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You accidentally filet your finger with your sharpest kitchen knife. Your daughter breaks her arm at a gymnastics meet. Or the fool who's texting while driving totals your car -- with you in it. At some point in life, chances are you'll be taking a trip to the emergency room. Some 120 million...
Quick, hide the candy jar! Feeding your child candy every day could help turn Junior into a violent criminal, according to a large study in Britain, which found that 69 percent of the participants who had committed violence by 34 had eaten sweets or chocolate nearly every day during childhood.
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Comcast and NBC Universal: Antitrust apocalypse?
9:30PM 10/01/2009
Federal regulators are virtually certain to scrutinize any substantial pairing of cable leader Comcast (CMSCA) and content behemoth NBC Universal, the two media giants at the center of a frenzy of merger speculation, according to antitrust experts. If consummated, the mega-media merger would...
Stocks fell sharply Thursday after worse-than-expected readings on the manufacturing and labor fronts overshadowed better news on housing and consumer spending.
The blue-chip Dow Jones Industrial Average ($INDU) fell 203 points, or 2.1 percent, to close at 9,509, while the broader S&P 500...
Nike has sacked Philadelphia Eagles backup quarterback Michael Vick, contradicting the player's agent who said on Wednesday that the shoe giant had re-signed him. "Nike does not have a contractual relationship with Michael Vick," Nike said in a statement issued Thursday. Vick was released from...
Two paths to billions: Go to Yale, or drop out of college
1:30PM 10/01/2009
Forbes is the leader in gawking at the richest among us. Its latest list of billionaires shows that they took a $300 billion hit in 2008 -- down 19 percent, to $1.27 trillion. More interesting than that is Forbes's analysis of some of the common traits of the members of their list. When it comes to...
Bill Gates got a little poorer last year, but when you're worth $50 billion, who's counting? Well, Forbes is, of course, and despite the $7-billion decline in his fortune, Microsoft's (MSFT) co-founder remains America's richest citizen, according to the magazine's annual list of the nation's...
Behold! The $11 in-flight meal. But is it worth it?
2:30PM 9/24/2009
Now that airline fees are part of the furniture, we venture to the next new wrinkle in the sky. Airlines, knowing their bottom lines depend on surcharges, are learning to make those surcharges less painful by offering higher quality for them -- or, at least, pretending to.
Take Midwest Airlines....
If you love to play video games but you haven't already purchased a Nintendo Wii then you better wait a few more days.
Nintendo announced today that its popular Nintendo Wii console will be $50 cheaper starting on Sunday.
The release also confirmed that when the latest Mario Bros game, "The New...
Could an oil discovery in Kern County, California presage a return of the Golden State to national oil prominence?
In June 2009 Occidental Petroleum (OXY) announced it had tapped into an oil field that comprised upwards of 150 to 250 million barrels of black gold and natural gas. That discovery...
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