Does your wife's closet look like a jewel box of shoes, while you wish your bank account could afford an actual box of jewels? Or maybe you're tired of your spouse snapping up the newest tech gadgets and instead want to spend the money on a vacation together.
Nearly half the nation's mortgage borrowers will soon owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, according to a new report.
Raising the quality of teaching and learning in American schools is a priority. It receives a great deal of attention in our national discourse and should receive more.
When Ryan Teeples and his wife, Lessley, first got married, they clashed over his meticulous accounting habits. She felt like he was scrutinizing her for everything she bought, and he, a self-identified "cheapskate," wanted to know exactly where money was being spent, he said.
As consumers everywhere look to scale back their discretionary spending, many people are cutting corners in what could turn out to be the worst possible place - their drugs - and falling prey to a dangerous new breed of pharmaceutical counterfeiters. Thanks to a spiraling economy and the loss of health insurance that typically accompanies job loss (not to mention huge profits for perpetrators) the global market for knock-off drugs is expected to reach a staggering $75 billion next year, according to a recent report by The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. The World Health Organization estimates that 10% of the global pharmaceutical supply is counterfeit, and the number is accelerating, especially in developing nations.
Another day, another job cut announcement by a major company.
The 1 to 2 million people expected to pour into downtown Washington for inaugural festivities will pose major challenges for the city, for law enforcement, and for the attendees themselves.
The future of design could see the divide between able-bodied and disabled people vanish.
If you think you're immune to market panic, consider this experiment.
A new tool that allows doctors to use laser surgery in complex operations has been hailed as a breakthrough in minimally invasive laser technology.
Does your wife's closet look like a jewel box of shoes, while you wish your bank account could afford an actual box of jewels? Or maybe you're tired of your spouse snapping up the newest tech gadgets and instead want to spend the money on a vacation together.
Nearly half the nation's mortgage borrowers will soon owe more on their mortgages than their homes are worth, according to a new report.
Raising the quality of teaching and learning in American schools is a priority. It receives a great deal of attention in our national discourse and should receive more.
When Ryan Teeples and his wife, Lessley, first got married, they clashed over his meticulous accounting habits. She felt like he was scrutinizing her for everything she bought, and he, a self-identified "cheapskate," wanted to know exactly where money was being spent, he said.
As consumers everywhere look to scale back their discretionary spending, many people are cutting corners in what could turn out to be the worst possible place - their drugs - and falling prey to a dangerous new breed of pharmaceutical counterfeiters. Thanks to a spiraling economy and the loss of health insurance that typically accompanies job loss (not to mention huge profits for perpetrators) the global market for knock-off drugs is expected to reach a staggering $75 billion next year, according to a recent report by The Center for Medicine in the Public Interest. The World Health Organization estimates that 10% of the global pharmaceutical supply is counterfeit, and the number is accelerating, especially in developing nations.
Another day, another job cut announcement by a major company.
The 1 to 2 million people expected to pour into downtown Washington for inaugural festivities will pose major challenges for the city, for law enforcement, and for the attendees themselves.
The future of design could see the divide between able-bodied and disabled people vanish.
If you think you're immune to market panic, consider this experiment.
A new tool that allows doctors to use laser surgery in complex operations has been hailed as a breakthrough in minimally invasive laser technology.
The Scrubs star helms his buddy's new music video for "I'd Rather Be with You"
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Many immigrant children get even less vigorous exercise than their U.S.-born counterparts, the largest study of its kind suggests
Northwestern is the latest school to let students shave a year off the traditional three-year slog
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A university official says the school had offered the Rev. Jeremiah Wright an honorary Doctorate of Sacred Theology
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Gentlemen, Steve Horner has your back, protecting you from what he calls the "feminist-Marxist" conspiracy that promotes ladies' nights in bars.
Too Many Hysterectomies? One-third of all women get a hysterectomy before they turn 60. Some experts think two-thirds of them don't need it.
Rock the Vote uses music and popular culture to get young people involved in politics, so it's probably no surprise that the group is using Facebook to reach plugged-in voters.
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Divers at a collapsed interstate bridge prepared Friday to resume a painstaking search that has found five bodies so far
Can you tell whether someone's gay just by the way he or she walks?
Here's who was walking in each of the research videos from Northwestern University graduate student David Sylva:
The discovery of three distant supermassive black holes in proximity to one another is giving astronomers a glimpse into the chaotic early years of the universe.
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