As Congress debates the size and scope of defense budgets in a looming age of austerity, one senator is seeking to resolve a much older question about the president's ability to exercise military power without the consent of the House and Senate.
Your odds of getting into some of the nation's most prestigious colleges are shrinking.
The new coach of Penn State's embattled football program acknowledged criticism from alumni over his hiring, vowing to work to earn their trust and saluting the team's iconic former head coach Joe Paterno.
In 1987, when Penn State was the reigning national champion, Matt Paknis was a graduate assistant coach working with Penn State's offensive linemen.
Legislators finally approved an eleventh-hour plan to raise the debt ceiling on Tuesday, but one part of the debate was left out of the final draft -- tax reform.
The Harry Potter star expects to spend a year in the U.K., then return to Brown University
So you want a job at a top investment bank like Goldman Sachs, or consultancy like McKinsey, or law firm like Sullivan & Cromwell. In our meritocratic society, where CEOs can begin in the mailroom and Siliconillionaires have dropped out of college, the trick is to work hard and produce excellence, right? Not so. You're better off just attending Harvard and playing lacrosse, according to a recent curious study.
Emory University's Board of Trustees acknowledges for the first time the school's connection to slavery. WSB reports.
Last March, a crowd of nearly 100 gathered in Williamsburg, Virginia, for an all-day symposium about slavery and reconciliation. The event, put on by the College of William & Mary, wasn't a broad, rhetorical discussion of the past.
Amenah Ibrahim vividly remembers her first introduction to thermodynamics. It was her freshman year at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and she sat in a large auditorium filled with students aspiring to degrees in chemical engineering.
Landing the job of your dreams is possible -- if you're willing to make some sacrifices.
The Harry Potter star reportedly wants to pursue courses not offered at the school
"Poor girl," Watson says of the pressures on the princess-to-be
Universities in the United States rarely expel students for sexual assault, according to an investigation by the federal government. And in the 42 years since it began admitting women, Yale University has not been an exception.
The Brown University sophomore says being a full-time student and actress became "impossible"
Emma Watson is trading in Brown University for Hogwarts -- for now, anyway.
Elizabeth Edwards died Tuesday, after doctors had told her further cancer treatment would be "unproductive." She was at home, surrounded by people who loved her.
Leaders of the different branches of the U.S. armed forces gave sharply divergent answers to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday when asked whether the military's controversial "don't ask, don't tell" policy should be repealed, and what the consequences of a repeal might be.
The Brown University sophomore is enjoying the simple life of anonymity and carbs at college
"I had no idea. I felt sick, very emotional," says Harry Potter's Hermione
When Annie Brown's daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk for cystic fibrosis.
Newborns in the U.S. are routinely screened for disease, and their DNA is stored indefinitely, and often without consent.
OK Go frontman Damian Kulash is a rock star, a music video auteur, and a YouTube sensation--and, now that his band has split with British music giant EMI, a businessman. OK Go, whose treadmill dance video has been viewed more than 50 million times, announced in March that it was leaving EMI's Capitol Records and launching its own label, Paracadute. While Kulash, 34, doesn't harbor Damon Dash-level ambitions (Paracadute employs a handful of full-time employees and hasn't signed any other acts), he does have a bold take on the future of the music industry.
The morning after St. Patrick's Day, the D4 Irish Pub & Café in Chicago, Illinois, gets flooded with requests for Bloody Marys, a concoction of tomato juice, celery, vodka and hot sauce.
As holiday revelers lift their glasses at office parties and New Year's bashes, they may want to keep one rule of thumb in mind: the darker the liquor, the bigger the hangover.
People who take antidepressants such as Paxil often say they feel less stressed and more outgoing, lively, and confident. Now a new study suggests it's not just because they're less depressed.
The actress was the target of pranksters when she visited the campus of a rival college
An Indian spacecraft has spotted basic water elements in moon dust. They looked where no one had looked before.
There is more water on the moon in more locations than originally thought, a discovery that may bolster NASA's long-held goal of setting up an outpost there, a researcher said Thursday.
The Harry Potter star says she's already met incredible people at Brown
Emma Watson may have wanted to just blend in when she started her freshman year recently at Brown University, but it seems not everyone has the same idea.
Few of us make money by losing sleep. But three grad students at Brown University in Providence built a company around sleep deprivation.
Question: I'm 49 and my wife is 50. We agree on most things, except how much of our investment portfolio we should keep in cash. She is completely risk-averse and focuses only on the "spanking" we took in the market last year. I feel that by letting so much money sit in CDs earning 1% to 2% we're missing out on better opportunities. Currently, we've got about $500,000 in cash as part of an otherwise well diversified portfolio. Can you help me convince her to take half that money and buy into some dividend-paying blue chips? --Garry, Atlanta, Georgia
Look out Rhode Island, the Harry Potter star has worked her magic to get into Brown
Five million young adults are currently living with their parents, according to the Census Bureau - an astounding one in eight 25- to 34-year-olds. But it's no wonder: Unemployment for people in their early twenties now touches 14%, vs. the national average of 8.5%.
