Undergraduates spend more time with leisure and sports than studying. Economists can look at how students spend time in terms of a 'consumption vs. investment' tradeoff.
The secrecy around Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s selection of Cathleen P. Black to run the city’s schools highlighted his faith in business leaders and dislike of public debate.
Starting Thursday, Wal-Mart plans to offer free shipping on its Web site, a move that may create an expectation among consumers and a threat to smaller retailers.
AP - France vowed Wednesday to step up airstrikes on Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forces and acknowledged that it has military officers already working with Libyan rebels on the ground.
AP - More than 3,200 oil and gas wells classified as active lie abandoned beneath the Gulf of Mexico, with no cement plugging to help prevent leaks that could threaten the same waters fouled by last year's BP spill, The Associated Press has learned.
Wildfires have burned more than 1 million acres in Texas and destroyed 170 homes. "We're actually seeing Texas burn from border to border," an official said.
In a country where civilians live in chronic fear of ruler Moammar Gadhafi's troops, Libya's main opposition body has pleaded for an international military intervention to create a humanitarian path to protect residents of besieged cities.
Ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was complicit in shootings of anti-regime protesters during a period of upheaval in the country, a member of an official fact-checking commission said Tuesday.