"In Japan there is a proverb, 'If it stinks, put a lid on it,'" wrote Jeff Kingston of TUJ in a Wall Street Journal opinion essay called "A Crisis Made in Japan." "Alas, this seems to have been Toyota's approach to its burgeoning safety crisis, initially denying, minimizing and mitigating the problems involving brakes that don't brake and accelerators that have a mind of their own."

As the Supreme Court nears the midpoint of its term, one question looms: Will the justices' split decision reversing past rulings and allowing new corporate spending in political races set the tone for the term, or will Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission be an exception? David Kairys of Temple's Beasley School of Law expects Citizens United to "define more than this particular term…It might define the Roberts Court."

Want to protect your preschooler from obesity? Eat dinner as a family six or seven times a week, limit the time the child watches TV to less than two hours a day and make sure he or she gets more than 10.5 hours of sleep a night. Those three simple household routines are associated with an almost 40 percent reduction in the risk of childhood obesity, according to a study co-authored by Robert Whitaker of Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education.