You, of course, are a paragon of good internet behavior at work. You send crisp, polite e-mails, you tuck away your smartphone upon entering your cube, and you wouldn't dream of fooling around on Facebook or Quora during the day.
Lying on a beach is nice and all, but sometimes, using your downtime to make a difference is just what the doctor ordered. Budget Travel's Trip Coach responds to readers' voluntourism questions.
There is a greater amount of water on the moon than previously thought, and it is probably widespread within rocks deep below the lunar surface, a group of scientists says.
What's that in your mailbox (or directly deposited into your checking account)?
A Chicago, Illinois, nightclub accused of barring six African-American students last week will participate in a rally against discrimination late next month, the senior class president of Missouri's Washington University said Wednesday.
An agreement could be reached before week's end between Washington University students and an Illinois nightclub that allegedly barred six African-American students while admitting nearly 200 of their white classmates.
Students from Washington University say they have complained to state and federal agencies that a Chicago, Illinois, nightclub barred six African-American members from their senior class trip celebration while admitting nearly 200 white classmates.
You could blame weeds, trees, and grasses if you start itching, sneezing, coughing, and wheezing this fall. But the usual suspects aren't the only triggers.
CNN's Elizabeth Cohen looks at a new study comparing popular diets.
A decade-long study following more than 75,000 men found that prostate cancer screenings led to more diagnoses but did not reduce the number of deaths from the illness.
When her baby girl takes an afternoon nap, or on those nights when she just can't sleep, Sarah Andrews, 32, tosses off her identity as a suburban stay-at-home mom and becomes something more exotic: a "virtual deputy" patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border.
If it's Friday, there must be a bank failing somewhere across the country.
Estrogen therapy is about the last thing you'd expect a doctor to prescribe for a woman with breast cancer: The hormone is famous for coaxing tumors to grow, not shrink. But in a new study, one out of three postmenopausal women with advanced cancer who were given a daily dose of estrogen saw their tumors slow to a stop, and in some cases, even get smaller.
You could blame weeds, trees, and grasses if you start itching, sneezing, coughing, and wheezing this fall. But the usual suspects aren't the only triggers. A host of household items -- candles, chemicals, stuffed animals, and spices -- may be the real culprits.
Faced with a nationwide financial crisis, a volatile stock market and rising unemployment and inflation rates, many Americans are making changes in their personal spending habits.
Pinching pennies
updated: Thu Oct 09 2008 11:31:00
Josh Levs speaks to iReporter Kathleen Fallon about what she is giving up due to the economic crisis.
CNN's Paul Steinhauser previews tonight's debate in Nashville, TN.
Students at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, sound off on whether a VP candidate can sway them.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin set the tone for how she would approach Thursday night's vice presidential debate before it began.
Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama landed some punches Friday night, but neither delivered a knockout blow in the first presidential debate featuring the two party nominees.
Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama debate the financial crisis and foreign policy.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden praised his Republican counterpart's acceptance speech as "incredibly well-crafted and delivered," but said Sarah Palin's rhetoric lacked substance.
cientists for the first time have peered into people's brains to directly measure the ebb and flow of a substance notorious for its role in Alzheimer's disease
New research shows that while 90 percent of 9-year-olds get a couple of hours of exercise most days, fewer than 3 percent of 15-year-olds do
Money Magazine: Life without plasticupdated: Tue Jun 17 2008 13:42:00
Times are tough, and like everyone else, you are trying to save more and spend less. The problem is, you've tried that before, only to see your spending inevitably drift back up. So here's a radical proposal: Stop using credit cards.
Even as they trim their payrolls, companies are keeping one eye on the future by stocking up on summer interns.
(TUCSON, Ariz.) -- Scientists for the Phoenix Mars Lander are wrestling with an intermittent short circuit on the spacecraft.
Like a miner prospecting for gold, NASA hopes its latest robot to
Mars hits pay dirt when it lands Sunday near the red planet's north
pole to conduct a 90-day digging mission
Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years -- starting as young as age 12 -- can help protect girls from breast cancer when they're grown
She says rumors about her personal life – and reported pregnancy – are "lies upon lies upon lies"
Patients aren't the only ones harmed by medical errors, according to a survey released Wednesday that found many doctors who make mistakes -- and even those who come close -- suffer stress, sleep problems and loss of confidence
New York, Illinois and Missouri announced settlements Monday with three schools for participating in questionable student loan practices, marking the latest development in the widening student loan scandal.
The organic market is growing at a steady pace of nearly 20 percent annually, and that translates into organic alternatives in nearly every grocery aisle -- from snack foods to frozen meals to baked goods. "Everyone wants to be healthy and these foods convey an aura of health," says Marion Nestle, Ph.D., professor of nutrition, food studies, and public health at New York University and author of "What to Eat." Here, experts compare some of the benefits and drawbacks of going organic.
The discovery of several large, metal-poor stars located far from the center of the Andromeda galaxy suggests our nearest galactic neighbor might be up to five times larger than previously thought.
