Stocks extend gains to fourth week

U.S. stocks rose, sending benchmark indexes to a fourth weekly gain as signs of improving demand for capital goods, technology products and consumer items eased concern that the economic rebound is slowing.


Business - Investing - Stocks and Bonds - Equities - Dow Jones Industrial Average

The tech help file: Which type of GPS device to choose?

Q: I'm about to get a new car and want a GPS device. Should I buy an in-dash navigation system, a stand-alone GPS receiver or a GPS-enabled smartphone?


Global Positioning System - Geomatics - Earth Sciences - GPS - Shopping

Verizon's Fascinate reaches new lows among smartphones run amok

A "Google phone" hand-cuffed to Microsoft's Bing search engine sounds like a bad joke. But it's a real product, one for whichVerizon Wireless charges $199.99.



Smartphone - Android - Verizon - Samsung Group - VerizonWireless

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Ingredients for success in following your career dreams: Passion and foresight

Kate Carrara of Philadelphia, the self-proclaimed "Cupcake Lady," sold her house and car and gave up a well-paying job to start Buttercream, a mobile cupcake shop.


Employment - Social Sciences - Business - Careers - Psychology

How to outsmart your biases

The notion that we're hard-wired to make poor decisions is a central tenet of investor psychology. Of course, some of us are wired better than others. Warren Buffett, for example, seems to have emerged from the womb ready to go, like the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli. But instead of springing to life...


Health - Mental Health - Arts - Twitter - United States

Death of a salesman: the once-familiar figure at the door is rarely seen these days

Maybe Willy Loman was a little ahead of his time. His demise in Arthur Miller's 1949 play "Death of a Salesman" wasn't intended to predict the downfall of an iconic American profession. But surveying today's scarred employment landscape, one fact stands out starkly: America has stopped creating s...


Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller - Literature - Arts - Drama

On Leadership: Tea party - No leader, no problem?

Donald F. Kettl is dean of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.



Politics - Conservative - David Miliband - Parties - History

Student journalists detail troubles with U.S. transportation safety

This story is one of several reported by journalism students in the Carnegie-Knight News21 program in collaboration with the Washington-based Center for Public Integrity. The News21 program is based at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University.


Media - Journalism - Organizations - Journalist - Conflict Reporting

The mega payoff of increased immigration is lost on the pols

I have a plan that will raise wages, lower prices, increase the nation's stock of scientists and engineers, and maybe even create the next Google. Better yet, this plan won't cost the government a dime. In fact, it'll save money. A lot of money. But few politicians are going to want to touch it.


Immigration - United States - Law - Services - Lawyers and Law Firms

As more hospital systems consolidate, experts say health-care prices will jump

From their base in Baltimore, leaders of Johns Hopkins Medicine can see the future - and it's at the hospital down the road.


Health care - Medicine - Health - Facilities - United States