Dubbed the "no vacation nation," the United States lags behind most other developed countries when it comes to vacation days. But Americans don't seem to mind.
After months of allegations of racial profiling and poor relations between the police force and populace, officials in the New York city of Rochester are vowing to tackle the issues head-on, a city councilman said Saturday.
updated: Mon Aug 15 2011 05:36:00
After its police force is accused of making unfair arrests, the city of Rochester, New York, seeks to make changes.
Countless pundits have wondered aloud whether or not the incredible attention the U.S. women's national team has received can be translated to Women's Professional Soccer (WPS). The extremists have had their say. Women's soccer faithful talk about the sport "arriving" after such a glorious Women's World Cup run in which the U.S. fell just short, losing to Japan in a captivating final. On the other hand, mainstream media conditioned to think soccer -- let alone women's soccer -- is an inferior sport will continue to think that it's a waste of time.
Dr. Greg Couser, M.D., is the medical director of the employee assistance program at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. He also holds a handful of other titles, including two that begin with director or assistant director. Needless to say, his job is demanding, but he typically doesn't get too stressed out. Why?
At first glance, the addition of western New York as a 2011 expansion team in Women's Professional Soccer raises eyebrows. In fact, the Buffalo-Rochester market wasn't even on WPS' radar until two months ago when talks with team owner Joe Sahlen began; the league had been set to enter next year with the same seven teams that ended this season.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- There really isn't much to add to the Stephen Strasburg hype orchestra. He's obviously too good to be pitching in Triple A. Working for the Syracuse Chiefs against the Rochester Red Wings on Wednesday night, he threw 6 1/3 more scoreless innings (that's 18 1/3 scoreless at Syracuse). He allowed three hits -- only one of which was well hit -- and he struck out nine, and he hit 100 on the radar gun, though it was his wiffleball change-up that left the sellout crowd in Rochester gasping.
It may be the most iconic piece of office equipment of the past half-century.
Since certain parts of the country are in the depths of a "snowmageddon," with more snow predicted, chances are good you might be shoveling a bit -- or a lot.
Every business has felt the burden of ballooning medical costs, but few have focused as intently on keeping employees healthy as Paychex, the payroll and HR outsourcer based in Rochester, N.Y.
Airline passengers who were trapped on tarmacs "like sardines in a can" had their opportunity to air their grievances Tuesday at an unofficial Capitol Hill hearing that shared some of the characteristics of those flights.
Claustrophobia was not a condition Bill Johnson understood.
updated: Mon Aug 31 2009 09:59:00
Tapes released by federal officials detail efforts by an airline pilot to allow passengers off his stranded plane,
Each week, SI.com's Richard Deitsch will report on newsmakers from the world of TV, radio and the Web.
The mother of a 17-year-old Rochester, New York, high school student who vanished over the weekend on spring break in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, says she did not give her daughter permission to go on the trip.
updated: Wed Apr 29 2009 12:43:00
Dawn Drexel, mother of missing teen Brittanee Drexel, speaks out about her daughters disappearance.
To understand Jay Wright's strengths as a promoter, you need to go back to one evening at Philadelphia's 30th Street Station during the spring of 1984.
For decades, if you wanted to wear a portable entertainment system on your head, you had to be willing to pass for an extra from Star Trek. Those days are over. Vuzix, a Rochester, N.Y. developer of video eyewear, has a new device scheduled for release this summer: the unobtrusive Wrap 920AV, which weighs just under three ounces and looks like wraparound shades.
It's no secret that cold and flu season peaks in winter. And if you're looking for ways to stay well, one priority, say experts, is simple: Follow a wholesome diet, just as you should any time of year. But that can be a tall order during the busy holiday season, when hectic social schedules and family commitments often interfere with regular meals.
Scientists say they've found an efficient way to make red blood cells from human embryonic stem cells, a possible step toward making transfusion supplies in the laboratory
Remember peeking through a View-Master? Scientists are using the same concept behind the classic kids' toy to try to see mammograms in 3-D
updated: Wed Jan 30 2008 06:40:00
Heavy snow smothers Washington state, shutting schools and cutting power to thousands. Affiliate KREM reports.
NHL Board of Governors announces new schedule format
The distraught man who took hostage of a Hillary Clinton campaign office in New Hampshire Friday, surrendered after a six-hour standoff
Scientists peek into a newly forming solar system 1,000 light years away and discover five times the water on Earth -- plus some unexpected tidbits about our own solar system's past
The town of Fairport, New York, is mourning the loss of five teenage friends killed this week in a fiery highway crash.
Hey, caffeine boy. If you chased foul balls like that can of Coke you'd be in the bigs by now. -- Mike, Mt. Prospect, Il.