Those slick, intricate tests used by forensic investigators on shows like "CSI" look infallible, but that is the stuff of television. In the real world, forensic tests are much more ambiguous and rarely demonstrate a definite tie between an individual and a crime.
More than 3,000 educators nationwide, including six Brown University professors, have signed a statement supporting William Ayers -- the man Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain called a "washed-up terrorist" at the third presidential debate.
Key errors ended the US women's team's gold medal hopes. But injuries and a new scoring system also played a role
Don't even think about missing the women's gymnastics competition in Beijing. Bag the basketball, if you must. Torpedo the track and field. By all means, skip the swimming. But cancel all plans the night of the ladies' team final, Wed., Aug. 13, because the U.S. and China will be fighting World War III on four inches of the balance beam.
Michael and Sharon thought the photos from their wedding were lost forever.
It's a new frontier for psychiatric illness: Brain pacemakers that promise to act as antidepressants by changing how patients' nerve circuitry fires
A Brown University professor said Monday that he is donating his share of a prestigious Israeli mathematics prize to advance the education of Palestinian students
In 1989, Nancy Tiemann was 36 and living in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Tom. "We were both desperately in need of a getaway," says the one-time banking officer. When Tom suggested they join a boat trip to Belize chartered by a group of nudists, Nancy was horrified.
You can choose the design of your phone, your computer, and your car - so why not your condominium?
Money Magazine: Save on college costsupdated: Wed Sep 05 2007 06:25:00
You've just sent an enormous check to your kid's college - the least he could do is minimize the ongoing burn. Set him on a cost-conscious track, and you might have enough left in the bank to pay the next tuition bill.
AmieStreet, a digital music site that prices songs of new artists according to their popularity, said on Monday that Amazon.com Inc. is leading a first round of investment in the start-up.
In the battle against fat, the heroes achieve what most of us only long for -- lasting weight loss. They're so unusual, they've become the subjects of ongoing research by scientists trying to finger just what it is that makes them stand out from the rest of dieting humanity.
For most of us, the phrase "super x-ray vision" conjures a pair of spiral-print cardboard spectacles ordered from the back of a cereal box.
Masi Oka plays Hiro Nakamura, the geeky Japanese office worker who travels through time on NBC's breakout hit, "Heroes." But until he won that role last fall, Tokyo-born Oka, 32, was best known as a special-effects programming whiz for big-budget movies like "Pirates of the Caribbean" and "The Perfect Storm."
When French patient Isabelle Dinoire received a partial face transplant, she became the first person in the world to undergo such a groundbreaking procedure.
The era of the real-life bionic man may be a little bit closer after scientists in the U.S. announced they had successfully implanted a chip into the brain of a quadriplegic man enabling him to use a computer and operate a robotic arm.
Brain Chipsupdated: Fri Jun 02 2006 12:38:00
We react naturally to the signals our brains send out to our bodies. Science has long been able to listen into the signals the brain sends, but is just now learning to turn those signals into meaningful action. The result is restoring movement and speech to the disabled.
Scientists have long known that a major ingredient in comets is water ice, but they were unsure whether the ice was contained mainly inside or if it could be found on the surface as well.
A school district is undermining science education by raising false doubts about evolution and offering "intelligent design" as an alternative explanation for life's origins, a biologist testified at the start of a landmark trial.
FSB: Let's Be Frankupdated: Mon Nov 01 2004 00:01:00
"When I sell a brand for $2 billion," asks the impossibly gravelly voice at the other end of the line, "am I still small business?" Afraid so, Sidney Frank. Once you've shared steaks and cosmos wit...
A team of neuroscientists have successfully implanted a chip into the brain of a quadriplegic man, allowing him to control a computer.
Money Magazine: Providence, Rhode Islandupdated: Mon May 05 2003 11:44:00
Providence may be 366 years old, but it's not the kind of city that sits around resting on its laurels. And neither are the people who retire here.
We spend most of our time at this magazine helping you invest your savings wisely. But the growth of your wealth, along with that of Wall Street and Main Street, will also depend on investments we ...
Being still passionately committed to the efficient market hypothesis (EMH), your servant was naturally uncaptivated by the account of markets rendered in A Short History of Financial Euphoria, the...
Did you know that Apple Computer CEO John Sculley, 52, majored in architecture at Brown University (Class of 1961)? That may explain why he bought the 19th- century Maine farmhouse depicted in Andr...
Fortune: Shark Alertupdated: Mon May 23 1988 00:01:00
The most revealing part of Harvey Mackay's new pop management (just add cliches and stir) instabook, Swim With the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive, has got to be the endorsements: -- ''. . . zest,...
A lot of professors don't believe in Star Wars, said Jonathan Salzman, an antinuclear activist at Brown University, ''but they have no choice except to take government money. We think there should ...
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