Three games in, and already it's apparent that there's something different about Sean Avery's head. This goes beyond the new helmet he was hawking after scoring two goals in the Rangers' 7-2 drubbing of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday night.
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Question: I'm 24 years old and feel like I've become a savings junkie. I've already maxed out my Roth 401(k) contribution for this year and now I'm thinking about opening up an IRA too. I have no debt, and I have about $13,000 in other savings as well. What do you think -- should I open the IRA? --Kyle, Boston, Mass.
After being laid off this summer, Amy Bauer began to contemplate a career switch (from investor relations to corporate social responsibility). But it had been more than a decade since the 37-year-old from the Baltimore area had even crafted a résumé. For assistance, she turned to a career coach.
When you attend an NHL training camp, you see a team's entire staff -- from the GM right through the scouts. They spend hour upon hour watching the very players they spent hours and hours watching before drafting and signing them. All of which begs the question: what are they looking for?
The stock market keeps taking a hammer to the conventional wisdom about retirement investing.
BOSTON (AP) -- A college hockey doubleheader will follow the NHL's winter classic at Fenway Park.
Philip Markoff is arraigned with his family and his alleged victim's mother in the courtroom
UNION, N.J. -- Drederick Irving, the 43-year-old with gray in his facial growth and low-cut Chuck Taylors on his feet, walks into the Y.W.H.A. basement gym and slips off his sneakers. Nine players -- including his son, Kyrie -- from the New Jersey Roadrunners AAU program wait idly for their tenth man in order to start a pick-up game. He pulls on a pair of size-12 sneakers that his son was given at a recent camp. "Old school time," the father says as he stretches on a recent Sunday. "The kids think I'm just Kyrie's dad."
The father of Philip Markoff's bride-to-be says his daughter prays this is a mistake
Three games in, and already it's apparent that there's something different about Sean Avery's head. This goes beyond the new helmet he was hawking after scoring two goals in the Rangers' 7-2 drubbing of the Toronto Maple Leafs on Monday night.
You can tackle the laundry... and have time and energy to spare, too. Try these smart, helpful tips from real women and experts who tackled the ghastly scenarios you posed to us in a recent survey
Question: I'm 24 years old and feel like I've become a savings junkie. I've already maxed out my Roth 401(k) contribution for this year and now I'm thinking about opening up an IRA too. I have no debt, and I have about $13,000 in other savings as well. What do you think -- should I open the IRA? --Kyle, Boston, Mass.
After being laid off this summer, Amy Bauer began to contemplate a career switch (from investor relations to corporate social responsibility). But it had been more than a decade since the 37-year-old from the Baltimore area had even crafted a résumé. For assistance, she turned to a career coach.
When you attend an NHL training camp, you see a team's entire staff -- from the GM right through the scouts. They spend hour upon hour watching the very players they spent hours and hours watching before drafting and signing them. All of which begs the question: what are they looking for?
The stock market keeps taking a hammer to the conventional wisdom about retirement investing.
BOSTON (AP) -- A college hockey doubleheader will follow the NHL's winter classic at Fenway Park.
Philip Markoff is arraigned with his family and his alleged victim's mother in the courtroom
UNION, N.J. -- Drederick Irving, the 43-year-old with gray in his facial growth and low-cut Chuck Taylors on his feet, walks into the Y.W.H.A. basement gym and slips off his sneakers. Nine players -- including his son, Kyrie -- from the New Jersey Roadrunners AAU program wait idly for their tenth man in order to start a pick-up game. He pulls on a pair of size-12 sneakers that his son was given at a recent camp. "Old school time," the father says as he stretches on a recent Sunday. "The kids think I'm just Kyrie's dad."
The father of Philip Markoff's bride-to-be says his daughter prays this is a mistake
His fiancée tells PEOPLE, "Somebody else did [the crimes] and needs to be penalized"
Philip Markoff was arrested after an exhaustive manhunt along the East Coast
At the height of his popularity in July 1920, Charles Ponzi arrived at his Boston office to a terrible surprise: A copycat business had set up shop down the hall, siphoning off his customers by offering the same eye-popping returns that had made Ponzi the most talked-about man in America.
In a year when stocks have sunk more than 40% and even supposedly safe bond funds are down, all you probably want is a little peace of mind -- or an investment that won't sink with the rest of your portfolio.
Tom Perls, an aging expert at Boston University, explains why women live five to 10 years longer than men
A new fossil discovery provides evidence that the Antarctic continent was once much warmer than today and may have been able to sustain life.
