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Readers respond to “The Attachment That Still Makes Noise” (March 24).

Quick: Where’s your passport? Your birth certificate? Your college diploma? With help from this app, the answers could be at the tip of your fingers. With spring cleaning on many people’s to-do lists, itâ�...

Readers respond to “Mixing Freedoms in a 32-Ounce Cup” (Economic View, March 24).

Readers respond to “Going It Alone, Together” (March 24).

“Sometimes you must do more than differentiate your product,” says the C.E.O. of Satellite Healthcare. “You must differentiate yourself.”

A 52-year-old German immigrant by the name of Christian Gerhartsreiter is on trial this month in Los Angeles for the 1985 murder of California man John Sohus. While Gerhartsreiter is little known, many have heard of his ...

In the workplace, the way you look has a huge impact in your own confidence as well as the way others view you — especially if you're in a management position.  Your fashion sense can reveal your personality...

New factory robots, designed to work and play well with others, no longer have to be fenced in to protect workers from accidents.

We're going to need a bigger acronym. In the beginning, it was just the "Greek debt crisis". Then markets realized Portugal, Ireland, Italy, and Spain were in bad shape too, and the PIIGS (or GIIPS) were born. But now Cy...

Maple syrup conjures images of old-fashioned rural New England, but the reality is changing with the help of technology.

The market's record-breaking spree has raised a new fear in many American households—dread that they are missing out on big gains.

President Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act celebrated its third birthday last weekend. This particular anniversary was a big deal, because it was often unclear whether the law would reach it. In ...

Alex Fondrier doesn't think politics should be the proverbial "third rail" in a relationship. In fact, Fondrier points to a study from the Journal of American Politics which found that, next to religion, political compat...

Kindness is a good habit that has a lasting effect that supports and reinforces the quest for the good life. Helping others bestows a sense of satisfaction that has two beneficiaries?the beneficiary, the receiver of the ...

Everyone knows that iPhones are made up of lots of tiny parts. Not everyone realizes that while your phone was designed in Cupertino, CA, the parts were manufactured all over the world before coming together to create a ...

President Barack Obama is in attendance at today's regional final of the NCAA tournament in Washington D.C. between Syracuse and Marquette. He is looking relaxed wearing his Under Armour jacket and with his leg up on the...

Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter joined the chorus condemning Philadelphia Magazine's "Being White in Philly" article for depicting blacks as "lazy, shiftless, irresponsible, and largely criminal". And he called on the ...

The most common image of an innovator is of a kid developing a great idea in a garage. But that is the exception to the rule.

Anyone born in the 70s to parents of an even slightly knit-your-own-muesli disposition must have encountered the horror of "non-competitive games". The intention was excellent – to show that vanquishing other peop...

Today’s retirement housing caters to those who demand far more than the old-school retirement homes. Facilities boast full-size gyms, chefs trained at top cooking schools, professionally decorated interiors and an...

Consumers insist that they treasure their online privacy. But their mouse clicks tell a far different tale, as the experiments of a behavioral economist show.

Big business and labor have struck a deal on a new low-skilled worker program, removing the biggest hurdle to completion of sweeping immigration legislation allowing 11 million illegal immigrants eventual… Click to...