Can this kid save classical music?

Gustavo Dudamel y Xosé, originally uploaded by Traductoreces.
Is the person you see on the left the 21st Century face of classical music?
Gustavo Dudamel is the focus of the latest Y! News 60 Minutes segment. He is a 27-year-old prodigy who has been appointed to be the next music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. That’s [...]

The mighty penny?

Our current Y! News 60 Minutes segment: should we get rid of the penny?
That question comes from critics who point out that it costs the U.S. government almost 2 cents to make a penny, because the metal it’s made from is more expensive than the coin’s face value. And before you get any ideas: the [...]

The key to happiness

Update (2/17/08): We’ve published the 60 Minutes segment on happiness. Please take a look!
This Sunday, 60 Minutes will broadcast, and we will publish on the Yahoo! News 60 Minutes page, a fascinating story about the happiest country in the world – technically, the country with the most content people. That country is Denmark, and [...]

Saving the humble telephone booth

One of our latest interactives in our partnership with PRI’s “The World” is the story of telephone booths in the outer reaches of Scotland – the Scottish highlands.
The telephone booths have been part of people’s lives there for a long time, but they are being removed because they’re no longer used enough to make [...]

Hillary Clinton v. Barack Obama poll

The question isn’t, who do you want to win, but who do you think will win. The answer from the more than 13,000 people who took the poll so far seems to reflect the news. . .
In our Yahoo! News 60 Minutes segment on Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, we included a poll asking [...]