Walking is a wonder exercise. Not only can it can help control weight, it also reduces the risk of developing diabetes, certain cancers, and heart disease.
Walking is a wonder exercise. Not only can it can help control weight, it also reduces the risk of developing diabetes, certain cancers, and heart disease. Walking bestows benefits to the brain too, by relieving stress and improving mood. Best of all, walking is free: You don't need fancy equipment or a gym membership to reap the benefits. Here's how to make every step count, no matter how often you hit the pavement.
Though Thomas the Tank Engine earned a loyal following of American children in the 1980s and 1990s through his popular PBS television show, real trains have long been out of favor with the American public. Even Thomas was a British import.
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.
Edward Liddy, chief executive officer of American International Group, is known for straight talking, consistent profit-making and innovative thinking.
House Democrats on Friday introduced the tax portion of their proposed $825 billion economic recovery package.
The celeb chef serves up the dish on Paltrow, Jay-Z and Jennifer Aniston
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama debated on the campus of the University of Mississippi Friday night. The moderator for the debate was Jim Lehrer of the NewsHour on PBS. What follows is the full transcript of the debate:
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama debated on the campus of the University of Mississippi Friday night. The moderator for the debate was Jim Lehrer of the NewsHour on PBS. What follows is the full transcript of the debate:
Blythe Danner says Paltrow and Chris Martin's secret is their "musicality"
Walking is a wonder exercise. Not only can it can help control weight, it also reduces the risk of developing diabetes, certain cancers, and heart disease.
Walking is a wonder exercise. Not only can it can help control weight, it also reduces the risk of developing diabetes, certain cancers, and heart disease. Walking bestows benefits to the brain too, by relieving stress and improving mood. Best of all, walking is free: You don't need fancy equipment or a gym membership to reap the benefits. Here's how to make every step count, no matter how often you hit the pavement.
Though Thomas the Tank Engine earned a loyal following of American children in the 1980s and 1990s through his popular PBS television show, real trains have long been out of favor with the American public. Even Thomas was a British import.
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.
Edward Liddy, chief executive officer of American International Group, is known for straight talking, consistent profit-making and innovative thinking.
House Democrats on Friday introduced the tax portion of their proposed $825 billion economic recovery package.
The celeb chef serves up the dish on Paltrow, Jay-Z and Jennifer Aniston
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama debated on the campus of the University of Mississippi Friday night. The moderator for the debate was Jim Lehrer of the NewsHour on PBS. What follows is the full transcript of the debate:
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama debated on the campus of the University of Mississippi Friday night. The moderator for the debate was Jim Lehrer of the NewsHour on PBS. What follows is the full transcript of the debate:
Blythe Danner says Paltrow and Chris Martin's secret is their "musicality"
The actress reveals how she keeps her slim figure on The Oprah Winfrey show
Take a peek at vintage clips of the teen Disney stars singing and dancing on the PBS series
Question: What can I do to protect my novel service or product idea when I'm presenting it to a large business? - Sam Klaidman, Framingham, Mass.
Each week, SI.com's Richard Deitsch will report on newsmakers from the world of TV, radio and the Web.
Get a sneak peek as the actress and star chef eat their way through Spain
Tom and Ray Magliozzi are not what you'd call an overnight success story. The two MIT-educated car mechanics first started offering car repair advice over the air on a local Boston station in 1977. A decade elapsed before National Public Radio picked the show up and distributed it on its national network. Since then Car Talk has gone on to become the most highly-rated and financially-successful program on public radio.
Until the mid-1960s, the elderly made up the largest population of Americans living below the poverty line. The economic trinity of Medicare, Social Security and corporate pensions stopped that insidious trend and brought financial security to millions of people beyond their wage-earning years - but today, that infrastructure is under attack, leaving many workers and entrepreneurs nervous about how they'll afford to eventually stop working.
The CNN anchor explains that he had "minor surgery" under his left eye
Dear FSB: I have some potentially profitable new product ideas. Two of the proposed offerings could be made easily and used by people worldwide. How do I get a manufacturer interested in making them or creating samples for me?
