Earlier this week, a Staten Island woman was arrested after she stabbed a 19-year-old suspected of stealing her son's iPod. A study released by the Urban Institute links a rise in violent crime between 2005 and 2006 to the proliferation of iPods. Though violent crime had been dropping up until 2004, iPod-envy started to spread. In New York, gadget-related crimes were a big news story in 2005: Though subway crime was dropping, iPod and cellphone......

Sitting on the couch watching the forecast wondering if an umbrella is going to be a required accessory is something we do quite frequently. And often we are confused by the call, "50% chance of rain". Does this mean that the forecasters just really have no idea whether it's going to rain or not? While that is what it sounds like, it's not wholly accurate. We have our precipitation forecast served to us in two......