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When I was a kid, my grandmother used to spirit packets of oyster crackers from restaurants. She unwrapped gifts meticulously, peeling back the tape with her nails so that she could reuse the paper. She also stockpiled s...

Routine visits to the doctor?s office have become the definition of inefficiency. Whether patients are stuck filling out mounds of paperwork or counting ceiling tiles in the examiner?s office, time--with or without insur...

Vice President Joe Biden was a surprise guest at the Delaware University women's basketball team's NCAA tournament game Tuesday, in which it upset North Carolina, 78-69.  Afterward, he greeted Delaware's players in th...

The Catholic League is mad as hell and they aren't going to take it anymore. Bill Maher, host of HBO's "Real Time", has apparently made...

Less than two months after winning the Super Bowl, the Baltimore Ravens have let the six of the most important defensive players on last year's team go. Here's who they've lost: Ed Reed, safety (left, signed with Houston...

Today's advice comes from Kay Krill, president and CEO of Ann Taylor, via Bloomberg Business Week: "I graduated from college, and I did not know what I wanted to do. Macy’s came to campus to interview for their...

Does it ever feel like nobody takes deadlines or promises seriously anymore?

In order to better understand why it is a good bet, you have to travel back and see where freight rail nearly went off the tracks.

A judge on Wednesday approved AMR Corp's plan to merge with US Airways Group , a step toward creating the world's largest airline.

The law doesn't apply to CEOs of too big to fail financial firms.

When Hurricane Sandy struck no one was prepared, least of all the communities in the Far Rockaways and Staten Island that were hardest hit. More than four months later, these communities are still reeling.  In Novembe...

When Godard Abel began the B2B sales and software company, BigMachines, he was based in Chicago, so planting the startup seed near the city was a no-brainer. After he sold the company to two private equity firms for over...

It's pretty bad when a Ben Affleck movie is the top highlight for the one of the world's premier intelligence agencies. Taking out Bin Laden two years ago was a good way to top out, sure, but the steady thumping the CIA ...

IDC conducted a survey in conjunction with Facebook to find out how people are using smartphones. It surveyed 4,446 people aged 18-44 who use iPhones or Android-based phones. In this chart you can see how people are usin...

There's no better place than the Internet for minimal damage to swirl into an epic disaster. A skirmish between the anti-spam organization Spamhaus and a Dutch web-hosting firm has ranked as the biggest known distributed...

Vice President Joe Biden signaled Wednesday that the Obama administration would likely move forward on gun control by focusing on a two-part strategy that Biden called a possible "game-changer." Speaking on a call with s...

It's widely recognized that American inventors such as Alexander Bell, Thomas Edison and Henry Ford helped turn the American dream into a reality. Nowadays many inventors are coming from a different economic juggernaut �...

The nation’s largest banks, facing a torrent of lawsuits over shoddy mortgage securities, are pushing to overturn a series of tough rulings in a high-stakes case filed by the Federal Housing Finance Agency in 2011...

Videos based on “Gilligan’s Island” and “Star Trek” have emerged on YouTube and have drawn criticism from a senator.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A federal judge on Wednesday said JPMorgan Chase & Co must face a lawsuit by a pension plan that accused it of mismanaging its money by investing in Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc notes before that ban...

A national survey published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2012 reported that US physicians suffer more burnout than other American workers. Some 45.8%...

After her partner gave birth to triplets in 1998, Chris Crespo began paying closer attention to the employee benefits offered by her company, major accounting...