New Years is a good time to reflect on the vast changes that underpin the changing modern world: New Years review of good things that came this past year

Progress watch 2012: Smart phones, jobs returning to America, and war crimes trials

The Christian Science Monitor

Good news is hard to find. That’s partly because, no matter what the topic, there’s so much distracting bad news: ongoing violence in Syria, America’s allegedly imminent fiscal demise, the National Hockey League lockout. From the front page to the sports page, so little looks good. It isn’t just the