Manuel Uribe hasn’t left his bed or his apartment in Monterrey, Mexico, in five years.
That’s because less than a year ago, at 1,200 pounds, he was considered by many to be the heaviest man in the world.
Currently on a diet — he’s following The Zone — he now weighs 800 pounds, but still can’t [...]

Klaus Lackner’s invention has been called many things — a wind scrubber, a synthetic tree, a carbon vacuum, even a giant fly swatter.
The energy guru, inventor and professor at Columbia University prefers to call it an “air extractor.” By any name, however, Lackner predicts that the giant machines he is building will one day stop [...]

The phone broke Leslie Kenney’s sleep at 6 a.m. Her younger daughter’s college friend was calling from Oregon, where 26-year-old Elizabeth Kenney was visiting.
“Elizabeth has been hit by a car,” the friend said.
“What?” Leslie asked, snapping awake. “How bad, Jessie?”
“She has head injuries.”
Leslie Kenney had spent 12 years doing fundraising and advocacy work to [...]

On May 3, 1971, anti-war protesters calling themselves the Mayday Tribe began four days of demonstrations in Washington, D.C., aimed at shutting down the nation’s capital. (Go to article.)
1802 Washington, D.C., was incorporated as a city.
1898 Israeli founder and prime minister Golda Meir was born Goldie Mabovitch in Kiev, Ukraine.
1916 Irish nationalist Padraic Pearse and [...]