critical condition.

Ailing 'Dilbert' Cartoonist Talks Again

A balding, bespectacled working stiff inexplicably loses his voice - except when speaking in rhyme or pinching his nose. It may sound like a farcical plot for a popular cartoon satirizing American office culture, but "Dilbert" cartoonist Scott Adams says he recovered less than a week ago from just such an affliction.

Doctors Struggle to Save Wounded Marine

The chaplain assigned to the medical camp was drafting a homily. The heart surgeon was using the quiet spell to edit a medical paper. The medics chatted over lunch. Twenty miles away, on the desert plain outside Fallujah, an insurgent's bullet tore through the body of a young Marine.

No Clear Answers in E. Coli Infections

Like lab technicians on a crime-scene television drama, investigators have tracked a strain of bacteria over thousands of miles - from bagged spinach in Midwestern refrigerators to the guts of a wild pig in the hills of California's central coast.

Caffeine-Stoked Energy Drinks Worry Docs

More than 500 new energy drinks launched worldwide this year, and coffee fans are probably too old to understand why.

KFC to Use No-Trans-Fat Oil in Chicken

KFC Corp. said Monday it will start using zero trans fat soybean oil for its Original Recipe and Extra Crispy fried chicken, Potato Wedges and other menu items.

Data-monitor firm gains new financing

Narus Inc., a maker of network technology to monitor phone and Internet traffic, said today that it has raised $30 million in new capital to fund development of next-generation products and expand overseas sales.

NIH ethics rules may force out scientists ( / ASSOCIATED PRESS)

Nearly 40 percent of the scientists conducting hands-on research at the National Institutes of Health say they are looking for other jobs or are considering doing so in order to escape new ethics rules that have curtailed their opportunity to earn outside

Action urged on China disputes ( / ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A congressional advisory panel's draft report is urging lawmakers to push for tough action against China on two festering trade disputes.

Rapid growth eyed by ink filler (Jen Haberkorn / THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

A local business owner is banking on Washingtonians caring about what happens to their computer printer ink cartridges.

White House denies Cheney hailed torture