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The parents in my Brooklyn neighborhood are known collectively as the "stroller mafia" and around these parts we take our strollers pretty seriously. We may live in an outer borough, but it's still pretty urban and gritty, and strollers take a beating around here. We use ours every day for walks to...

The first iPhone was able to bring iTunes integration and all parts of the Internet* to the mobile arena, to the delight of millions. When it was followed up with the App store and the iPhone 3G, millions more were once again enthralled by the ability to surf the Internet, read their email and play...

Platinum is a particularly useful metal; over a third of the annual world production goes for catalytic converters, and new fuel cell technology depends on it as well. However, when it comes to jewelry, I think platinum is overrated. I'm not questioning the rap your local jeweler may have laid on...

Thanks to television shows such as "Flip This House," many Americans have caught fix-up-and-flip fever, buying foreclosures and attempting to resell them after minimal improvement for big bucks. The reality of this strategy wasn't great before the housing bust, and for the unsavvy investor it can...

I can't afford to be a wine snob, but let's pretend for a moment that I could. The first bit of snobbery you'd see from me would be the banishing of all but the most famous merlot varietal wines from my cellar. I'm right there with Miles in the movie Sideways when he says, "If anyone orders a...

Just because those with higher education have lower death rates doesn't mean that bachelor's degrees are all they are cracked up to be either. In an column for the Chronicle of Higher Education Marty Nemko, a college consultant and author, shares his view that the bachelor's degree may be the most...