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Some families are staying home for spring break to save on gas prices. While thirty cents may not sound like a huge jump in prices since last month, it sure adds up. Analysts say prices will not come down any time soon, if at all. But people will be happy to hear that the cost of milk may be on its way down. While the cost rose 12% in 2007, the U.S.D.A. says that current prices will level or even drop due to an increase in production.
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It's getting harder and harder for hundreds of millions of people to feed their families.
Rising fuel prices are pushing up the cost of grain production. The pain is especially bad for the nearly half the world's population that depends on rice every day. As Dan Rivers reports from Thailand, that could eventually be a threat to political stability.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain made a trip to Iraq this week. He spent much of his time visiting with troops. McCain himself served with the U.S. Navy and was a prisoner of war for five and a half years during the Vietnam War. As a POW he endured periods of torture while held captive in North Vietnam.
Imagine being in a war zone... and then think of what it would be like to be blind. Baghdad has one school for blind children. Kyra Phillips reports on one former student, Ammar Ali, who came back to teach.
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Two very unusual creatures have joined the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo family. Sydney and Peanuts are echidnas, spiky little creatures from Australia. Echidnas are unique because they are among the only mammals in the world that lay eggs. They are elusive creatures - hard to find - so you'll have to look hard to find them in the zoo's Australian Adventure area.
March 20, 2008