Greece clinches World Cup berth after topping Romania in playoff

BUCHAREST, Romania â Greece reached its second straight World Cup and third overall, beating Romania on 4-2 aggregate with a 1-1 draw Tuesday night.

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Greece returns to World Cup with Romania draw

BUCHAREST, Romania â Greece reached its second straight World Cup and third overall, beating Romania on 4-2 aggregate with a 1-1 draw Tuesday night.

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All Crossroads Lead to Athens

ATHENS - In the abandoned building that once housed the Athens Stock Exchange, artist Teo is shuffling between the Fool, the Magician and the Devil in a Tarot card reading to divine the fate of the crippled Greek nation. Above his head, a flickering electronic installation depicts share prices from 2007 near the market?s euro-era peak, before six years of recession and successive bailouts wiped about 48 billion euros ($65 billion) off the economy. Temporary home to the Athens Biennale arts exhibition, the disused trading floor has become a mausoleum of former wealth and a hotbed of conjecture. Economists and artists have come together to tackle the question on all Greek minds: now what?

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Greek Salad America's No. 1 Lunch

What?s your favorite food to eat for lunch? According to a national survey by GrubHub Seamless, working Americans can?t get enough Greek salad. The company analyzed data from orders made across the country and narrowed them to just the ?work? addresses (rather than ?home? addresses). They also made sure to only include weekday orders in order to narrow in on workday lunch trends. While GrubHub Seamless has a network of over 25,000 restaurants, when it comes to ordering lunch, healthier options prevailed.

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Letter From Athens: SYRIZA's Circle of Confusion

The first rule of politics: Never Ask For A Vote You?re Going To Lose. That?s why U.S. President Barack Obama wisely backed off asking the Congress to approve his wish to launch an attack on Syria for using chemical weapons to kill thousands of people, mostly women and children. He didn?t have the votes. That led to Russian President Vladimir Putin also becoming President of the United States and setting foreign policy for Obama, who ? like former shameless Greek Prime Ministers George Papandreou and Costas Karamanlis was forced to take a back seat ? but that?s another matter. Major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, who's been floundering in his attempt to convince the populace to rise up against Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' coalition government, has been taking a bigger licking than a Timex watch, but he just keeps on ticking although he doesn?t know the time of day.

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The Unpaid Scientists of Greece

Greece, Spain, Italy, and Portugal are among the countries hit most severely by Europe's economic crisis. Science has not been spared. On Nov. 8, in a meeting organized under the auspices of EuroScience, scientists from the four countries gathered in Barcelona to discuss the impact of the funding cuts. Among the speakers was Varvara Trachana, a Greek biologist who, in April 2011, was hired by the University of Thessaly, Larissa, to fill an assistant professor position in cell biology at the Faculty of Medicine. But today, more than two years later, the Greek government has not yet approved the budget necessary to pay Trachana's salary, effectively leaving her unemployed. Trachana is hardly alone in this predicament. Some 750 Greek scientists, at least, have spent a minimum of two years waiting for their salary to be funded so they can start their tenure-track positions at one of the Greek universities.

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Too Many Cooks In Greek Political Kitchen

In crisis-ridden Athens, the political crisis is flaring up. The conclusions are obvious. The evidence is visible to the naked eye and cannot be clearer. It?s all over the front pages of the capital?s Sunday newspapers. The newspaper To Vima?s headline, broad and thick, almost from nowhere from those in the dark, raises the issue of the formation of a new government. The subhead reads: The Pressure from the Europeans Will Lead to ?Developments.? The main headline is: Political Kitchen - with Chef Troika, play on words from a well-known film. Could the paper?s intentions have been any more revealing?

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