What if the solution to American students’ stagnant performance levels and the wide achievement gap between white and minority students wasn’t more money, smaller schools, or any of the reforms proposed in recent years, but rather a new education system altogether? That’s the conclusion of a bipartisan group of scholars and business leaders, school chancellors […]

The contest between Vail and Aspen ski areas over which is the highest has nothing to do with mountain elevation. It’s all about the price of a lift ticket.

Over the last decade, researchers around the world have done hundreds of studies probing the value of video games and other forms of virtual reality to help children, and their parents, cope with medical-related anxiety and pain.

There are few areas in which technology can make such a great difference as in mobility assistance for the disabled and aged market.

The following is the 5th part of an exclusive Impact Lab series called the Twelve Trends of Christmas by Thomas Frey.  Title: The New, New Language Wars

According to the search engine Lycos, the top-rated search term for the year 2006 was "poker."

No whim is too ridiculous. No extravagance out of reach. Stratospheric City bonuses announced last week and an influx of international financiers have created a fresh echelon of British super-rich living lives of unheard of affluence.

Marketers and retailers of consumer electronics should make a stronger effort to reach young women, according to a study by Vertis Communications.

The serial rapist-robber began his attacks in east Harris County in April and his assaults have occurred every 30 to 60 days. But what makes this case so unusual is that women are not the target. So far the five victims have all been young, white males in their late teens or early 20s, mostly […]

One in four house-hunters are put off buying a home because of the neighbour’s garish Christmas decorations, according to a survey. (w/pics)

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