Sex reduces heart disease. An inexpensive treatment option?
10:00 AM 1/26/2010
Sex at least twice per week can reduce heart disease according to a new study at the New England Research Institute in Massachusetts. Researchers tracked the sexual activity of men between 40 and 70 years old who were taking part in a long-term project called the Massachusetts Male Ageing Study,...
New Economics of Marriage --The rise of the wives
3:30 PM 1/20/2010
A larger share of men in 2007, as compared to 1970, are married to women whose education and income exceed their own, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of demographic and economic trend data. A larger share of women are married to men with less education and income.
From an economic...
Gay marriage --The answer for states' budgets?
12:00 PM 1/20/2010
Gay marriage may be gaining support; not because of a shift in philosophical or moral values, but because states need the bucks. According to a recent study by the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, the law allowing same-sex couples to marry in Maine would have boosted the state budget...
Heidi Montag: Big bucks for a new bod
10:30 AM 1/20/2010
Heidi Montag is looking for a new body and she is willing to pay big bucks to get it. Reportedly, she had 10 procedures done in the month of November to look "perfect." According to People Magazine, she did all the procedures in one day because she did not want to go under anesthesia multiple...
Should we tax junk food to control obesity?
3:00 PM 1/11/2010
Americans are getting fatter and some legislators are looking to tax junk food to control obesity. Based on the history of how heavily taxing cigarettes changed personal behavior, extra taxes on soda may stop people from sugaring themselves to death.
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A study of a thousand business people reported that 89% take work home, 65% work more than one weekend a month and 53% spend less than two hours a week looking after their children. Completed by the American Management Association, the study also revealed that more than 68% of the survey...
Lottery winner is missing-feared murdered
5:00 PM 1/8/2010
Abraham Shakespeare, a truck driver's assistant, who lived with his mother, won $30 million in the Florida lottery in 2006. It now appears that his good fortune may have cost his life. According to Associated Press, he vanished months ago and his case is now being investigated as a...
Addiction to greed: Why the wealthy still steal from the till
9:00 AM 1/8/2010
Koss Headphones, a small publicly-traded company based in Milwaukee, said last week it has fired Sujata "Sue" Sachdeva, the executive VP recently accused of embezzlement. Sachdeva, who is accused of spending millions on expensive clothing and jewelry, including more than $1.3 million over two years...
Rick Warren's church needs more money, parishioners say 'amen'
4:00 PM 1/4/2010
The profitable industry of saving souls has apparently hit a speed bump. Pastor Rick Warren of the megachurch, Saddleback, sent out an urgent letter this week to all of the 22,000 members that $900,000 was needed to balance the budget. Citing lower contributions due to the economy, he has requested...
Divorce rate drops -- should we thank the recession?
1:00 PM 1/4/2010
Recession seems to be helping couples stay together. The divorce rate is now at its lowest level in 30 years and it may be related to money problems. Per Center of Disease Control National Center for Health Statistics data, the numbers of divorce filings have plunged or at least remained roughly...
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