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President Obama's six-month extension of a ban is likely to cause deep economic pain along the Gulf of Mexico, and could lead oil companies to seek work in other countries. But short-term imports of oil won't necessarily cause the price of oil to spike.

Imagine what your life would be like if your days were as immersed in nature as they are in technology. That's a question and challenge posed in Richard Louv's new book The Nature Principle. the new book THE NATURE PRINCIPLE. It's not an anti-technology argument, but rather a suggestion that our urban, high-tech lives are missing something crucially important. Encounters with nature enrich humans in ways we don't even fully understand yet...and those encounters are rapidly disappearing. IRichard Louv's new book, The Nature Principal: Human Restoration And The End Of The Nature Deficit Disorder, expands on his thesis that our society has developed such faith in technology that we don't realize how human capacities are enhanced through the power of the natural world.

The reputations of the major credit rating agencies were seriously damaged in the subprime mortgage crisis. Jules Kroll is starting a new firm that promises to scrutinize underlying assets more closely. And he's looking to to be backed by pension funds and other investors instead of the financial firms selling the investments.

The first test beams of protons were sent through tunnels in a multibillion-dollar machine Wednesday. Later this fall, the Large Hadron Collider will begin smashing subatomic particles together so that scientists can search through the wreckage for clues about the early universe.

State School Superintendent Jack O'Connell reviews the latest results of the California physical fitness test which show that less than 30 percent of the state's students achieved fitness standards fo

Spotting a lie is a crucial part of police work. KPBS reporter Tom Fudge says a psychologist at San Diego's National University may have found a new way to do it.

Modern medicine can perform miracles. But it can't offer spiritual guidance or emotional support when a person is sick or dying. While doctors and nurses work to cure the body, hospital chaplains try to heal the soul.

In a country that seems headed toward austerity, what will become of the government's two keystone entitlements, Social Security and Medicare? The public trustees of the two programs, Charles Blahous and Robert Reischauer, say they're worried that the day of reckoning is here.

Yonkers Joe doesn't want to look at the world of small time gamblers in search of a big scam but rather at how petty con men try to juggle their work and…

One San Diego lawmaker wants Congress to boost mental health funding for soldiers and marines. This comes after the multiple killings at Camp Liberty in Iraq.