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With these powerful new tools for restricting indecent content, do consumers really need a nanny-state to protect them from the big, bad networks? For the most part, no; even a minimally-informed consumer is empowered to selectively bar offensive material from his or her television.
Richard D. Kadison, chief of Mental Health Services at UHS, published an article in the New England Journal of Medicine last September entitled "Getting an Edge—Use of Stimulants and Antidepressants in College." In this article, Kadison laments the rise in perfectly healthy students seeking out a "magical...
This was an interesting weekend to go car shopping. We had concluded it was time to replace our trusty Subaru, which after long and faithful service deserved a dignified retirement. So we trolled Consumer Reports and headed off for some test drives, sniffed at the Mazda 3, petted an Impreza...
If all you want is a hedge against rising consumer prices, gold may not be your best option. Consider Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities (TIPS), which are bonds for which the return rises with the CPI. If you are sold on gold, keep it to 5% of your portfolio. Here are...
Harvard professors are once again the second best-paid faculty in the country. Full professors receive an average paycheck of $168,700, a figure that trails only the New York-based biomedical science research center Rockefeller University, where professors get paid $172,800 on average, according to the American Association...