Millions of Americans live on the margins of the American economy, depending on the likes of payday lenders and pawnshops, who charge excessive interest rates and superhigh fees for their services.

Moderate housework can help women substantially to cut their risk of developing breast cancer, according to a study.

Michael Rogers:  Laptop computers now outsell desktops in stores; for the majority of consumers, the smaller devices serve perfectly well as their main computer.  That would have been hard to imagine back in the mid-Eighties, when IBM and Apple introduced their first primitive laptops, each weighing in at about twelve pounds. And for long after [...]

A Supreme People’s Court spokesman on Thursday reiterated China’s intentions to exert strict controls over the application of the death penalty ahead of January 1, 2007, the date the Supreme People’s Court takes back the power of death penalty review.

A US company claimed to have developed a weight reduction pill which works better and faster than existing drugs and also could cut the risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer.

Contrary to the customary downbeat drumbeat of economic decline, the most recent numbers actually show a pickup in manufacturing and a bottoming in the housing slump.

In California, driving with people in the trunk will be illegal. In Alabama, landlords will have to provide livable conditions for tenants. Illinois agencies will have to provide people to answer phones, not just automated messages.

The consumer package goods (CPG) industry generates nearly $2 trillion in sales in the US, and it is second to none when it comes to total advertising expenditures. Yet, although the industry will spend an estimated $15.6 billion to advertise online in 2006, that accounts for just 1% of its total advertising outlay.