It happened yet again. An item that I planned on checking out from a distant library branch was snatched by another patron before I could get to it. The first time it happened, I was intending to borrow a book that I needed for class. By the time I trekked...

When I heard the news that Sony had been fined $10 million for bribing radio stations, I thought, and how is that news? Sony settled with the office of New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer. In a statement released by his office on Tuesday, Spitzer said, "Our investigation shows...

"A debate is raging over a microsurgeon's plan to transplant a face," read the caption on the New York Times homepage. The tease worked -- transplant a face? the horror! -- and I immediately clicked on the article. "A New Face: A Bold Surgeon, an Untried Surgery" discusses the difficulty...

I'm posting two reports that I did for my radio reporting class. The files are fairly big but unless you're on a modem, you should have no trouble listening to them. http://www.mlliu.com/Brooklyn_stoop_sales.mp3 Brooklyn stoop sales (1:42) I'd wanted to note that I always see flyers for stoop sales taped to...

Between May 2002 and December 2004, Caleb Smith walked every street in Manhattan. The press, including a journalism school classmate, wrote about his exploits. Today, All Things Considered aired an interview with a woman who walked all the streets of Minneapolis. Is this a new trend? If I did something like that...