The solution to ending an abusive relationship seems simple: Walk out the door.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta tracks down a Mexican child who may be 'patient zero' in the swine flu epidemic.
As panic mounts over the increasing number of swine flu cases, it looks like the world is ending, with a sniffle and sneeze -- again.
This spring break, thousands of college students will ditch the bars and the beaches to do something more meaningful with their vacation time.
A former student who killed five people at Northern Illinois University last Valentine's Day had been drummed out of the Army for hiding his psychiatric history and expressed admiration for famous murderers, CNN has learned.
Eric Mace says he thought he was giving his daughter good advice by asking her to sit up front in class.
Doom and gloom were everywhere in 2008. It's not surprising, then, that people are longing for a return to normal, or at least to something a little less painful.
Human-induced global warming is real, according to a recent U.S. survey based on the opinions of 3,146 scientists. However there remains divisions between climatologists and scientists from other areas of earth sciences as to the extent of human responsibility.
Researchers in the United States are buoyed by the results of a study which has determined that a giant grass could help the country to meet its steep biofuel targets.
While the McCain campaign goes after Obama's "terrorist" ties, the Windy City bewails the scrutiny inflicted on a radical turned educator
An $8.9 million online campus launched by the University of Illinois nine months ago has had disappointing enrollment and fewer course offerings than expected, but the man who created it isn't giving up
A new study shows that babies in day care are fatter than those raised at home
Checked out the bestseller lists lately? In February you would have spotted motivational expert Marci Shimoff's "Happy for No Reason," which claims to teach you "how to experience sustained happiness for the rest of your life." In March came "The Geography of Bliss" by journalist Eric Weiner, a travelogue of places on Earth where people are the happiest. Both of these follow on the heels of "Stumbling on Happiness" by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert, which has been translated into 20 languages.
If a shooter came into some of the biggest classrooms at the University of California-Berkeley, recent graduate Scott Alto wonders whether students would be able to protect themselves.
Kent State University student Allen Brown says universities are easy targets for attack.
Utah researchers find that drivers on cell phones drive sluggishly, clogging traffic and lengthening your commute
After the suicide of a gambling-addicted soldier, a new bill seeks to eliminate slot machines from bases overseas.
A bill in Congress seeks to eliminate military slot machines overseas that take in $130 million a year, mostly from soldiers.
Newly sworn-in Attorney General Michael Mukasey tapped U.S. District Judge Mark Filip of Chicago on Thursday to be his deputy
Video courtesy NBC's Today showWhen Jeff Jordan takes to the court as freshman player No. 13 with the University of Illinois basketball team, expect an immediate hush to fall over the crowd – and all eyes to turn to him.
Last weekend an unfortunate figure returned to the University of Illinois, and it wasn't Jeff George. Chief Illiniwek, the former school mascot, was back to adorn floats and assorted regalia at Homecoming to the cheers of some and the bitter horror of those who thought the feathered one had been retired for good.
It's time to head back to school. But it's not just kids who are going back to class. Adults in their 30s and 40s are also gearing up for the academic year. If you've thought about going back to college, we'll give you the 101.
Record-high milk prices are stinging Americans at the dairy case, just as millions of thirsty school children are returning to classes.
Cleaning up contaminated water is big business. World demand for treatment is forecast to increase 6 percent per year through 2009 to more than $35 billion, according to a 2006 report by research firm Freedonia.
A quick annual pruning will keep flowering shrubs shapely and full of blooms.
Early-stage studies in mice have shown that adult blood could be a richer source of insulin-creating stem cells than fertilized eggs, according to Dr. Yong Zhao, assistant professor at the University of Illinois.
Name: Kelli Kluga Birth Date: 04/26/1988 Hometown: Downers Grove, Ill. School: University of Illinois Year: Freshman Major: Accounting and Finance
With American's newfound concern over global warming, and the age old desire to stretch the dollar as far as it can go, more and more buildings are going green, literally.
What's left behind from the ethanol-making process could be what saves the livestock industry from the high price of corn.
How long would these drugs let us live?