An homage to both the spirit of filmmaking and the resilience of antiquated technology lift Michel Gondry's latest movie.
The last total lunar eclipse until 2010 occurred Wednesday night, with cameo appearances by Saturn and the bright star Regulus on either side of the veiled full moon
The story of an enslaved African royal who became a key figure in the abolitionist movement has remained largely obscure. But a new documentary has rediscovered it
In a recent column, Emily Breidbart, a second-year medical student at New York University School of Medicine, expressed concerns about her medical education and the frustrating health-care system she will soon enter.
This fall's most star-studded book tour will feature Joan Didion, Seymour Hersh, Doris Kearns Goodwin and others reading coast to coast on behalf of an award-winning author they dearly wish could have discussed his work himself: David Halberstam.
Experienced RV drivers share the tips they wish someone had given them.
Imagine a presidential debate where the moderator, as well as the panelists posing the questions, are all journalists of color.
SIGH OF RELIEF? Can we all breathe easier now? All I can tell you is maybe. Frankly I was really very surprised another shoe didn't drop after last week's little firestorm. Aside from subprime lenders like New Century and NovaStar, which have absolutely torpedoed, the market was simply repriced down 4 percent or so. Which considering the insane gains we've reaped over the past six months is hardly anything to complain about.
A "Brick," a "Noodle," and eight other things we recommend this week:
Pets outnumber people in the United States by about 60 million, with furry, feathered and scaly inhabitants numbering about 360 million, according to the pet industry.
Have you noticed that the system of justice in this country is shutting down, piece by piece by piece? We have long noted the deleterious effects of "tort reform" here in Texas, where insurance companies are ever bolder, and injured workers and consumers have fewer and fewer rights. But there is a shutdown in criminal justice, as well.
One wrote songs about village greens, humble homes with names like "Shangri-La," bickering sisters and night descending on Waterloo Station. Pete Townshend once said he should be poet laureate of England.
Clowns, curling, and eight other things we recommend this week:
Rock and folk music legend Bob Dylan has signed on with XM Satellite Radio as host of a weekly program.
IT IS AMERICA'S MOST HATED, INEFFECTIVE, INSIDIOUS tax--and it's just too strong to be killed. That has been the case, in any event, for at least a decade. But now it's possible--just barely possib...
IT TOOK A MONTH FOR THE THREE MILE ISLAND NUCLEAR reactor to cool off in 1979 after it partially melted in America's most famous nuclear accident. The emotional heat was a lot more intense; it took...
ACROSS WESTERN ECONOMIES, THE 2005 CHINA FREE-trade freak-out is in full swing. Politicians are saying and doing things they ought to be ashamed of. Certain industry groups and labor unions want us...
SOMETIMES ONE OF THE DAY'S GREAT ISSUES DOES US the favor of pounding us on the head so hard we can't ignore it, and one of them has done that just lately. The issue is saving vs. consuming, pruden...
"Wall $treet Week with Fortune," public television's weekly financial news program that replaced the long-running "Wall $treet Week with Louis Rukeyser," is being pulled from the air after three years of broadcast.
YOU'LL HARDLY EVER HEAR ME USE THE WORD "GREED," because it's such a loaded, imprecise term. What's greed, and what's just profit maximization? But sometimes "greed" is the unavoidable word, as it ...
LOOKING FOR A NEW REASON TO FEEL PROUD OF YOUR country? Here's one you probably hadn't thought of: America's role in the world economy is about to start diminishing.
A DAY IT SEEMED WOULD NEVER COME IS FINALLY NEAR. It's the day--or, more correctly, three days--of justice, when we finally learn the fate of the three most important defendants in the scandal wave...
AS WE GREET THE NEW YEAR, LET'S THINK CLEARLY about one of America's most popular and least realistic New Year's resolutions: to get out of debt.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. said Friday it plans to launch a weekly program, called "Everyday Food," a television spinoff of the company's successful magazine of the same name.
IF YOU THINK YOUR JOB IS SAFE FROM OFFSHORING, think harder.
