Some notable New York restaurants will abolish tipping and pay higher wages to waiters.

I am totally in favor of this.

Many common surgical operations, and chemotherapy for cancer, will become dangerous if we don't stop the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

If we end the tightly-packed factory farms for meat, and eat less meat, we will need fewer operations, and we will be less likely to die of an infection when we do need one.

Obama will direct the EPA to reduce use of hydrofluorocarbons, which are immensely powerful greenhouse gases.

A presidential candidate in Uganda has been placed under house arrest to stop him from holding public campaign rallies.

A microwave camera being developed at MIT can see people through walls.

What do we need to put in our walls to block this camera? I think screens on a window will probably block microwaves except perhaps for the lowest wavelengths.