Scientists in the United States are developing a "synthetic tree" capable of collecting carbon around 1,000 times faster than the real thing.
Substance abuse, addiction and its consequences cost U.S. governmental bodies nearly $500 billion in 2005 with only a fraction of state and federal dollars spent on prevention and treatment, according to a report released Thursday.
How bad is it if you bribe your child with treats or let him watch TV all day? Here, experts assess your actions so in four scenarios you can make the right choice.
President Obama's $7 billion-plus plan to bring broadband to rural America could create up to 260,000 new jobs, according to researchers. But some industry executives worry it will take too long to put that money to work.
Having lived in California, the sound of the ocean is one that is synonymous with calm, peace and of course, vacation.
Stocks retreated Friday, building on the previous day's declines, after the Dow closed at its lowest point in more than six years.
27 January 2009 Keeping a record of your physical activity routine will inspires you to do more. The American Academy of Family Physicians suggests making notes detailing your activity is a great way to motivate yourself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19 January 2009 Drinking too much coffee can cause hallucinations. Medical journal Personality and Individual Differences reported that people who consume seven to eight cups of coffee per day are three times more likely to see strange objects, hear voices or even see ghosts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It appears that after decades of fruitless negotiations with Beijing, the 15th Dalai Lama may have finally reached the end of his tether
Research into the mysterious green glow of a jellyfish earned three scientists this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry, the Nobel Foundation announced Wednesday.
Setting one species up to scare off or even kill another is nothing new.
Scientists in the United States are developing a "synthetic tree" capable of collecting carbon around 1,000 times faster than the real thing.
Substance abuse, addiction and its consequences cost U.S. governmental bodies nearly $500 billion in 2005 with only a fraction of state and federal dollars spent on prevention and treatment, according to a report released Thursday.
How bad is it if you bribe your child with treats or let him watch TV all day? Here, experts assess your actions so in four scenarios you can make the right choice.
President Obama's $7 billion-plus plan to bring broadband to rural America could create up to 260,000 new jobs, according to researchers. But some industry executives worry it will take too long to put that money to work.
Having lived in California, the sound of the ocean is one that is synonymous with calm, peace and of course, vacation.
Stocks retreated Friday, building on the previous day's declines, after the Dow closed at its lowest point in more than six years.
27 January 2009 Keeping a record of your physical activity routine will inspires you to do more. The American Academy of Family Physicians suggests making notes detailing your activity is a great way to motivate yourself. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 19 January 2009 Drinking too much coffee can cause hallucinations. Medical journal Personality and Individual Differences reported that people who consume seven to eight cups of coffee per day are three times more likely to see strange objects, hear voices or even see ghosts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It appears that after decades of fruitless negotiations with Beijing, the 15th Dalai Lama may have finally reached the end of his tether
Research into the mysterious green glow of a jellyfish earned three scientists this year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry, the Nobel Foundation announced Wednesday.
Setting one species up to scare off or even kill another is nothing new.
After days of trading insults, the candidates make two joint appearances. Will the suspension of hostilities last?
More than three-quarters of Web sites that offer highly addictive medications do not require a prescription, according to a study released Wednesday
Ask doctors if their male patients ignore big and obvious health symptoms, and they'll respond with laughter -- huge peals and guffaws.
Three prizes worth $1 million apiece were awarded Wednesday to seven scientists for their discoveries in neuroscience, astrophysics and the study of vanishingly small structures
For the sake of argument, imagine a world without conflict. That's the full-time job for members of a relatively new field called peace psychology who focus on problems like the genocide in Darfur, hatred in the Middle East, gang warfare in our cities, and rape everywhere.
Despite plans to slash carbon dioxide (C02) emissions, the world still faces a very basic, and very big, problem.
Millions of baby boomers are about to enter a health care system for seniors that not only isn't ready for them, but may even discourage them from getting quality care
I'm worried about my wife. Not that she really has any problems. She's educated, professionally savvy and, thank goodness, perfectly healthy. In fact, according to the Social Security Administration, she can expect to live to 2050. Trouble is, I'm scheduled to kick it in 2047. And that's if we're both average. She's in better shape than I am, so she could be on her own for a lot longer.
Columbia University said Thursday it has sanctioned for plagiarism the African-American professor on whose office door a noose was found last fall.
A new study suggests that excessive daytime drowsiness may foretell a risk for stroke and other vascular disorders
With an electrical engineering degree from Columbia University, Nicholas Aretakis always felt at home in the semiconductor business, where he spent 22 years. In the '90s, as head of sales for ESS Technology, one of the first companies to introduce an audio chip for PC motherboards, he helped boost revenues from $30 million to more than $300 million in three years. Then he led lucrative IPOs at two other semiconductor companies.
Michelle Lehmann wakes up at 4 a.m. Her husband, Jim, gets their eight children out of bed as she picks out their outfits, makes breakfast and packs lunches. She fixes the younger children's hair while her husband ties their shoes. After a quick check of school bags, everyone is out the door at 8.