THE MAIN REASON PSYCHOTHERAPISTS ARE TREATING Kerry supporters for a new psychiatric disorder--post-election selection trauma, a Florida doctor calls it--is that on the morning of Nov. 2 many of th...
IN A MEMORABLE SCENE FROM P.G. WODEHOUSE, BERTIE Wooster enters an antique-silver shop in London and encounters Sir Watkyn Bassett, a judge who believes, mistakenly, that he had at one time found B...
A CIA PREDATOR DRONE, AS USED IN AFGHANISTAN AND Iraq, costs $25 million, not that you could buy one even if you could afford it. But the Draganfly Predator is another matter. It's a scaled-down mo...
SO AT LAST THE ELECTION IS A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE economy than it used to be. Voters have been telling pollsters for months that the economy is their No. 1 concern, but media chatterers don't want...
The following is a transcript of the first section of the debate between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry held Thursday night at the University of Miami. The topic of the debate was foreign affairs and, and the moderator was Jim Lehrer of PBS.
America's rich have been taking a pounding lately, and it's time someone spoke up for them.
Julia Child, who revolutionized cooking in the United States with her cooking school, cookbooks and television shows, has died, according to a statement from her publisher, Alfred A. Knopf. She was 91.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia said Tuesday it plans to shut its money-losing Internet-direct commerce business by the end of the year. It features The Catalog for Living -- a broad collection of household and decorating products.
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Tuesday announced a new PBS television show without its famous founder or her name.
What could become the nastiest, most divisive political issue of all time is now apparent, and the moment is worth marking because the issue is going to torment us for decades--though not in the ...
A few years ago in London, six City bankers, celebrating their good fortune to be City bankers, dined at the restaurant Petrus, a lavish place with a wine list to make a French king drool.
So "Friends" and "Frasier" are going off the air.
George Bush and John Kerry are apparently competing to see who can be stupider on the hot-button issue of factory jobs. I don't propose to declare a winner in this econo-dope derby, but it's worth ...
You recall the famous experiment in which researchers offered marshmallows to 4-year-olds. One by one each child was brought into a room, given a single marshmallow, and told he could eat it. But, ...
You'd never guess it from watching TV news or reading the papers, but the biggest concern of voters this year isn't WMDs or the economy or Howard Dean's howl or whether President Bush went to his N...
What do Saddam Hussein, Andrew Fastow, Dennis Kozlowski, Nicolae Ceausescu, and Michael Milken have in common? At least a few things: All were extremely fond of money, all pushed the boundaries tha...
When thousands of Californians refused to go to work one day in mid-December, and thousands more kept their kids home from school, it was all because Governor Schwarzenegger had barely brushed the ...
FLORIDA, Nov. 29 (AP)--A mob of shoppers rushing for a sale on DVD players trampled the first woman in line and knocked her unconscious on Friday as they scrambled for the shelves at a Wal-Mart Sup...
The most striking spontaneous mass phenomenon of the past year isn't Howard Dean's out-of-nowhere support or even the baffling rise of Net-powered flash mobs. Overlooked but more important is Ameri...
You remember how Michael Eisner turned around the Walt Disney Co. almost immediately after becoming CEO in 1984: He jacked up ticket prices at his theme parks. Realizing that Disney parks were far ...
The issue du jour is being framed as "jobs," which is a shame because that sounds like a movie we've seen before, and it isn't. Yes, American companies are firing U.S. workers in rising numbers whi...
You're a fool and a chump. What other conclusion can we draw? You've bought shares in publicly traded companies, haven't you? Then as far as the rules and regulations are concerned, you're too dumb...
Worried about media concentration? Don't be. But do be worried about what's happening in media. To see why, look past the FCC's latest decision allowing media mammoths to grow even bigger, and cons...
With cosmic irony (suggesting that the almighty gets a kick out of watching us try to make money in stocks), two documents of special interest to investors have appeared simultaneously: One is the ...
