Remember your first road trip? That sweet taste of independence as you were finally unleashed on America's free and open highways?
Know a lot about politics? Think Mitt Romney is a lock to win the 2012 Republican presidential nomination? Wanna put some money on it?
Susannah says she can tell how a date will go within the first three seconds. Turns out, she's only about four seconds faster than average at sizing up a potential mate.
As any teenager will tell you, being popular is totally awesome. But it has a downside: According to a new study, popular people tend to catch the flu first.
People who have low levels of the so-called good cholesterol have long been known to be at higher risk of heart attacks and heart disease. Now, a new study suggests they may have a higher risk of cancer, too.
When Jennifer Nicholas sees television shows or movies where characters "hook up" or have sex with "friends with benefits," she cringes, because that's how she got herpes.
Barack Obama's journey to reform America's health care system comes full circle Thursday as he returns to the place where he launched his ideas.
Sure, Luke Mescher felt a trembling fear when the walls around him started to shake Saturday, but standing around confused and scared wasn't an option.
An earthquake destroyed bridges and ripped massive cracks into a roadway near Champa, Chile.
When Lynn Houston was 27, she met an affectionate young man during a business trip to Virginia. Although she lived in Arizona, the two began dating; they married six months later. But after she joined him in Virginia, he became distant and had angry flare-ups, Houston says.
Brianne Leckness stares into the camera, a crooked smile spread across her face. It's the epitome of youth -- a young girl with bows in her hair ready to tackle the world. A dog scampers behind her in a blur.
Author Stephen G. Bloom talks about the making of "The Oxford Project."
Substandard science has hurt a federal agency's seven-year effort to document possible links between industrial pollution and health problems in the Great Lakes region, an independent review panel said Friday
The first time that the 11 University of Iowa students met Associate Professor David Redlawsk in their political-science seminar, they could see former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack over his shoulder while Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar's voice boomed in the background.
After six hours of searching Hickory Hill Park Wednesday with an infrared-equipped plane, police were unable to find missing University of Iowa Professor Arthur Miller.
Before you head out to the interview, check your suit for lint, your résumé for typos, your teeth for spinach and your hands for a firm grip.
The state Board of Regents has reopened its investigation into the University of Iowa's handling of an alleged rape by two of its football players.
Misti Guertin was a publicist with a full roster of clients and a growing salary when her husband, Gary, 56, was offered a job managing a luxury resort on a private island in the Caribbean.
Floodwaters inundated Iowa City and the University of Iowa arts campus on Sunday despite what one official called a "Herculean effort" to hold back the water with sandbags.
Doctors may want to give stroke victims antidepressants right away instead of waiting until they develop depression, a common complication, new research suggests.
Drowning in a mortgage you can't afford? Whether or not you get a new one will be decided by someone you've probably never met at a company whose role is barely visible: the mortgage servicer.
After a long winter, every home needs a thorough spring-cleaning.
Fortune Small Business first met Diana Reed when she was a senior at the University of Iowa, double-majoring in business and dance, starring at football games as one of the Big Ten's top baton twirlers, and running her own for-profit twirling studio on the side. This week, the rest of the world got a look at Reed's talents, as the reigning Miss Iowa twirled her way down the red carpet at the Miss America pageant in Las Vegas.
The latest Iowa Hawkeye poll shows a tight Democratic race and a Romney blowout on the GOP side
The number of bankruptcy filings dropped significantly in 2006, a year after reforms were passed to amend U.S. bankruptcy law in hopes of curtailing fraud and abuse in the system.
The odds of Republicans controlling the next Congress have dropped sharply since news of the Congressional-page scandal broke, according to a "futures" market operated by the University of Iowa.
Weather that originates at the sun, not here on Earth, is responsible for radio waves that cause an unusual shape of two belts of radiation that encircle Earth and contain "killer electrons" that can damage satellites and pose a risk to space travelers, scientists report.
While the number of companies implicated in the ongoing options back-dating imbroglio has cracked the 50-plus mark, a fair number of those companies may emerge from the saga unscathed, a new report suggests.
Fortune: A study in CEO greedupdated: Thu Jun 08 2006 10:33:00
One of the questions crying loudest from the developing scandal of backdating stock options is, Why now? As new companies announce daily that they're investigating their stock option practices or t...
Fortune: Business Classupdated: Tue Jun 06 2006 10:49:00
At 21, Diana Reed has already reached the pinnacle of one career. A senior at the University of Iowa, she is the Hawkeye Golden Girl, one of the top twirlers in the Big Ten. Every Saturday during f...
