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(Urban kids who feel safe delay gratification, behave less dangerously.)

(Hillary Clinton says the media coverage is pro-Barack Obama. This has forced some news organizations to take another look at their presidential election coverage, as well as take a closer look at Obama and his background. Bucy discusses the media coverage.)

(In Goldstein's view, the power of an irreverent image, cartoon or illustration can appeal to the most people---and leave an indelible impression.)

(University of Michigan finance professor explains what and why the Federal Reserve intervened in the Bear Stearns banking crisis.)

(Victor Yanovsky, research scientist at U-M, discusses the laser beam that sets a world record for intensity.)

(Americans may not socialize with colleagues as much as workers in other countries do, but they enjoy it when they do.)

(Online question and answer forums are as old as the Internet, but they're reaching the mainstream and making the web more human, say two researchers who have just completed a large-scale study of Yahoo Answers.)

(The University of Michigan Law School will open a new clinic in January that will assist prisoners convicted in cases where biological evidence like DNA doesn't exist. This Innocence Clinic is unique because other "Innocence Clinics" mainly handle cases involving DNA evidence.)

(MMPEI is working with other organizations on campus to develop a tool to help scientists and engineers project whether new cleaner technologies will take hold.)

(Researchers from the University of Michigan Health System and the Veterans Administration Ann Arbor Healthcare System say sedentary and overweight people with type two diabetes who participated in a walking study were more motivated to walk if they wore pedometers and consulted a Web site that tracked physicals activity.)