Dr. Lee Hood (center left, in jacket) and members of his Institute for Systems Biology lab group celebrate with a made-in-Seattle toast after he learned he would receive the National Medal of Science.
Protesters crowd Wisconsin's state Capitol during a demonstration against Gov. Scott Walker's proposals to take away public employees' bargaining rights.
The current argument about Starbucks' policy of allowing guns to be openly carried in its stores shows how the debate has gone from looking for reasonable regulations to the idea that there should be...