New York police detectives are reviewing surveillance video from Columbia University in hopes of identifying the person or persons who hung a noose on a professor's office door earlier in the week.
A rally Wednesday afternoon at Columbia University was held to protest the discovery of a noose on the office door of an African-American professor.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Wednesday his overall experience at Columbia University was a good one, even though he was introduced as a "petty and cruel dictator."
Columbia University president Lee Bollinger took Iran's president to task Monday, bluntly criticizing his record and saying he exhibits "all the signs of a petty and cruel dictator."
Both Republican and Democratic presidential candidates Monday questioned Columbia University's decision to invite Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to speak at its New York campus.
He was berated by many in the hall, but the Iranian leader's Columbia appearance was aimed at the audience back home
Feeling ravenous can undermine a sensible diet in at least two ways. First, it can make you eat when you don't need any food --sometimes the feeling is the product of a bored or worried mind rather than an actual indication of hunger. Second, it's real enough to send you into an eating frenzy at your next meal.
The term "urban farming" may conjure up a community garden where locals grow a few heads of lettuce. But some academics envision something quite different for the increasingly hungry world of the 21st century: a vertical farm that will do for agriculture what the skyscraper did for office space.
School officials around the country are asking what to do following a Supreme Court decision rejecting racial integration plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky.
Columbia University fired its financial aid director Tuesday after finding that he had promoted a student loan company in which he had an ownership stake, the university said.
On a Friday afternoon in March 2000, University of Pennsylvania freshman Alison Malmon came in from studying outdoors with friends, and her world crashed around her.
Being Asian and American is often a complex balancing act.
Do I offend? I must. Why else would immigration restrictionists be trying to pull the plug on commentaries like this one?
Dear Annie: After almost 30 years working in finance and administration (for three big companies and one startup), I'd like to make a radical career change. During my entire adult life so far, I've been active with a couple of volunteer organizations, and on the board of one of them, and I'm wondering how practical it might be to think about working full time for a nonprofit.
At any internship or new job, your key move is probably to work longer hours than anyone. I suppose this is as true in law and medicine as it is in journalism, but it is an unvarying rule. When I am in doubt about what to do, I say: just be there, stay there, do something, make yourself useful! And forget the ease of the 9-to-5 job.
Considering the mess that Social Security and Medicare are in, the federal government is probably the last place you'd look for insights about retirement planning.
Home sales are slowing. Condo prices are slipping. Sellers can't get their asking prices.
On March 16, three years to the day after the U.S. invaded Iraq, U.S. aircraft prepare for Operation Swarmer, the largest air offensive since the initial assault. The cost of the war, of course, ha...
Three years after U.S. forces invaded Iraq and toppled the regime of Saddam Hussein, the cost--in both lives and dollars--continues to mount.
Coffee-heart attack link clarified
Are home values in America's biggest cities out of whack with the rest of the country? Chris Mayer, a finance and economics professor who heads the Milstein Center for Real Estate at Columbia Unive...
Are home values in America's biggest cities out of whack with the rest of the country?
The first hint for Ellen and Rick Klinenberg that their lives would not be as they had planned came in March 2001 when a pediatrician raised some questions about the development of their 18-month-old son, David.
Scientists are gaining insight about December's devastating earthquake and tsunami from the actual sounds of the magnitude 9.3 quake in the Indian Ocean.
The greengroceries that dot New York City, with their huge variety of offerings, are among my favorite places. You can find hundreds of fresh fruits and vegetables and almost every kind of flower g...
Do you put off doing your taxes even though Uncle Sam owes you a nice, fat refund? If so, you're hardly alone. About 10% of us leave this patriotic chore until the last possible day. Some end up jo...
You may remember the old Monty Python skit in which John Cleese, as a coldhearted banker, attempts to figure out the angle when a hapless charity worker asks him to donate a pound to an orphans fun...
The daughters of some leading politicians -- including some Democratic presidential hopefuls -- may not agree on who belongs in the White House, but they agree that not enough young women are engaged in the political process.
They call it "the invisible illness," and for good reason: Depression affects nearly one in 10 U.S. adults each year, but experts say the disease is treatable in most cases.
Columbia University freshman and Hyatt heiress Liesel Pritzker, 18, has a busy spring ahead. She's suing her dad, Robert, and other family members for allegedly siphoning more than $1 billion from ...
Want to bet when the first bombs will fall on Baghdad? A handful of websites--Tradesports.com, Iraq Attack Pool (www.thecarrot.com/iraqattack)--let gamblers wager on political events, including whe...
The thought of ringing up tens of thousands of frequent-flier miles has lured many a parent and student into charging college tuition payments. Now some schools, faced with tighter budgets, are bal...
If you think that economic theories don't have much to do with the real-life challenges of running a small business, well, we forgive you. But Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning Columbia Univer...