Many Americans looking at the values of their homes are asking not whether it will fall, but how much. But in fact, more than half of the 100 top markets in the U.S. are slated to rise next year.
Dissolving dead animals sounds creepy, but for one company it may be a profitable reality. WR[2], a private firm in Indianapolis, has patented a process called alkaline hydrolysis to turn carcasses...
For over half a century, Robert Wegman held only held one job. Luckily for him--and for us--it was the only job he ever wanted.
Do you feel optimistic or pessimistic about our future? Here CNN.com readers voice their opinions.
Look down from the cabin of Kevin Schieffer's twin-engine King Air 5,000 feet over Wyoming's Powder River Basin, and it's easy to see why he and his investors want to build the first major new rail...
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Consider these items: construction of a $7 million ''Renaissance Square'' performing arts center in Rochester, New York; a $1.5 million improvement for the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan; and the $1 million renovation of a historic bus station in Jessup, Georgia.
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
A recent article in the New York Times questioned the value of annual physicals, noting there was little evidence to support some of the procedures that are done on a routine basis. Instead of an a...
He has built his entrepreneurial empire on his talent for imposing order on financial chaos, and as the founder of Paychex, the nation's second-largest payroll processor, B. Thomas Golisano turned ...
Great brands don't die, they...okay, they die. Or fade into obscurity. Below, three classic products that peaked before going the way of the Edsel.
Buy and hold. Diversify. Put your money in index funds. Pay attention to the one thing you can control--costs--and keep them as low as possible. Today that is pretty standard, if often unheeded, in...
You get a prescription, you pop your pills, and in a few days you feel better. Sounds easy. But taking medicine is not as simple as it seems. And we'd do a much better job of treating what ails us ...
Coronary heart disease kills almost six times more women than breast cancer does. Even so, if you ask a woman what disease she's most afraid of, her answer will likely be breast cancer.
"Break a leg" may be good luck in the theater but not when it comes to osteoporosis. The disease causes bones to become more porous, gradually making them brittle--and it causes 1.5 million fractur...
The symptoms of a heart attack aren't necessarily obvious. People talk of chest pain, but it's usually pressure or a squeezing sensation. This is called angina, and it occurs when blood flow in one...
An informed consumer is the best customer, but have you tried navigating your way through the maze of health information in the news these days?
Anthrax is today's big story. Tomorrow's could be smallpox--a highly contagious disease that's fatal 30% of the time. There's no treatment for smallpox. The good news, such as it is, is this: If a ...
Starve a cold, feed a fever. A lot of upper-airway secretions are swallowed when you have a cold, and this can decrease appetite by filling you up. It's also true that a fever will raise your metab...
In case you haven't noticed, medicine is in the throes of tremendous technological change. MRIs are scanning areas never before seen. The human genome is being explored. Commonplace procedures toda...
If I told you I could prescribe something that would prevent heart disease, diabetes, and obesity, and make you feel great, you'd be at the drugstore in a heartbeat. But hold on. I'm talking about ...
Years ago I asked a wise old mentor about the secret of long life. Was it diet, exercise, not smoking, something else? Without skipping a beat he answered, "Attitude." The first step to staying hea...
Stress has become part of everyday life--40% of U.S. workers feel it on the job--but not all stress is bad. Most of my patients would be bored to tears without stressful challenges in their lives. ...
What's the latest on cell phones and brain tumors?
By now, most people know that the French have a low risk of heart disease despite their high-fat diet. It's called the French paradox, and it's widely believed to result from their generous consump...
Whether it be ringing up groceries at the cash register or stocking canned beans in aisle five, work at a supermarket would seem to define the dead-end job. Not, however, at Wegmans. The Rochester,...
Once or twice a week I get a call from a patient who's just heard about a new early-warning test for cancer, heart disease, or some other serious condition and wants to know why my office hasn't ca...
One of my patients, a 48-year-old woman, recently complained of having difficulty sleeping. She was also experiencing wild mood swings and hot flashes. She was convinced she was suffering from a ra...
Don Spieler, 64, had a good run. After 33 years at Kodak, where he had become president of the company's Mexico operations, it was time to retire and return to his hometown of Rochester, N.Y. Spiel...
When I hear that a patient has been diagnosed with colon cancer or, worse yet, that the cancer has spread outside the colon, I feel a twinge of pain. Almost all colon cancers are preventable. End o...
Why is sharing knowledge hard? Why do ideas sit off in one corner of a company, as inert as argon, when they could bubble and fizz and precipitate gold somewhere else? The question comes up all the...
In the U.S., prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer among men (skin cancer is first) and the second leading cause of cancer death (after lung cancer). It's also the subject of...
