FEATURES AND COMMENTARY
MED-women-binge-drinking
Millions of high school-aged girls and women binge drink, behavior that can have disastrous results including long-term health effects, the CDC warns in a report released Tuesday
MED-bilingual-brains
Neuroscientists have been discovering mounting evidence that being fluent in more than one language protects against age-related cognitive declines. But there's still the major question: Why?
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With "American Idol" returning to Fox next week, it seems Mariah Carey's been working on her look of disdain.
ENT-Taylor-Swift-Harry-Styles
Well, at least some One Direction fans should be happy. Although it seems like we were just talking about Taylor Swift and Harry Styles as they toured northern England for Swift's 23rd birthday, it appears their (puppy) love-fest has ended.
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As expected, Ryan Lochte's dipping a toe into the reality TV pool.
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He used the N-word and told racist jokes. He once said African-Americans were inferior to whites. He proposed ending slavery by shipping willing slaves back to Africa. Meet Abraham Lincoln, "The Great Emancipator" who "freed" the slaves.
TECH-New-TVs-CES
Televisions are getting wider and thinner, their edges shrinking to make room for displays that pack in more and more pixels. But the real evolution of the TV set isn't taking place with the glossy hardware. It's happening inside.
TECH-Qualcomm-CES-Keynote-2013
Mobile technology is no longer limited to laptops, smartphones and tablets. It's seeping into every corner of our lives, including television and movies, cars, the workplace, health care, education and eventually our bodies.
TECH-CES-Gaming-Tablet-Razer
Mobile gaming has become a staple for casual gamers looking for fun with friends or just a quick match while killing some time. Now, one hardware company thinks hard-core gamers are ready to take their action on the move, too.
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For the third year in a row, the DASH Diet Eating Plan has been named the best overall diet by U.S. News & World Report.
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If you use exfoliating soaps, you might not know those little beads may be made of plastic -- or think about what happens to them when they go down the drain. But it's on the minds of marine science researchers, as well as a major company.
COMMENTARY-Jones-share-economy
We are not living up to the promise of the American Dream. Even now, our leaders are talking about cutting, instead of creating jobs to grow our way out of the deficit. Congress is ignoring big problems, congratulating itself on avoiding a fiscal cliff of its own creation. The federal budget props up broken parts of our economic system -- big banks, big polluters and big defense contractors -- instead of investing in areas such as education and infrastructure that would benefit everyone.
COMMENTARY-felbab-brown-karzai-visit-
Afghan President Hamid Karzai is meeting this week with President Obama in Washington amid increasing ambivalence in the United States about what to do about the war in Afghanistan.
COMMENTARY-Antilla-Goldman-Stock
Nobody likes to pay taxes, so can you blame the good folks at Goldman Sachs & Co. for doing what they could to avoid the higher rates that kicked in on January 1? While the rest of us were donning our party clothes on New Year's Eve, the legal worker bees at Goldman were pushing the send button on 10 regulatory filings to the Securities and Exchange Commission.
COMMENTARY-Halpern-Gun-Research
Since the December 14 mass killing in Connecticut, we've seen a lot of finger pointing. Too many guns. Not enough guns. Powerful lobbyists. Insufficient mental health services. Discussion of possible explanations is often neither civil nor constructive, and based on a closed-minded and entrenched belief that those who disagree with us have their facts wrong.
COMMENTARY-Standen-Penn-NCAA
The federal lawsuit filed by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett on behalf of the state against the NCAA is politically smart. It is never a bad thing for a state lawmaker to stand behind the flagship university, especially when the lawmaker himself is under investigation for his alleged complicity in protracting the official inquiry of Jerry Sandusky. But legally, the lawsuit makes no sense.
