With thousands of stores closing in the economic downturn, the increase in empty space at the nation's shopping malls is leaving a hole in the hearts of once-vibrant communities.
With less than 30 days until the election, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are stepping up their negative ads as they try to win over the narrowing margin of undecided voters.
College students have volunteered at food pantries for years. But as buying each meal gets pricier, a growing number are finding themselves on the other side of the counter
When it was time for Sabiha Ansari to get married, her parents flew her to India. She met her husband-to-be for less than 20 minutes, with family, then was asked whether she liked him.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Thursday's first-round action.
Four people said to have acted on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front have been indicted on a charge of setting fire to an agriculture research building on the Michigan State University campus more than eight years ago, authorities announced Tuesday.
For the past few weeks, we've been hearing about what a wide-open bubble picture we were going to have this year. Well, that picture got a little bit smaller this week, with two teams with at-large profiles from mid-major conferences -- Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference and South Alabama in the Sun Belt -- lost in their conference tournaments. The bubble picture got a little bit smaller, and it will continue to shrink as the week goes on.
Sports Illustrated came out with five regional rivalry covers for the college basketball preview back in November; in retrospect, we probably would have been fine printing just one: Memphis-Tennessee. In 2007-08, no regular-season game has mattered -- or will matter -- as much as the one that will take place on Saturday night at FedEx Forum.
More than a third of 18- to 40-year-olds in the United States have a tattoo, a Pew Research Center survey found last year. CNN.com asked readers to submit photos of their tattoos and tell us the stories behind them.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- It's easy to understand why Notre Dame is 0-3 for the second time in school history. The Fighting Irish are last in the nation in rushing offense and total offense, are among the worst teams at stopping the run and have nearly twice as many punts as they do points.
With thousands of stores closing in the economic downturn, the increase in empty space at the nation's shopping malls is leaving a hole in the hearts of once-vibrant communities.
With less than 30 days until the election, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain are stepping up their negative ads as they try to win over the narrowing margin of undecided voters.
College students have volunteered at food pantries for years. But as buying each meal gets pricier, a growing number are finding themselves on the other side of the counter
When it was time for Sabiha Ansari to get married, her parents flew her to India. She met her husband-to-be for less than 20 minutes, with family, then was asked whether she liked him.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Thursday's first-round action.
Four people said to have acted on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front have been indicted on a charge of setting fire to an agriculture research building on the Michigan State University campus more than eight years ago, authorities announced Tuesday.
For the past few weeks, we've been hearing about what a wide-open bubble picture we were going to have this year. Well, that picture got a little bit smaller this week, with two teams with at-large profiles from mid-major conferences -- Gonzaga in the West Coast Conference and South Alabama in the Sun Belt -- lost in their conference tournaments. The bubble picture got a little bit smaller, and it will continue to shrink as the week goes on.
Sports Illustrated came out with five regional rivalry covers for the college basketball preview back in November; in retrospect, we probably would have been fine printing just one: Memphis-Tennessee. In 2007-08, no regular-season game has mattered -- or will matter -- as much as the one that will take place on Saturday night at FedEx Forum.
More than a third of 18- to 40-year-olds in the United States have a tattoo, a Pew Research Center survey found last year. CNN.com asked readers to submit photos of their tattoos and tell us the stories behind them.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- It's easy to understand why Notre Dame is 0-3 for the second time in school history. The Fighting Irish are last in the nation in rushing offense and total offense, are among the worst teams at stopping the run and have nearly twice as many punts as they do points.
Mark Hollis will succeed Ron Mason as Michigan State University athletic director.
EAST LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- Mark Hollis made his mark with innovative promotions and Wednesday received the promotion of a lifetime, becoming Michigan State University's athletic director-designate.
If prospective buyers looked at your house today, what would they see outside? A giant evergreen that looks as if it might swallow the station wagon, perhaps, scraggly old foundation plants or maybe a kitchen-table view of the neighbors' kids' trampoline?
