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Energy bars were invented with hard-core athletes in mind. Brian Maxwell, distance-running coach at the University of California, Berkeley, and his wife Jennifer cooked up the first PowerBars in their kitchen in 1983. They were looking for a performance-enhancing food that marathoners could scarf down late in...
No one--certainly not a techie--suggests that kids shouldn't use computers. But even industry insiders say parents need to set some guidelines for their use. Mary Furlong, the founder and CEO of Third Age Media, says she steers her two boys, ages 11 and 18, toward creativity-enhancing...
At the moment though, Nawaz Sharif is hoping for a more earthly kind of intervention: he is in New York City this week at the United Nations, where he will appeal to Bill Clinton to lift economic sanctions--imposed after the nuclear tests--and push the International Monetary Fund into...
As the saying goes, you don't get something for nothing -- especially not where sex is concerned. Just as the terrors of HIV followed the joys of the sexual revolution, so it seems that Pfizer's anti-impotence wonder drug, Viagra, carries with it more health risks than anyone suspected...
...The trade-off is what you'd expect: investing in market instruments will probably yield higher returns and give you much more flexibility, but prepaid plans, while earning relatively less, ensure that you will have what you need when you need it. "The discipline of savings is the key," says...