Dec 3rd, 2008 · Detroit's top auto executives have ditched their corporate jets for hybrid cars and replaced vague pleas for federal help with detailed requests for as much as $34 billion in their second crack at persuading Congress to throw their struggling companies a lifeline.
Nov 19th, 2008 · Lots of college football fans, including President-elect Barack Obama, have said they'd like to see the sport's complex bowl championship system replaced with a playoff. That's not likely. The Bowl Championship Series has plenty of influential advocates, including college presidents.
Sep 25th, 2008 · In a matter of weeks, South African leader Thabo Mbeki was ousted and replaced by Kgalema Motlanthe, a relative newcomer. The change marks the biggest political upheaval in South Africa since the end of apartheid in 1994.
Sep 12th, 2008 · Residents of Elkhart, Ind., have a choice. They can start digging holes all over town, or they can accept that their time capsule from 1958 is gone. Fifty years later, the city would like to dig it up, but there's no official record of its location. One resident remembers that it might be on a street corner where, unfortunately, the sidewalk was recently replaced. The city plans a new time capsule with better records of its location.
Sep 3rd, 2008 · Oregon is replacing the infamous mental hospital portrayed in the Academy Award-winning film One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with a new facility. Dr. Marvin D. Fickle, former superintendent of the Oregon State Hospital, calls it a "fairly gloomy kind of place."
Aug 30th, 2008 · Oberlin English professor Anne Trubek argues that J.D. Salinger's coming-of-age novel Catcher In The Rye should be replaced in high school reading lists. She recently wrote a list of new recommendations for GOOD magazine.
Aug 17th, 2008 · There are certain terms in the sports world that just inspire awe: the hole in one, the no hitter, the perfect 10. Now you can forget about the perfect 10 — at least when it comes to Olympic gymnastics. The score that propelled Nadia Comaneci and Mary Lou Retton to fame is gone — replaced by a new system that scores most gymnasts between a 14 and a 17.
Jul 29th, 2008 · When it comes to kids in this digital age, have email and text messages replaced old-fashioned "thank you" cards? Mocha Moms Jolene Ivey, Asra Nomani, Leslie Morgan Steiner and guest mom Karen Grigsby Bates discuss how social etiquette is evolving with the new generation.