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...young Tom Hanks, history was as dull as an algebra equation. For Hanks - a classic baby boomer, born in 1956 - World War II was just a string of long-ago muzzle flashes in black-and-white. Yet he did have a more direct connection to the global cataclysm. His father had been a U.S. Naval mechanic (second class) in World War II. But Amos Hanks wasn't the type to tell his son tales of bravery and sacrifice. "Growing up, I always knew Dad was somewhere in the Pacific fixing things," Hanks says. "He had nothing nice to say about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Tom Hanks Became America's Historian in Chief | 3/6/2010 | See Source »

...authored the 2006 book “What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution,” which examines the immigration experiences of a group of refugees born between...

Author: By Sally K. Scopa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: German Refugee Children Thrived In United States | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...list of CIS’s  execrable connections goes on even further. The group regularly circulates articles to its membership produced by the white nationalist website VDARE. VDARE is named after Virginia Dare, allegedly the first white child born in North America. Some of its board members also serve in leadership posts at the anti-immigrant Federation for American Immigration Reform...

Author: By Heidi Beirich, Kyle A. De beausset, and Clara Long | Title: Legitimizing Hate | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

Hispanic and African American mothers were more likely to be overweight when pregnant, and their children more likely to be born small, gain excess weight over time, get less sleep, and begin eating solid food sooner, the researchers found...

Author: By Julia R Jeffries, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Childhood Obesity Prevention Should Start Early | 3/5/2010 | See Source »

...leader of the group was Gelowicz, who was born in Munich and converted to Islam when he was 16. Though he became a devout Muslim, he appeared to lead the life of a normal teenager - he even played quarterback on an American football team. Things changed, however, when he started visiting an Islamic center in the southern city of Neu-Ulm and found himself outraged over the photos of the Abu Ghraib prison scandal in Iraq and the terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay. "This Islamic center was a meeting place for young Muslims and they felt a sense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany Convicts Men Who Plotted 'Second 9/11' | 3/4/2010 | See Source »

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