Fortune: A study in CEO greedupdated: Fri May 26 2006 14:43:00
One of the questions crying loudest from the developing scandal of backdating stock options is, Why now?
With the controversy over stock options growing more heated by the day, investors are wondering how many more companies will face scrutiny from government regulators and prosecutors.
For a 1999 research paper, Baba Shiv, then an assistant professor at the University of Iowa, told two groups of experimental subjects that they would be participating in a memory study. He asked th...
Mayrose Wegmann, 25, should have been starting on her dream career as a political consultant by now. And saving toward her first home.
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.
That's the big issue in a tussle between the Investment Company Institute, the fund industry's lobbyist, and two academics whose fund research has given New York State attorney general Eliot Spitze...
Get it through your once-thick skull. Scientists say the bulky craniums of the human ancestor, homo erectus, may have helped the species survive some aggressive mating rituals.
From Bob Franken, CNN correspondent:
Want to bet when the first bombs will fall on Baghdad? A handful of websites--Tradesports.com, Iraq Attack Pool (www.thecarrot.com/iraqattack)--let gamblers wager on political events, including whe...
With the bull market in ruins around us, many investors have never felt more bewildered. And they are asking agonized questions: How could I have lost so much money so fast? Can I do better somehow...
The hot emotions triggered by the amygdala, your brain's panic center, can be harmful when they make you do things you shouldn't. But they can be beneficial, too -- as I learned in April, when I participated in an experiment at the University of Iowa.
Suddenly, stunning investment insights are coming from the frontiers of one of the least likely fields you could imagine: neuroscience. In university and hospital laboratories around the world, researchers are using the latest breakthroughs in technology to trace the exact circuitry your brain uses to make the kinds of decisions you rely on as an investor.
So far, we've learned a little about how our brains are set up to respond to the world outside. Now let's think about how you can use these new insights into the brain to make yourself a better investor.
So you think interest rates are going to rise again? Want to bet on it, but you're bamboozled by the futures market? Some University of Iowa professors can help you. Since late October, their priva...
If you thought big-budget highway projects were all of the information variety these days, take a trip to Texas, where Dallas and Houston are gunning to be supergateways to Mexico. Dallas is spearh...
The winner and still champion: New College of the University of South Florida. For the second consecutive year, the Sarasota school is America's best college buy, topping Money's annual ranking of ...
West 1. California Institute of Technology 2. University of Washington 3. Pomona College (Calif.) 4. Claremont McKenna College (Calif.) 5. Harvey Mudd College (Calif.) 6. University of California-B...
Everybody and his uncle is now into year-end tax planning, but few uncles have our tax problem. Friends, we have questions to which even the IRS has no answers -- which is, in fact, the problem. To...
As every employer knows, the work force is divided into two classes of people: those who view midwinter blizzards as providential excuses for taking a day off, and those who view them as challenges...
The big-business job shrinkage continues unabated. IBM is still trying to get rid of some 40,000 employees. GM expects to cut 74,000 at latest count. Just about all defense companies have been cutt...
The University of Iowa political stock market, where faculty, students, and other investors bet real cash on political candidates, picks George Bush to win four more years in the White House come N...
Your servant has not mentioned the Iowa Political Stock Market (IPSM) since November 1988, when he noted -- in a column that went to press just before election day -- that this remarkable instituti...
Is it ever legitimate to pronounce judgment on a theatrical work not actually seen by the pronouncer? Your correspondent's answer is yes, as indeed it has to be for purposes of this item, in which ...
Fortune: PEDAL PEDDLERupdated: Mon Jul 03 1989 00:01:00
What to do for summer vacation? Raymond Benton, founder of the biggest U.S. bicycle tour operator, has an alternative to that oh-so-typical fortnight at Martha's Vineyard. His company, Travent Ltd....
In Iowa City students use automated teller machines to pay college tuition, transferring money to the University of Iowa's account. In Texas and Louisiana, SouthWest Airlines sells standby tickets ...
Question: What is the best way to predict the winner of a sporting event? Answer, possibly getting familiar in these precincts: Look at the betting line. Academic research firmly states that free m...
Just as overzealous retailers have pushed the Christmas buying spree into November, some Wall Street watchers worry that the vaunted ''January effect'' may also get earlier every year. For some tim...
COMMODITIES BROKERS, who deal in everything from pork bellies to Treasury bills and precious metals, emerged from their trading pits months ago to fight sweeping new regulations proposed by the Com...
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