An Internet search of "how to make chloroform" -- a key issue in the Casey Anthony murder trial - brings up more than 600 results from a variety of sources, some apparently serious, many sketchy and others totally irrelevant.
Question: I suspect that my parents, who are in their 60s and earn modest incomes, have minimal savings. How do my adult siblings and I broach the topic of retirement with them when they are hesitant to "trouble" their children with their financial concerns? Would a financial planner be of use to my parents this late in the game? -- Ann, Edison, New Jersey
Ask.com, long relegated to also-ran status in the search-engine war, is cutting 130 engineering jobs and outsourcing its search technology.
Called "The Runner" for training in the mine, Edison Peña jogs through Central Park
Ethan Zohn, Chilean miner Edison Peña, Robin Quivers and more will run the 26.2 mile race
"I'm going to give it my best shot," says Edison Peña of the race
To project elections, CNN and its election experts use scientific statistical procedures to make estimates of the final vote count in each race. CNN will broadcast a projected winner only after an extensive review of data from a number of sources.
More than 100 purveyors of adult entertainment waited hours for Edison's giant convention hall to fill last month, a slow attendance that reflected recessional challenges that nearly all industries have faced.
Six window-treatment manufacturers recalled a total of 5.5 million blinds and shades Wednesday after three children were strangled in attached cords.
Prohibition-style bars and speakeasies have been popping up all over, but these lounges go beyond the gimmicks in their near obsessive devotion to the art of old-time cocktails and decor.
Surprise! The economy isn't all rainbows, puppies, kittens and sunshine after all.
Today, I'll unleash my inner John Henry. Or better yet, Garry Kasparov. I'm going head-to-head against a machine, and, if history has taught us anything, I'm going to lose.
Nick Sciscione was standing in line at one of his favorite clothing stores when a cashier asked him if he would like to apply for a job.
Men complain that condoms often don't fit. A German entrepreneur has a better idea: spray them on. There's just one problem...
Here's a look at how some people are spending their lives after changing careers or retiring. "Life After Work" airs Thursdays on CNN between 8 and 9 p.m. ET.
Fortune: Road Warriorupdated: Mon Nov 27 2006 00:01:00
Eleventh-generation glassmaker Maximilian Riedel may have an antique pedigree, but he is a thoroughly modern man. Two years ago he created a sensation with his stemless “O” series glasses—a 21st-c...
It's all about the headlines this week, kids. A relatively mellow day like today and stocks may fare well ... of course it doesn't hurt that the LBO boys are at it again. Looks like HCA is getting bought out, by KKR, Bain, Merrill and the Frist family itself. KKR knows from deals this size, from when it was the barbarian at RJR's gate back in 1989.
Nicky Hilton is taking on the family business by lending her famous name to a South Beach hotel, according to a report Friday.
Fortune: The Indexupdated: Thu Apr 13 2006 13:00:00
Companies (bold type) and individuals in this issue are indexed to the first page of the article in which each is mentioned. A separate index of the FORTUNE 500 companies begins on page F-68.
CNNMoney: An experiment failedupdated: Mon Jan 23 2006 09:16:00
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - On paper, the formula seems pretty solid. Blend original, critically acclaimed games with the reliable franchises based on well-known film licenses. By all accounts, that should give a publisher a fair bit of stability.
Most of the time, media professionals wait for news to happen before reporting it. On election night, however, veteran journalists dispense with tradition and race to declare a winner before all the votes are counted, relying mainly on surveys of voters exiting the polls and partial tallies of ballots cast. The system worked pretty well until it blew up in 2000, when the networks called Florida for Al Gore, reversed themselves, and, well, you know the rest. So things will be different this time. Sure, the TV networks will be competing to declare America's next President. But restraint will prevail, the intense pressure to keep you from switching to a more exciting channel be damned.
"Improbable" is a good word to describe Morris Sutton--a 65-year-old man who founded videogame maker Majesco, based in Edison, N.J., in 1986 with his sons, Jesse and Joey. Morris, who was an invest...
It's been a busy few days for Vonage, the voice-over-Internet-protocol company. Last week, the Edison, N.J., outfit announced a big distribution deal with RadioShack that puts its service in approximately 4,000 of the chain's stores in 38 states.
Firefighters battled a massive fire Friday that broke out at an apartment complex in Edison, New Jersey, claiming at least one life.
