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Aung San Suu Kyi has emerged from the shadows of protest in Myanmar and taking a seat in the country's government. That's enabled her to travel the world, finally, and to the United States this week. But her visit comes shortly before the visit of the president who implemented reforms that freed her, which has forced the U.S., and her, into difficult balancing act.

No one had quantified how much carcinogens linger in people's clothes after they get back from the dry cleaner's, until a high school student started asking questions.

While Joe Biden goes on a charm offensive with his Chinese hosts, a "friendly" match between Chinese and US basketball teams turns decidedly unfriendly.

We talk with Harry Holzer, professor of public policy at Georgetown and a former Chief Economist at the U.S. Department of Labor. He is also the author of the new book 'Where Are All the Good Jobs Going?'

A new program aims to curb terrorism and fight the Taliban by teaching former Taliban fighters to make bread.

Even if the economy, as a whole, were to make an unexpected recovery, that wouldn't bring back the single manufacturing plant in a rural area that largely sustained area residents. How are small towns weathering the recession?

Sales are up for Rosetta Stone, the language learning software that claims to change the way people learn languages.