Viewpoint: Once upon a time, religious art and literature belonged to only one Author. Nowadays, however, ego (or royalties) may trump piety
Conventional wisdom has it that professional fighting is simply a way out, a rough sport where society's poor excel and few others even dare attempt. Just look at the all the rags-to-riches stories associated with boxing.
In a break with long-standing dogma, a new survey finds that even Evangelicals may be more tolerant of other religious beliefs than previously assumed
"Attracted by your gravity, your body's so compact / Pulling me inward, prepare for close contact," Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher sings in his song about a deep-space object known as a black hole.
Secretly, I'm congratulating myself.
The past 25 years: Flash back to the early 1980s. As bad as the economy was then, Americans could fall back on one comforting thought: We were still the world's sole economic superpower. Sure, later in the decade many feared Japan might overtake us. But we were still the world's largest exporter back then, and we accounted for a third of total global economic output.
Sweaty palms, jagged nerves, choking insecurity: LEVEL ORANGE.
Dear FSB: I am a newly appointed VP of Sales at a sporting goods manufacturer. While I've held various management roles in sales for more than 10 years, I am new to this company. Can you recommend any advanced executive training seminars that may help me in my new endeavor?
Fake-news program "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" is taking a page from serious news organizations this week with on-the-scene reports from the war zone in Iraq.
Manhattan's tower of steam is just one more dramatic example of the cost of letting urban infrastructure deteriorate
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Newborns face little risk of birth defects from antidepressants taken by many women early in pregnancy, say the reassuring findings of the two biggest studies of this controversial link
HOW LONG WILL YOU LIVE? What will you eat during retirement? Are your adult children secretly planning to move back home? If you're stumped, you get the idea of how complicated and fraught with uncertainty saving for retirement can be. Financial planners often set savings targets based on replacing 70% or more of pre-retirement income. Yet recently a cadre of economists have challenged that approach, suggesting it often results in wildly misguided targets. Foremost among those fighting the orthodoxy is Laurence J. Kotlikoff of Boston University. In a 2006 paper, Kotlikoff found that online savings and insurance calculators from the likes of Fidelity and TIAA-CREF can tell people to save five times too much. (Kotlikoff admits he is not an impartial observer, having developed his own planning software called ESPlanner.) On the other hand, Dartmouth economist Jonathan Skinner—a former student of Kotlikoff's—used ESPlanner for a forthcoming paper and concluded that
How long will you live? What will you eat during retirement? Are your adult children secretly planning to move back home?
The country's personal savings rate is negative, yet economist Laurence Kotlikoff wants to protect Americans from oversaving. Huh?
When word of a whites-only scholarship at Boston University hit the media last fall--drawing coverage from bloggers and biggies like ABC alike--Daniel Kovach smelled opportunity. His goal: to boost...
One minute to go. A booming voice in Mellon Arena announces this, and the delirious crowd roars. Really, can a March night get any better? The fans arrived buzzing with the news that their beloved Penguins had been saved when a last-minute deal for a new arena locked the NHL franchise into Pittsburgh for the next 30 years. Then Penguins great, team co-owner and now savior Mario Lemieux walked onto the ice and declared how proud he was that the Pens "will remain right here in Pittsburgh where they belong!" And then the game: swift and furious, score after score, months of tension dissolving in the din. Now the inspired team and its dazzling star, Sidney Crosby, hold a 4-3 lead over the Eastern Conference-leading Buffalo Sabres; now the old building shakes with civic love and joy and the adrenaline rush that comes from fans knowing they'll be able to say, decades on, that they were there for that historic scene. A banner declares, it's a great day for hockey!
Last week, CNNMoney.com published "Top 50 Business Schools for Getting Hired."
Authorities have arrested two men in connection with electronic light boards depicting a middle-finger-waving moon man that triggered repeated bomb scares around Boston on Wednesday and prompted the closure of bridges and a stretch of the Charles River.
The RedOwl is a robotic head that looks more like a PowerPoint projector than a sharpshooter's worst enemy. But don't let its Circuit City appearance fool you.
Any journalist will tell you one of the toughest parts of the job is having to interview someone who has lost a loved one. There's simply no easy way to ask questions about coping with the loss.
Scientists have discovered a huge crater in the Saharan desert, the largest one ever found there.
Not long ago a wedding was a modest affair: a little lace and a bit of the bubbly were all it took to launch a couple on the sea of matrimony.
Not long ago a wedding was a modest affair: a little lace and a bit of the bubbly were all it took to launch a couple on the sea of matrimony. These days it calls for much more pomp and ceremony. H...
Ever since September 2003—when New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer exposed chronic corruption in the mutual fund business—legislators, regulators and the media have been spewing out plans...