Edison Schools founder and CEO Chris Whittle has always argued that the education business could be lucrative. He kept the faith even as his company--which runs 130 elementary, middle, and high sch...
The idea sprang fully formed from Chris Whittle's mind about a decade ago, and it was a stunner: transform public education in America with a chain of 1,000 or more for-profit, privately run gramma...
Goldman Sachs CEO Hank Paulson is not a touchy-feely guy. Even by Wall Street standards, he's fairly buttoned down. But the daily drumbeat of news about horrifying corporate behavior would get to a...
THE HEADLINES Cutting remarks from Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan
Money Magazine: Retire Where?updated: Sat Sep 01 2001 00:01:00
In July, 82-year-old Brit Beatrice Muller "retired" to the Queen Elizabeth 2, the grande dame of cruise ships, saying it didn't cost much more than a retirement home. Intrigued, we set up this comp...
I'll be wearing a bow tie," Chris Whittle had said as we were making plans to meet for a drink. That struck me as a tad disingenuous. With his trademark neckwear, floppy Hugh Grant haircut, and gla...
Where is Michael Porter when you need him? More than 20 years ago--back in the very, very old economy--Harvard Business School's most famous academician crystallized the notion of competitive advan...
Talk about leaving investors in the dark--literally. Embattled electric utilities PG&E and Edison International, which both traded near 52-week highs as recently as September, are now staging rolli...
One of the more painful lessons learned by investors over the past year has been that earnings do matter. Every sickening plunge in the indexes seems to be instructing people to focus on profits in...
"The new thing at Koster and Bial's last night was Edison's vitascope, exhibited for the first time.... When the hall was darkened last night a buzzing and roaring were heard in the turret, and an ...
Morgan: American Financier By Jean Strouse Random House, 796 pages
Two years ago Perot Systems, which cobbles together computer systems for large companies, recruited a team from bankrupt e-commerce forerunner Nets Inc. Now Perot Systems (which just went public) i...
It's got to be one of the weirdest alliances in recent Washington history: Phyllis Schlafly and a few other conservative activists united with Ross Perot, 27 Nobel prize winners, and an army of inv...
It's official: small investors did heed Kenny Rogers' advice from his hit song "The Gambler"--"You've got to know when to hold 'em"--when the Dow fell an unprecedented 554 points on the last Monday...
The best-performing utility stock over the past 12 months is California's Edison International, up 61%; the worst performing, Texas' Central & South West, is down 26%.
By this stage in your investing career, you have undoubtedly heard the pitch for those endearingly complex insurance-company-sponsored contraptions called tax-deferred annuities. The devices work s...
Before Stephen Covey had formed even one habit, a still greater motivator had penned a magnum opus. Think & Grow Rich, by Napoleon Hill, appeared in 1937 and has never since been out of print. With...
Fortune: PRODUCTS TO WATCHupdated: Mon Apr 19 1993 00:01:00
KID'S VIDEO Ask your younger kids if they'd like to learn something about music history or theory, and you'll probably hear a resounding ''NO.'' But sit them down at the computer with Rock and Bach...
No longer content to be the passive paymasters of America's ever more expensive private health care system, corporate executives are going on the attack. Their new remedy: managed-care networks. Un...
ONE YEAR into the Nineties and this is shaping up as the decade in which we came, we saw, and we ran for cover. The economy is wobbling, the Germanys are merging, and the entire world is being held...
Talk about going from bell bottoms to Brooks Brothers. John Bryson, 47, recently took over SCE Corp. and its subsidiary, Southern California Edison. That's the same Bryson who 20 years ago founded,...
In planning their nuptials, Mark O'Brien and Andrea Debo were guided by little more than generous instincts that led to big spending right from the start (see photos). Here is some levelheaded advi...
Who should take care of America's children? The answer of past centuries -- their parents -- no longer satisfies a number of people, and the issue has suddenly approached the top of the national ag...
Managerial courage. Managerial courage? ''It's an oxymoron,'' argues one academic expert on the executive arts, a self-contradiction like, say, military intelligence, or congressional restraint. We...
Is it time to buy platinum? The price has shot up, to a recent $445 per troy ounce on the spot market, following a strike by South African miners in January. The strikers were fired and replaced, b...
Fortune: E&B Marine Inc.updated: Mon May 26 1986 00:01:00
The largest U.S. retailer of boating supplies and accessories has been battling head winds. E&B Marine's revenues have surged 80% since 1983 to $56.4 million last year, but profits ebbed by a third...
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