Amid all the front-page hoopla over MCI's agreement with the feds to settle fraud charges for $500 million--the largest penalty ever sought by the SEC--did you notice anything ... missing?
With the continuing stream of juicy revelations from HealthSouth, already on the A list of business scandals, we're in for another round of hand-wringing over the widening crisis in corporate Ameri...
This past year it wasn't just the stock market taking us for a wild ride. As we moved closer to war with Iraq, oil prices jumped from $20 to nearly $40 a barrel. By late March they'd fallen to abou...
What the war costs in dollars is not the most important thing. What it costs in lives and what it achieves are the most important things. But right now you can't help thinking about the cost in do...
The law of unintended consequences spares no one, not even the sincerest lawmakers and regulators. So let's brace ourselves for the real effects of the recent well-intended efforts to fix the crisi...
Does EBITDA now stand for "Earnings Before I Tricked the Dumb Auditors?" As that current Wall Street joke suggests, the scope of corporate ethics has grown a bit wider in the past 12 months. The at...
Now is the time to prepare for the next wave of reaction to the past year's business scandals. If you're just reacting to the first two waves, you're behind the curve, because they're well underway...
America Online (a unit of my sainted employer, AOL Time Warner) is looking for a new competitive knockout in the broadband world. So are all its major competitors, like Microsoft and Yahoo. E-mail ...
A Renaissance man. That's my image of Geoffrey Colvin--and not just because 23 years ago, when we were both aspiring reporters, he first caught my attention with a funny New York Times op-ed piece ...
What, if anything, makes you wince when you look in the mirror? Frown lines, puffy eyes, crow's-feet, laugh lines? What about turkey neck, which is skin-expert talk for those wattles that may impel...
Who's to blame for all this reality-based TV? It would be easy to single out the network heads. But as much as we would like to vote them off our island nation, the real culprit is Mary-Ellis Bunim...
Retired schoolteacher Claire Beckmann last year stumbled upon a new get-rich-quick scheme. Ignoring internet startups, IPOs, and hedge funds, Beckmann went straight for beat-up furniture.
And now for something completely different. Fans of the 1970s British comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus will of course recognize that as a John Cleese catch phrase--although Cleese is know...
Now that keeping tabs on the stock market is America's favorite pastime, business television is big business, with three networks devoted to financial news. CNBC, the home of Squawk Box, had cash f...
A few weeks ago I was watching television, attempting to fill the aching spiritual void between dinner and the end of the millennium. I was watching the news, because nothing fills an aching void a...
I'm an average, middle-aged (44) middle-class guy from the middle-American town of Independence, Iowa. My wife Mary, 43, and I have never earned a big income and have no formal training in finance....
Our national anthem should be the Star Spackled Banner. This year Americans are expected to spend a record $119 billion on home improvements, and the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) be...
This issue's package of stories on the booming merger market began--like many good ideas--with a simple observation: There sure were a lot of big deals last year. The observers were Carol Loomis--t...
A PRISONER SHORTAGE
Today's world has far too few real leaders. Now there's a statement we can all get behind. Having said that, could we please endorse the following statement with equal fervor? One thing the world d...
To write about a technology, I ought to try using it, I told myself. So I took advantage of an offer to interview a videoconferencing manufacturer on his company's gear. I found that with a little ...
Even though belt tightening is the order of the day, big corporations are increasing their support of the Public Broadcasting System. In 1990 they pledged $56.6 million in production money to major...
As anyone who has ever undertaken a home improvement project surely knows, the best way to learn how to do it yourself is to watch someone else do it first. That fact largely explains the success o...
Michael Keeshan, 38, wasn't pressured by his family to pursue a business career. His father, Bob, 62, television's Captain Kangaroo, would often say to his son, ''If you decide you want to pump gas...
-- STEPHEN MARRIS, 57, economist with the Institute for International Economics: ''I don't have much money, but one thing I have learned is that it's easier to make money talking about the dollar t...
Herewith the second annual Keeping Up nominations for the Ten Most Depressing Events of the Year. A funny thing about the entries below is that, although selected for their ineffable depressingness...
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