The blizzard that hit New York last week dumped 24 inches on the city and paralyzed almost all surface transport. But New York’s subways, which were begun in 1904, kept on zipping along, heedless of the tempest above.

In Greek mythology, the fifth epic labor of Hercules was to clean up the manure created by thousands of oxen over three decades from the stable of Augeas. Hercules cleaned the stable by diverting two rivers through it. Then, he went on to found the Olympics. Today, Greece’s public finances are another Augean Stable. In spite of being a small nation of only 10.7 million, Greece’s fina

To fete the 31st anniversary of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gleefully announced his nation will enrich uranium to 20%.