Stones night a ‘Beast of Burden’ for Idols

Two hours is a very long time to commit to a television show. Add the interactivity element to it, as “American Idol” does, and you’re asking viewers to spend their entire after-dinner evening watching relative unknowns cover Rolling Stones tunes, and then pick up the phones to vote and text for their favorites.

US State Department buying $5.4M fine crystal stemware... from Sweden

Hillary Rodham Clinton's State Department is spending $5.4 million to buy fine crystal stemware for American embassies -- but it won't give the US economy much of a boost.

A Solar Battery in a Pea Pod - Made in Israel - Israel News - Israel National News

(IsraelNN.com) "Professor Nathan Nelson of Tel Aviv University has discovered a crystal that could revolutionize solar energy in a common vegetable.

Billy Crystal: Dallas Cowboy for a day

Billy Crystal traded a stage for a Salvation Army center to help serve an early Thanksgiving lunch to the needy in Dallas.

Robert Schuller's son leaves Crystal Cathedral

The Rev. Robert A. Schuller has resigned as senior pastor of the Crystal Cathedral, shortly after his father yanked him from the church's long-running television program, "Hour of Power."