Today is Thursday, Jan. 8th, the eighth day of 2009. There are 357 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Jan. 8, 1935, rock-and-roll legend Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss. On this date: In 1798, the Eleventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was declared in effect by President John Adams ...

Podiatrists and textile designers may have their own opinions about why stockings droop, but it is first and foremost an engineering question. That's why a study called Prevention from Slipping Down of Top Parts of Socks, published in 2006 in the Journal of Textile Engineering, stands paramount. The authors, Toshiyuki Tsujisaka, Yoichi Matsumoto, Hiroaki Ishizawa, Yoshiaki Azuma and Hideo ...