...or whatever his dream school is. By salting away money now and being realistic about financial aid, you can do it.
Paralyzed rats partially regained the use of a previously immobile hind leg in a study in which scientists injected the rodents with stem cells from mouse embryos, according to researchers at Johns Hopkins University.
Class of 2006...prepare to flip your tassel with confidence. The way things look right now, the nearly 1.5 million college seniors expecting to graduate this spring are set.
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Summer is when people tend to blow off their goal of paying down credit-card debt, according to the Cambridge Consumer Credit Index. The reason might be that they've tried to pay too much. People w...
The grass is supposed to always be greener...but many of our readers don't seem to think so.
There is no good time to find out you have a malignant tumor, but Janna Bernstein says that her breast cancer diagnosis came at the worst possible time. She learned of it just a week after she buried her mother, who was her sixth relative claimed by cancer in a decade.
The medical year begins on July 1, the day that medical school graduates finish their training as resident physicians and stream out into the real world of shingles and stethoscopes.
With the rising cost of college, it isn't surprising that many families are feeling strapped by the financial burden of sending their children to school.
Your mom isn't the only person who clips supermarket coupons. According to a recent survey by Visa, 72% of Americans who earn more than $125,000 use them, compared with 65% of the population at lar...
The Opportunity Mars rover has turned into a junkyard dog, prowling ever closer to a hunk of space litter at Meridiani Planum -- a discarded heat shield.
The following is a transcript of the debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry held Friday night at Washington University.
The following is a transcript of the debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry held Friday night at Washington University. The second debate between the two took a town hall style format.
The following is a transcript of the debate between President George W. Bush and Sen. John Kerry held Friday night at Washington University. The second debate took a town hall style format.
Check out the links below to hot political stories around the country this morning.
Three times may be a charm in some realms, but it took four tremendous whacks to lift a certain rock off the Moon and shoot it serendipitously to Earth, scientists reported Thursday.
Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader is crying foul over the ground rules for this fall's presidential debates, which will likely leave him sitting on the sidelines again.
President Bush has tapped former Sen. John Danforth of Missouri to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, the White House announced Friday as the president traveled in Rome.
Nobody on the Mars rover science teams expected quick answers. But now the reality of the task is clear. Pinning down whether there was ever standing or running water at the landing sites of the twin Mars rovers is going to take some time. And the eager public will just have to wait, mission scientists made clear yesterday.
You'd have to have a deficit of the attention kind to have missed the recent news that the U.S. government is again solidly in the red. Headlines blared that the federal budget deficit will swell t...
Like almost everyone, Naomi Solo, 62, dreads a colonoscopy. The procedure--the most effective way to screen for colon cancer and growths, called polyps, from which it can develop--involves a day of...
For two years Thomas put up with the vulgar names that his boss, the manager of an Ohio bookstore, would hurl at him. Finally he couldn't take it anymore. Sure, he could quit, but wouldn't that be ...
In an age when the average employee has been with his current employer for only 3 1/2 years, how to go about getting a new job has become almost a science. So it's surprising that employees are lar...
If college bills have sneaked up on you, don't panic. Nineties parents have the best opportunity since World War II to bargain down the price of their child's first-choice college. A quick look at ...
Faced with a stagnant job scene, unemployed managers, career changers, and freshly minted college graduates are finding new ways to hunt for work. Big ) corporations still look good to many, who fl...
Begin with the premise, not universally conceded as yet but where the zeitgeist seems headed, that no right-thinking business person would use the term ''boss'' anymore. Much too hierarchical, fell...
Come in, Shumluck, come in. Sit down. I have a new assignment for you, an important assignment, a sensitive assignment. We're putting together a little corporate task force to look at interplanetar...
Take one part corporate funding, mix it with several parts university research, and add a chunk of luck. You get a company with leading-edge technology and a school with a royalty-earning product t...
The majority view among economists -- that any near-term U.S. recession will be a mild one -- hinges on the assumption that events in the Gulf crisis will stop short of outright fighting. Any nonvi...
Americans can be the keenest of consumers -- dickering with car dealers, driving dozens of miles to discount outlets to save a few bucks on a Calvin Klein skirt. Yet until recently, Aeven sharp sho...
In advanced managerial circles, the word discipline has fallen so far out of favor as to be either in bad taste -- ''We only talk empowerment around here, buster'' -- or the subject of slightly kin...
Graduating MBAs aren't the only ones after big bucks. Business schools want % money too, and some are ready to rename themselves after you -- provided you can meet the asking price. You're too late...
Bristol-Myers, Coca-Cola, General Motors, Exxon, Ford Motor, Citicorp, J.P. Morgan, and many other corporations have signed up as partners of the National Black MBA Association in a drive to persua...
COMMON SENSE says it's not good business for an investment banking firm to hire people who preach that the stock market can't be beaten. So why would Goldman Sachs & Co. put on the payroll a team o...
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