• Pope hits out at consumer culture during Australia visit Pope Benedict XVI is an unlikely green campaigner, but he made environmental concerns a theme of his speech to young Catholics in Sydney today. The world's natural resources were being squandered...
• Ugly economic times can lead to ugly divorces They started to fight when the money got tight, and they just didn't count on the tears ..." Lyrics from Billy Joel's "Scenes from an Italian Restaurant" are resonating quite a bit lately with New...
• Rising costs, debt & uncertainty: Desk rage spoils workplace for many Americans Get out of the way, road rage. Here comes desk rage. Anger in the workplace -- employees and employers who are grumpy, insulting, short-tempered or worse -- is shockingly common and likely growing as...
• More Women May Retire Poor Women may not earn as much as men or fly up the corporate ladder as quickly, but they get the last laugh since they live longer. Right? As it turns out, women probably aren't saving enough to...
• Sexpot Virgins: The Media's Sexualization of Young Girls In 2006, the retail chain Tesco launched the Peekaboo Pole Dancing Kit, a play set designed to help young girls "unleash the sex kitten inside." Perturbed parents, voicing concern that their...
• No secret about Mass. Freemasons' anniversary ceremonies Dressed in dark suits with white gloves and aprons, hundreds of men gathered at the Copley Westin Hotel yesterday afternoon to celebrate the 275th anniversary in Massachusetts of the Freemasons, a...
• Is mortgage crisis causing divorces? The financial pressure that comes with an escalating house payment or a foreclosure may indeed be playing a role in breaking up marriages, experts say.
The home-mortgage crisis in the United States...
• Couples turn to online espionage: Couples turn to online espionage Research undertaken at Oxford University suggests that an increasing number of people are spying on their partners online.
One in five couples admitted to reading a partner's emails or text...
• Soaring energy costs 'to change how society operates' ENERGY costs could increase up to tenfold over the next few years, profoundly changing the way business and society operate, a former Woolworths chief says. Roger Corbett told a Queensland University...
• Teach Your Child How to Handle Money They're refrains passed on from each generation of parents to their children: "What do you think – I'm made of money?" Or, of course, "Money doesn't grow on trees." Discussing money with their...
• Are Modern Women Miserable? One of the first to record her answer to that conundrum was the Marquise du Chatelet, whom history has recollected as the jilted mistress of Voltaire. That is short shrift: The brilliant marquise was...
• How To Be Happy: Ask yourself if you really need what you buy 'I am spending too much, to the point where I am waking up at night worrying about my credit-card debt. What can I do?' H.Step 1: Avoidance strategies that work during the day by distracting us often...
• America closes the book on intelligence: Our country is barely smarter than a 5th grader -- no wonder it's drowning in religious fundamentalism and political ideologues on both sides, argues Susan... For an author of serious nonfiction, success can lead to some surprisingly disheartening encounters with the reading public. Susan Jacoby's 2004 history of American secularism, "Freethinkers," was...
• Born to Shop: How Marketers Brainwash Babies Marketers are targeting kids at disturbingly young ages, compromising the nation's health, creativity and democracy.Santa's shopping is in full swing. Peak season for what I consider child abuse,...
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