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China has put to death two of the key players in a milk poisoning scandal that led to the deaths of six infants in 2007.
An internet romance that ended in the disappearance of a woman has left police with a homicide investigation but no evidence and no body.
A 14-year-old girl could be charged as an accomplice to the gang-rape of her ninth-grade classmate after she spoke to reporters last week.
Brain scans have been used in a murder trial for the first time ever to try to prove that the defendant is a psychopath.
A more intrusive iPhone worm than the recent “Rick Astley” hack is worrying Apple as it puts sensitive information under threat of exploitation.
A TV pay-per-view service is now available for the Nintendo Wii in Japan—but there’s no sign that it's heading stateside just yet.
Burma’s Muslim minority are fleeing the region in large numbers to live in self-made refugee camps and try to find transport to Malaysia.
A Chinese dissident who criticized the government after a school collapsed, killing thousands of children, has been sentenced to three years in jail.
A 13-year-old boy with learning difficulties spent 11 days in the New York subway because he thought his parents were mad at him.
If the title "Riverkeeper" sounds like a mythic, sacred charge worthy of Tolkien, that's because it is. Few natural phenomena have ever been as threatened by the forces of human […]
Americans shop too much and save too little. At least that's how it went before the economic crisis of 2008. Will we change our ways now? Probably not. That’s why […]
I came home from Sunday night's thrilling Major League Soccer championship game sure that I would finish my weekend by writing about the explosive aftermath of the World Cup qualifying match between Egypt […]
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The author of "Shoptimism’s" buying habits are irrational and wildly inconsistent.
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From lighting to pricing, Shoptimism author Lee Eisenberg offers tips on how to prevent impulse purchases.
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Lee Eisenberg, author of Shoptimism, debunks myths about males and females spending habits.
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We may spend money freely and often recklessly, but not without some feeling of anxiety or guilt.
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A conversation with the former editor-in-chief of Esquire and author of Shoptimism
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The now-millionaire remembers a time when he overdrafted his account.
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Aaron Patzer founded Mint.com to help people learn how to manage their personal finances. Here’s his advice on how to make sense of a confusing field.
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Aaron Patzer, founder of money managing site Mint.com, thinks our culture suffers from an addiction that forces us to buy.