If Dr. Evil were an investment banker, he'd surely be out hawking financing instruments known as death-spiral convertibles. These are bonds or preferred shares with terms so onerous that only compa...
You may detect echoes of our current market woes in David Liss' A Conspiracy of Paper, a detective thriller set in the early 18th century as the notorious South Sea Bubble was about to burst. Named...
You've Seen the numbers: Women-owned businesses have been the fasting-growing segment in the small business boom for a decade. But being a woman and an entrepreneur still is no easy feat--and that'...
One of the toughest things in business journalism is taking potentially dull finance topics and turning them into compelling and entertaining stories. Anyone can write about such things as--forgive...
When Manhattan day trader Jim Walker put in a buy order this spring on E*Trade, the stock was at about 48. Forty minutes later the confirmation came back: He'd just paid 56. "You can never directly...
You hear professional investors (including several MONEY 100 fund managers) say it all the time: "We try to buy companies selling for less than their intrinsic value." Sounds good. But what is intr...
If you want to understand what investing would be like without mutual funds, you need only look back to 1924. In those days, if you were a small investor who wanted your money run by a professional...
When it comes to policing online stock bulletin boards, the SEC talks pretty tough. Its enforcement Website lists cases brought against stock pumpers big and small. An agency spokesman says that it...
When Yael Alkalay, 30, graduated from business school at Columbia University, she decided to launch her own candle and toiletries business. But rather than rely on the typical entrepreneur's assets...
In mid-June a group of federal judges are meeting to consider a proposal that would make it tougher to bring class-action securities fraud or price-fixing lawsuits charging that many people have su...
Got a bad boss? Just imagine working for Henry Ford. When he wanted to fire a loyal officer, Ford is said to have had every stick of furniture moved out of his office; sometimes he ordered it all c...
Need some help in deciding which of the nation's thousands of colleges would be best for your child? You've put yourself in good hands. The 21-page guide that begins at left provides basic informat...
Let's face it: The peds seem peppier in the latest aerodynamic, mondo- cushioned, custom-pumped and, yes, priciest running shoes. So you drop the big bucks for Nike's top-of-the-line Air Max ($130)...
You've come to the right place to size up schools. On the following 20 pages, we provide basic statistics for 1,003 public and private four-year colleges and universities that welcome students with...
If it is truly more blessed to give than to receive, John Kluge, 78, billionaire chairman of Metromedia, must be feeling positively saintly. He recently bestowed $60 million on Columbia University,...
The tables on the following pages deliver basic information you need to size up 1,000 public and private four-year colleges and universities that welcome students without regard to their religious ...
If you haven't already, sit down before you read this column. When chief of reporters Holly Wheelwright enrolled at Sarah Lawrence 31 years ago, tuition, room and board cost her parents $2,800 a ye...
Bill Klem, immortal umpire, is famous for saying, ''I call 'em as I see 'em.'' The present fan never could figure out what was so memorable about this line, but at least he knew Bill's basic princi...
Believe it or not, the recession the economists didn't call is history. So says Geoffrey H. Moore, and no one speaks with more authority about the economy's turning points. Moore, 77, is director o...
The five-year-old drive to extend global trading rules to new areas, such as services and agriculture, is in trouble. Seeking arresting arguments, GATT Director General Arthur Dunkel in May hired C...
Executives aren't cutting classes even though times are tight. Over 15,000 of them will be attending a variety of business-related programs at North American colleges in 1991, 10% more than last ye...
Herewith, our fifth not quite annual list of the year's ten most depressing happenings unless you are a lefty. Contributing to this highly subjective and impressionistic feature's being not quite a...
As decades go, this one was no day at the beach. While the economy's expansion set a new peacetime record, companies on the 500 strained harder than ever just to hold their ground. Measured in cons...
Looking to get back into stocks? Then consider the no-load funds in the table above. Although they are all fairly new -- less than three years old, except for Clipper -- the outfits that manage the...
So slow the growth of what is excellent . . . William Cowper, 1731-1800
While a whole is often worth more than the sum of its parts, in the case of a stock, Shearson Lehman Hutton is hoping the opposite may be true. In December the firm introduced the ''unbundled stock...
Raise the dividend and batten down the boardroom! Alan ''Ace'' Greenberg, CEO of Bear Stearns; Sam Heyman, CEO of GAF Corp.; Carl Icahn; and T. Boone Pickens are all swimming together. But wait a m...
The present writer had a birthday recently and as a result has been researching the number 63. It turns out to be an interesting number, although it isn't getting the raves we had hoped for. First ...
THE CREDIT MARKETS have fairly fibrillated so far this year over the prospects for interest rates -- and particularly about the future course of Federal Reserve policy. Investors have reacted to ea...
''We say here that everybody wants to be a chicken's head, not a bull's toenail.'' -CHIEN-SHIEN WANG, 46, Taiwan's vice minister for economic affairs, on why there are so many small businesses in h...
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