Nowadays, while competitive salaries and advancement opportunities
still rank high on the list of job priorities, lavish perks like posh
vacations, gourmet cafeterias and concierge services are inching their
way up the importance scale.

Taser International is about to begin production on a projectile that
can disable someone up to 98 feet away with a quick blast of
electricity.

A lemon tree that bears 11 different kinds of fruit is earning attention for a resident here who has had it growing in his garden for years.

Cyclists have been waiting a long time for this one. Based on a 1490s
sketch by Leonardo da Vinci, The Ride’s rear hub mimics an infinite
number of gears, rather than the mere 21 offered by the usual
chain-yanking transmission.

The U.S. dollar fell across
the board in 2007 and suffered the deepest losses against the
Canadian dollar, among the world’s most heavily traded major
currencies.

Resist the urge to say you will "wordsmith" your list of New Year’s
resolutions rather than write one. And don’t utter, "It is what it is"
when you fail to meet your first goal. Those are two of the 19 words or phrases that appear in Lake Superior
State University’s annual List of Words Banished from the Queen’s
English […]

For the last three years, China has been the financier that kept the
American government well funded. In 2004, it bought a fifth of the
Treasury securities issued, a proportion that rose to 30 percent in
2005 and to 36 percent in 2006.

China added 85
million kilowatts of power generating capacity from January to November
this year to fuel its double-digit economic growth, according to the
China Electricity Council (CEC).