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As many as a quarter of U.S. students report being a victim of bullying. This Sunday, the Cartoon Network will air Speak Up, a new documentary that shares the stories of victims. Host Michel Martin speaks with bullying expert Duane Thomas and Aaron Cheese, a student featured in the film.

The other week, I experienced poetry whilst shopping for seedlings at a market. Has this ever happened to you? To begin with, I bumped into a delightful…

Listen to conversations these days, and you may notice that responses such as "thank you" and "you're welcome" have fallen by the wayside in favor of the casual "got it" and "you bet." Are we finding new ways to say old, polite phrases? Are good manners merely morphing? Or are they fading away altogether?

When U.S. troops inadvertently burned Qurans last month, it triggered large-scale rioting across Afghanistan that led to dozens of deaths. By comparison, the Afghan reaction has been comparatively muted so far to the shooting deaths of 16 innocent civilians. Why the difference?

All was not gloom and doom for the on-again, off-again, on-again frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. A new Pew Research poll indicated that Romney was once again the clear favorite nationally among Republicans and GOP-leaning independents for the nomination, leading Rick Santorum 33 to 24 percent in a poll that was in the field through Sunday.

A new study finds that in some cities the odds of "century" floods could double and even triple because of rising sea levels. The most vulnerable state is Florida.

In October of 2011, Terry Thompson opened the cages of dozens of wild animals on his farm in Ohio — lions, bears, leopards, tigers, monkeys and wolves — and then shot himself in the head. The nearby city of Zanesville was put on lockdown as police tracked and killed many of the escaped animals.

A single statistic can help show how beneficial, or not, a treatment is. It's called the number needed to treat. And the lower it is, the better.

Gasoline costs about 50 cents more per gallon than it did in January. Motorists dread the trip to the pump and wonder why prices are so high — and when they'll go back down. But growing world demand could mean oil prices will continue to rise in coming years.