Many of us worry about overeating when we sit down for a meal. But what, beyond overindulgence, makes people feel full -- and how can we leverage foods' filling powers to help control portions?
Every Valentine's Day, I begin to sweat, my heart races and my palms turn cold as I think about the horrible, shocking moment when I was told I had cancer.
Preaching from the pulpit of St. Mark's Church in lower Manhattan one afternoon, the Rev. Billy Talen looks and sounds a lot like the evangelists on Sunday morning television. He's loud. He's passi...
Another one bites the dust
Scientists analyzed the portrait of the Mona Lisa, a woman with famously mixed emotions, hoping to unlock her smile. They applied emotion recognition software that measures a person's mood by examining features such as the curve of the lips and the crinkles around the eyes.
Money Magazine: Junk Mail Confidentialupdated: Mon Dec 12 2005 16:39:00
• THE COME-ON What if you die? Who will pay your credit-card bill?
A man who committed suicide when stopped by a police officer outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Wednesday night left a note confessing to the shooting deaths of the husband and mother of a federal judge, Chicago police said Thursday.
Money Magazine: Don't Split On Meupdated: Sat Nov 01 2003 00:01:00
Fund manager Chris Davis piqued our interest recently when he revealed an admiration for companies that don't split their stocks. It seemed like an odd preference, given that splits have historical...
It's mid-April, and my boyfriend, Scott, and I are headed out on a road trip. We're going to spend a month visiting colleges and talking with kids about technology. It's an awesome assignment, and ...
Money Magazine: On Internet Timeupdated: Fri Dec 01 2000 00:01:00
Will the next 30 years of Internet expansion be as fast and furious as the first 30 years? "We're not done, by any means," says Internet analyst Henry Blodget.
After Marc Andreessen and his University of Illinois cohorts invented Mosaic, the browser that first opened up the Web to millions of people, he co-founded Netscape, the company that helped launch ...
Fortune: Marc Andreessen updated: Mon Apr 17 2000 00:01:00
Andreessen led the team that created the Mosaic browser while he was still an undergrad at the University of Illinois, and co-founded Netscape at age 22. After a brief stint as AOL's chief technolo...
It's taken Sherlockian persistence, but academic researchers have finally framed a plausible explanation for the irrationality of CEO pay. Three researchers from the Duke, Stanford, and University ...
WHAT MAKES A COLLEGE great? To parents it's a school that delivers top-quality education at reasonable cost, such as one of this MONEY Guide's top 100 values (see page 14). To students, however, a ...
Ameritech and Motorola in April start testing a software and hardware system that links homes and small businesses to one another, and to the Internet, in a new and inexpensive way. The chosen loca...
We're all familiar with what's been happening to college prices. My four years at Princeton (class of 1964) cost less than $12,000, while my daughter's four years at Oberlin ('94) topped $90,000. A...
Malii Brown, 13, of Park Forest, Ill. is considering a career as a teacher. "I'll encourage her to be a college professor," says her ambitious mother, Mae Brown, 41, who earns about $50,000 a year ...
Lured by the dazzling Dow, a record 170 companies peddled initial public offerings of stock in 1992's first quarter, raising an astounding $11.2 billion. At least another 150 or so IPOs are expecte...
In a speech to the Association of Community College Trustees, Senator Robert C. Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat who heads the Senate Appropriations Committee, said four-year institutions were . . ...
Arthur Jensen, the psychologist and perennial center of the IQ controversy, was somewhat off the mark in the note he sent your correspondent a while back. The note, attached to a scholarly paper en...
THE SMALL STATUE perched atop Steven Einhorn's Quotron terminal represents everything that Goldman Sachs's chief portfolio strategist is not. The plaster figure is a rumpled Wall Streeter, hair dis...
If October is the stock market's cruelest month, January appears to be its most beneficent. Contrary to both market theory and common sense, research shows that January is a better month than other...
Fortune: Signalsupdated: Mon Mar 16 1987 00:01:00
A superconductor developed by physicists at the University of Houston and the University of Alabama in Huntsville promises eventually to reshape the electric utility, railroad, and medical diagnost...
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