Affirmative action was the topic of debate leading up to the midterm elections as students at Michigan State University in East Lansing have been rallying for and against the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative.
In a heated campus event leading up to midterm elections, about 100 students carried signs and chanted slogans at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor to protest a game called "Catch an Illegal Immigrant."
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - The job market for college seniors is the best it's been in five years. But it's better at some companies than others.
Officials in some states are considering caps to control increased electric rates, according to a published report.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Most of us work hard for a living. And if we're lucky, we're well compensated for the effort.
As more American manufacturing jobs are lost to plants overseas, one form of subcontracting may actually help keep U.S. manufacturers more competitive in the global marketplace.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The hiring market for new graduates this spring won't resemble the frozen tundra of the past few years.
Posted: 2:15 a.m. ET From Sonia Moghe, Texas A&M University
With less than three weeks before the 2004 presidential election, many Michigan State University students say they are putting their focus on the presidential candidates, not their running mates.
At a time when many Michigan students are struggling to find one decent-paying summer job, Emily Ketterer recently quit two.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - The newest crop of college grads will have more job opportunities than last year's graduating class, and in a few cases, slightly higher salaries.
The atmosphere on Michigan State University's campus is more subdued now that the dust has settled on the Democrats' race for a presidental candidate.
Call it the Murphy's Law of Economics: If you want to produce less of something--smoking, say, or coal mining--tax it. For a glimpse of the downside of this quick and easy way to influence economic...
Amazing fact: Even as you read this--even as each new stanza of that bizarre epic, the Clintoniad, is written--there are politicians in Washington actually trying to change, you know, laws. It's tr...
SO, HOTSHOT, where is your career going? You dodged the Big Layoff, but you're toiling harder than ever doing the work of those who were cut. Haven't had a raise in a while either. A promotion? For...
Finally, some good news for college grads looking for jobs. After four years of disastrous declines, campus recruiting is on the rise. The Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State...
Back in the stressful Sixties, ''Tell it like it is!'' was the banner and byword of rebellious youth. Now those kids have grown up. They live in the White House. They dominate the political establi...
WORD FIND There are 11 careers listed below. Can you spot all of them in the word find? After you've circled the careers, there will be some letters left. Cross out all the leftover Xs, Ys and Zs. ...
In spite of an infusion of younger chief execs -- the youngest is Michael Dell, 27, founder of Dell Computer -- the average age of a FORTUNE Industrial 500 CEO is 57 years, 4 months, basically unch...
The big-business job shrinkage continues unabated. IBM is still trying to get rid of some 40,000 employees. GM expects to cut 74,000 at latest count. Just about all defense companies have been cutt...
With the election of Bill Clinton, 46, and Al Gore, 44, one can almost feel the great Schlesingerian wheel of generational change in American politics begin to turn. You remember the historian's th...
Your May article, ''Student Loan Mess,'' was informative. Since I was the subject of it, however, I want to clarify several points that did not appear in the article. The article mentioned that I r...
The transition from academe's ivory tower to the corporate rat race will be especially brutal this spring when college students enter a job market decimated by layoffs. As many as 25% of the '92 co...
The sluggish U.S. economy means bad news for the class of 1990. Some of the biggest hirers of college grads, including General Motors and IBM, didn't interview job seekers at all on campuses this s...
The 1990 college graduate faces one of the tightest job markets in almost a decade. The number of entry-level positions is expected to decline by 13.3%, the steepest drop since recession-plagued 19...
More than 150,000 striking miners paralyzed the coal industry in Siberia and parts of the Ukraine. They wanted better wages and working conditions and more say in running the pits. Their boss, the ...
Paying for the Pentagon, which gets more than 40% of the money Congress spends, is a money-losing proposition for most Americans. But not all. When the taxes paid by the average family are compared...
JOHN D. BARR, 41 ASHLAND OIL Barr became CEO of Ashland's Valvoline Oil subsidiary in October and now heads the third-largest player (after Quaker State and Pennzoil) in the tough $2 billion U.S. m...
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