Stress is a popular topic. So's prostate cancer. But the thing most of my patients want to talk about is diet. They've all got friends who've lost 20 pounds in two weeks on a steak and bacon-and-eg...
It might make life easier if we all agreed about what's most important in a hometown--if we could somehow forge an ironclad rule about what makes a city, big or small, the best place to live. Of co...
Everyone who saw me that night--nurses, residents, doctors, technicians, and emergency room attendants--said the same thing: What I was experiencing was the male equivalent of labor pain. I agreed....
George Fisher, normally a cerebral, rational scientist, is mad. "We've run out of patience--we're in a kill mode," he said, sitting in his Rochester, N.Y., office on a recent rainy day. Kodak's 57-...
Success stories have warmed the pages of this magazine since its founding nearly 70 years ago. But the accounts of large achievement that follow are unlike any FORTUNE has printed before or will se...
Veronique Roger, a consultant in cardiovascular diseases and internal medicine, is running late, but I hardly notice. I'm fascinated by the photo of two identical-looking beef dinners on the wall. ...
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OKAY, Michael Hammer, how do you handle this one? Here's a line of business whose customer base is shrinking. Rivals battle for market share by offering deep discounts. If they hold the line on pri...
LIFE SURE IS MISERABLE HERE in Jackson, Mich., which you ranked No. 300, dead last, in September's "The Best Places to Live in America." The economy is so poor that I have to work 44 weeks a year t...
Partly because of top educational facilities like Duke University (pictured above), North Carolina's Raleigh/ Durham/Chapel Hill area was No. 1 in MONEY's eighth annual ranking of "The Best Places ...
This year, in MONEY's eighth annual ranking of the livability in the 300 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, the economic action is resounding in the Southeast, roaring in the Rockies and rolling into...
When layoffs hit a company town, it's not only the employees who suffer. More than most cities, Rochester, New York, has basked in the paternalistic glow of its corporate citizens. Monuments to lar...
ON A BRISK Wednesday evening late last March, 38 men and women gathered in the brightly lit community room at the Church of the Transfiguration in Pittsford, New York, an upper-middle-income Roches...
Science isn't only for people who tape their glasses. That's the message of U.S. First, a nonprofit organization that holds an annual competition in which professional engineers and high school stu...
I have lived exactly half my life in Rochester, Minn., which your September report "The Best Places to Live Now" ranked No. 1 in the nation, and half in Modesto, Calif., No. 294. If you like to wea...
"The Best Places to Live Now" incorrectly reported that jobs in the nation had decreased 0.37% from February 1992 to February 1993. They actually increased 0.97%. Also, Dubuque, Iowa, with 86,400 p...
; No place, not even our top place, ranks No. 1 in every way. We rate the metro areas in nine broad categories, ranging from health (medical care and a lack of pollution) to wealth (job-growth pros...
Once again, in MONEY's seventh annual ranking of the 300 largest U.S. metropolitan areas, bigger isn't better. Rochester, Minn., our No. 1 place for 1993, continues a three-year trend. Like our No....
January's "Load Funds Worth the Price" does give us an interesting look at front-end-load mutual funds that demonstrate exceptional long-term performance. As a general rule, however, readers should...
DUANE HYATT, 54, A MACHINE AND SUPPLIES TESTER for Xerox, is spending nine months volunteering full time at a Rochester, N.Y. women's shelter -- while Xerox pays his full salary and benefits. Marti...
FOR AL WHITE and his 200 employees at Ford Motor's new customer assistance center in downtown Detroit, quality has nothing to do with the factory floor. It means a state-of-the-art telecommunicatio...
Your May story on changing dollars abroad encourages travelers to carry traveler's checks and cash them as they spend money. My wife and I traveled to France last year with many $20 and $50 denomin...
EDUCATION EXPERTS, hardly a conforming lot, tend to agree on one thing -- the best way to turn out smarter students is for their parents and teachers to work together. Says Bettye Caldwell, a profe...
BUY A BURGER and catch a disturbing glimpse of America's future. When they ring up your order, those bustling teenagers behind most fast-food restaurant counters are pressing pictures of hamburgers...
''Where Have All the Babies Gone?'' (December) is a very thought-provoking story on our failed adoption system. ! It is important that your readers understand that adoption is a beautiful way to bu...
In the new age of supermarket shopping Mr. Whipple may be replaced by a robot. In a high-tech supermarket, a computer changes the price tags, video display terminals offer recipes and recommend win...
A group of women is planning to picnic topless in a Rochester, N.Y. park, to protest a state law forbidding women -- but not men -- from going bare-chested in public. Protest organizer Ramona Santo...
Electric utility stocks and interest rates move like opposite ends of a seesaw. When interest rates on bonds fall, as they have lately, prices of power company stocks -- bought mainly for their fat...
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