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In large companies, there’s always an employee whose exact purpose seems a mystery. Sure, they’re pleasant and show up for work every day, but no one is quite sure what …

There’s a big difference between spending money and blowing money. It’s okay to spend money, provided you’re getting back good value. Unfortunately there are too many times we get busy, …

Zurich’s Swiss Re, the world’s second-largest reinsurer, has published its global ranking of cities under threat from natural disasters — and a US city is in the top 10. For the …

Americans have a long tradition of packing up and moving to find better opportunities. Covered wagons streamed west in the early 1800s, packed with people willing to brave the hazards …

Scientists at University of Rochester, Georgetown University, and the University of California Irvine, have developed a simple blood test that can predict the development of Alzheimer’s disease up to three years before …

Someone once asked singer Adam Ant why he was making a comeback. Baffled, the avant-garde New Wave singer replied, “I never went away.” With apologies to Mr. Ant for the …

See more Living in… posts by Bruce Haring. The Armenians may be viewed by outsiders as a somewhat melancholy people. You’d be, too, if you went through what they did. It’s a …

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness it is in your expecting evil before it arrives. — Seneca The tricks our mind plays on us.  One …

An anonymous California couple discovered $10 million in uncirculated gold coins buried under a tree on their property, according to Yahoo! News. The nearly 1,500 coins date from the latter …

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”  — William Butler Yeats Advanced education for America’s youth has become like a mill.  Young people are …