| Fri, 10 Aug 2007 | | For many parents, TV is the ultimate baby sitter; 68 percent of children under age 2 watch two hours or more of TV each day, a recent survey found. But almost no research has been done on the effect of TV watching on the Pampers set. In one of the first studies of its kind, researchers in Seattle say that tots who watch Baby Einstein- or Brainy Baby-type videos lagged in language acquisition. | | More information |
| Wed, 8 Aug 2007 | | With the scribble of a pen last Friday, President Bush signed into law a bill that would implement the remaining recommendations of the 9/11 commission report. It was a victory for victims' family members who have pushed vehemently for national security reforms after the catastrophic events of September 11. | | More information |
| Thu, 9 Aug 2007 | | You can be forgiven if you're drowning in the flood of sports drinks now on the market. Gatorade, Accelerade, and Powerade (not to be confused with PowerBar's line of drinks) all say they can improve exercise performance and keep the athlete's body going. But how, exactly, do they do that? And who really needs them? | | More information |
| Thu, 9 Aug 2007 | | Amid the sharpening debate over whether or not the United States should withdraw from Iraq, a new study by the respected Rand Corp. think tank sheds some light on why Bush administration officials have been defending their controversial "surge" plan so vociferously. Put simply, the other options are all worse. | | More information |
| Thu, 9 Aug 2007 | | The traditional campaign season—if such a thing still exists—isn't supposed to rev up until after Labor Day. | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | You can usually walk past someone's office and accurately guess the occupant's gender?there's something about the way the room is decorated, organized and lit that tells the visitor if a man or woman works there. | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | From diamonds and designer jewelry to high-end shoes and handbags, luxe goods are flying off virtual shelves. According to an April 2006 report from eMarketer, jewelry and luxury goods made up 7.5 percent of total online sales in 2005, a figure expected to nearly double to 14.1 percent by 2010. | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | About half of Thomas Harpointner's 25 employees are unmarried, a fact he considers unremarkable given that AIS Media Inc., his 10-year-old firm, produces software and services for electronic marketing and commerce. "Being an IT company, it's more common to have younger employees," says Harpointner, 37. "And younger people tend to be single." | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | Exchange-traded funds and index funds aren't so different. They are both baskets of stocks that are meant to cover a broad sector or index and managed passively rather than actively. You're tracking the same well-known, 500-stock index whether you invest in the SPDR S&P 500 ETF or buy shares in the Fidelity Spartan 500 index fund. | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | Outsourcing has long been an option for large, established companies, but many startup entrepreneurs have begun using the strategy to build their companies. From saving money on staffing to growing your business rapidly, outsourcing can be just what you need to launch. That's what Curt Keller found when he started The Benchmark Internet Group in 2003. The Long Beach, California, entrepreneur wanted to start a company that would provide e-mail marketing solutions to other businesses, but he found that fully staffing his company would be cost-prohibitive. Keller looked to China, India and Russia for programmers who could help him launch his website. Internet communication was key?IM, e-mail and Skype proved invaluable to communicating with potential outsourcing partners. "Finding out how well they could communicate with me was a very detailed process," says Keller, 46. "I spent about three to four months talking to people online." | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | Strictly speaking, the word moblog is not a new contribution to the Seussian vocabulary of the Internet. But the term?a portmanteau word of mobile and blog?still hasn't widely caught on outside the digerati crowd, years after cellular companies developed the technology to upload images and video taken by a camera phone directly to the Web, cutting out the computer as a middleman and allowing people to maintain a blog from their mobile phone. | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | North Korea's need for energy is desperate?and captured in pictures for all the world to see. Now-famous satellite photos show an overwhelmingly dark North Korea at night contrasting with the well-illuminated cities and towns of its rivals South Korea and Japan. | | More information |
| Tue, 7 Aug 2007 | | Miram Shah, Pakistan—With Pashtun tribesmen gathered around him, a bearded man clad in militia garb and with a gun clinging to his shoulder issued a directive on behalf of the local Taliban commander: "Any looter disguised as Taliban must be shot and killed on the spot to restore peace." | | More information |
| Wed, 8 Aug 2007 | | About 14 million Americans are afflicted with rosacea, a chronic inflammatory condition sometimes referred to as "adult acne." Most frequently affecting people ages 30 to 60, rosacea can cause pimples, visibly enlarged blood vessels in the face, chronic eye irritation, tough and thickened skin, and, in severe cases, rhinophyma—a swollen, bulbous nose that was famously manifest in actor W. C. Fields. Though treatments, including oral and topical antibiotics and laser therapies, can ameliorate symptoms, there is no cure. But a study published Sunday in the online edition of Nature Medicine points the way to potentially better therapy. We spoke with its author, dermatologist Richard Gallo of the University of California-San Diego. | | More information |
| Wed, 8 Aug 2007 | | While more kids are overweight today than ever before, overemphasizing weight issues can have an unintended downside: Research suggests that it may increase the likelihood that children will turn to dangerous dieting behaviors in an effort to trim down. U.S. News recently sat down with five teens who battled anorexia and were treated at the Emily Program, a private eating disorders facility in Minneapolis-St. Paul, to find out what sent their weight plunging. Here are some comments they wish they'd never heard. | | More information |
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