Warning: Being U.S. president may be harmful to your health.
Ever since September 2003 -- when New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer exposed chronic corruption in the mutual fund business -- legislators, regulators and the media have been spewing out plans to fix the way that funds are run.
It was time to hit life's little red "reset" button.
High inflation is a distant memory. So distant, in fact, that people forget that inflation can occasionally--and despite the best efforts of the FED--take quantum jumps. In 1978, for example, infla...
It takes a lot to rattle my Aunt Betty, who grew up during the Depression on a frosty farm in upstate New York with no electricity, running water or central heating. But when she called me a few we...
It takes a lot to rattle my Aunt Betty, who grew up during the Depression on a frosty farm in upstate New York with no electricity, running water or central heating.
Liesel Pritzker, 18, is suing for her share of the family fortune, and insurance titan Peter B. Lewis is using a $12 million gift as leverage to get the Guggenheim Museum's director to be more fisc...
Chapter 11 Hardship Pay
Toastmasters, beware. There's new hope for business folk plagued by glossophobia (fear of public speaking). Eleven U.S. clinics--and four internationally--now offer virtual-reality therapy, thanks ...
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Ever wake up in the wee hours with your mind churning along the following lines: Your kids are now how old? Boy, college isn't that far off. Assuming an annual inflation rate of 3% or 4%, within te...
Americans don't like the budget deficit. Year in and year out they list it as a major worry (82% in a recent Gallup poll said reducing the deficit should be one of Congress's top priorities). It's ...
Chances are, you've never heard of Summit Technology in Waltham, Massachusetts. But if you are one of the 60 million or so nearsighted Americans who wear glasses or contact lenses and would prefer ...
If you think you can cut your child's college bills only by being needy enough to qualify for financial aid, you're in for a pleasant surprise. There are many other means of slashing thousands of d...
People just won't shut up. Lee Sproull, a Boston University sociologist who is co-author of Connections, a book about behavior in networks, says: "People are always surprised to discover that if yo...
Let sleeping dogs lie. That about sums up Washington's prevailing attitude toward Social Security and Medicare. But howling will eventually be heard, because both programs promise current and futur...
My mother would never spend her money on herself. She regularly passed out gigantic birthday checks to my sister and me but worried over grocery prices and drove to a distant supermarket just to ge...
If Beth Dater had stayed in theater, directing would have been her goal. But in 1968, when she got a fine arts degree from Boston University, women directors were even rarer than women money manage...
AFTER A DECADE of adopting schools, lobbying legislators, consulting on curriculums, wrangling with teachers' unions, and struggling to understand a culture practically devoid of secretaries, telep...
Here's a clear case of less is more: If your child completes a bachelor's degree in three years instead of four, you and your Einstein can save far more than one year's tuition. That's because your...
Here's a clear case of less is more: If your child completes a bachelor's degree in three years instead of four, you and your Einstein can save far more than one year's tuition. That's because your...
So you think economics is mainly about forecasting GDP, the core inflation rate, or next quarter's unemployment? Then pick up David Warsh's Economic Principals: Masters and Mavericks of Modern Econ...
Your MONEY Guide: Best College Buys, 1993 edition, erroneously reported that Boston University provides only $290 in average gift aid per student. The accurate figure is approximately $4,200. Only ...
If you know in your bones that America's spendthrift fiscal policy is wrong, wrong, wrong, yet feel bewildered by a decade of contradictory and abstruse blather about the budget deficit, check out ...
''Take a letter to the Wall Street Journal,'' the senior editor on Keeping Up's economics desk suddenly bellowed the other morning. But just as suddenly, he reversed course. ''Wait,'' he said softl...
BUY A BURGER and catch a disturbing glimpse of America's future. When they ring up your order, those bustling teenagers behind most fast-food restaurant counters are pressing pictures of hamburgers...
Not long ago the game of bocce brought to mind images of elderly men smoking Tuscano cigars. It was about as glamorous as, say, shuffleboard. Now a younger set of devotees swear that bocce (pronoun...
First of all, we doubt that House Speaker Jim Wright spent more than 25 minutes working on Reflections of a Public Man (Madison Publishing Co., $5.95), an oeuvre of 117 pages expected to soon becom...
G&K Services Inc. Paying attention to little things like missing buttons and torn sleeves has helped G&K Services win customers in the mundane business of renting uniforms. The Minneapolis company ...
It's hardly a new idea. Shakespeare's characters are constantly put to crashing around in the forest, sorting out identities, gaining insights. In times of crisis North American Indians would retre...
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