Navy SEAL officer Eric Greitens delivered Tufts University's commencement address on May 20, 2012.
Over 1.8 million gallons of dispersant chemicals have been added to the Gulf of Mexico to break up oil flowing from the Deepwater Horizon's ruptured well. And in the 100 days since the rig's explosion, little more has become known about the effects of those chemicals.
A preliminary autopsy on the body of an energy executive pulled from the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, this week revealed a head laceration and evidence of drowning, investigators said Thursday.
The body of a missing energy executive was pulled from the Mississippi River in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Tuesday, four days after he disappeared, a police spokesman said.
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New Orleans' Mardi Gras is often called the "world's largest free party," but for the people who build the parade floats, make the costumes, serve the refreshments and put up the out-of-town guests, it's big business.
CNN's Susan Roesgen reports on the evacuation plan for New Orleans Children's hospital.
Three years after Hurricane Katrina taught New Orleans' medical community some painful lessons, hospitals here are trying to learn from past mistakes.
Ten fraternity members at Tulane University face criminal charges in an alleged hazing incident in which pledges were repeatedly burned with hot water, cayenne pepper and vinegar, police said.
Think your commute is bad? Imagine driving 280 miles roundtrip to work.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta investigates five hospitals in New Orleans that are joining forces to stay afloat post-Katrina.
Outside the village of Sinikosson in southwestern Ivory Coast, along a trail tracing the edge of a muddy fishpond, Madi Ouedraogo sits on the ground picking up cocoa pods in one hand, hacking them open with a machete in the other and scooping the filmy white beans into plastic buckets. It is the middle of the school day, but Madi, who looks to be about 10, says his family can't afford the fees to send him to the nearest school, five miles away. "I don't like this work," he says. "I would rather do something else. But I have to do this."
If there is a heart to the city of Denver, it is the Weil family. Two years ago, Mayor John Hickenlooper even named a street named after the patriarch, Jack A. Weil, who at 106 still heads to work every morning at Rockmount Ranch Wear, the company he founded in 1946.
Breaking down the SEC battle that could be a preview of the conference title game ...
Mental health crisis looms
Waiting in line is part of life in post-storm New Orleans, especially when it comes to health care.
Amid all the problems, two years after Katrina there are some positive signs of economic recovery
Amid all the problems that New Orleans has faced, relieving black-white distrust has proven to be one of the toughest
First Hurricane Katrina blew away his chosen hospital.
Six months after its near death by drowning, the Crescent City is marking its resuscitation with Mardi Gras.
Tax-advantaged 529 college savings plans are named after the section of the tax code that governs them. Now offered in every state and the District of Columbia, 529s offer a great deal of flexibility.
Even before Katrina hit, the Gulf Coast Belt was the megapolitan with the cloudiest forecast, especially in its poorer eastern half. During the past few years, New Orleans's population declined and...
Efforts to evacuate some of the 200 patients at New Orleans' Charity Hospital resumed Friday, a day after they were halted because of sniper fire.
The evacuation of patients from Charity Hospital was halted Thursday after the facility came under sniper fire twice.
A private ambulance service says it is being hindered in its efforts to evacuate patients from New Orleans hospitals by the lawlessness in the city and appealed to President Bush to activate the military.
Flirting at the office is not only taboo, but it could even take a toll on your financial future.
Warren Buffett didn't earn his reputation by ignoring great investment ideas, no matter what the source. So when a group of University of Tennessee students visiting Berkshire Hathaway in February ...
In your most glittery post-IPO dreams, what do you see yourself doing? Chatting with Lou Dobbs on CNN's Moneyline? Arriving at your high school reunion in a Maserati? Parrying impertinent questions...
FORTUNE's All-Stars are, by definition, equity analysts--stock jocks with the picks to prove it. So on purely technical grounds, Ravi Suria, who covers the less-than-glamorous domain of convertible...
After you've graduated with honors from Harvard law school, won an insider-trading case before the Supreme Court, toiled at a distinguished Washington law firm, taught law at Tulane University, sav...
Q. My son will be ready for college next year and wants to go to the University of Pennsylvania, Tulane or Georgetown, all of which cost upwards of $25,000 a year, even though he could probably get...
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Mike Milken invests, we report. His Junkbondness is now backing Seventh Level, a Los Angeles educational interactive multimedia software company. Sort of like videogames with vitamins. A co-founder...
Do you lament the day the word ''nerd'' was linked with computers? Johnette Hassell, head of the computer science department at Tulane University in New Orleans, sure does. She thinks the nerdy ima...
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