The United States is honoring the Nation’s presidents by issuing $1 circulating coins featuring their images in the order that they served, beginning with Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Madison in 2007.

Chinese automakers sold 414,500 cars in January, down 2.05 percent from the previous month but up 39.05 percent from the same month last year, according to the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

Man-made climate change may be happening at a far slower rate than has been claimed, according to controversial new research. Scientists say that cosmic rays from outer space play a far greater role in changing the Earth’s climate than global warming experts previously thought.

The latest numbers are out: nearly 800,000 Americans were arrested on marijuana charges in 2005. American taxpayers are now spending more than a billion dollars per year to incarcerate its citizens for pot. That’s according to statistics recently released by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Statistics.

The Observer:  We asked a panel of female authors, politicians, and media and business powers to nominate the men they believed best understood women. Their choices were diverse, contradictory, surprising and controversial. And the winners are …

Seth Godin:  There are many incorrect ways to formulate an apology, but only a few correct ones.

Nothing cheesy about this butt and guts story from Wisconsin.

The pens are valued at $730,000, making them the world’s most expensive writing instruments.