The economy is in a slump, jobs are hard to come by and unemployment is high - those are a given these days. So how can we prepare our youth for an uncertain future? That's what the folks at a local charter school are working on.
When Beverly Bond started the organization Black Girls Rock!, her goal was to empower young girls of color and give them better images than the often negative depictions seen in the media.
A high school teacher won France's top literary prize Wednesday for his first novel, which deals with France's colonial wars in Algeria and Southeast Asia.
The challenge of how to effectively work with difficult co-workers is a universal issue. This is a very different scenario than having to deal with a difficult boss or a challenging customer.
The owners of a new taxi service in town that caters to the four-legged crowd have joined the roster of local entrepreneurs who have found a niche to fill amid the down economy.
We've all seen SWAT in action either on the news or fictionalized on TV and in movies, but what is it really like for the officers who call it their job?
Sitting in a cubicle farm five days a week can drive a person crazy. For a lot of people, however, a chunk of those 40 hours is taken up with Facebook, Twitter, texting and avoiding ones boss. And, of course, looking like you’re working.
Science, I thought the jury was still out on you. But now I know that you're on our side. Because you have finally maybe established what I've always thought could possibly be true -- that browsing the 'Net while at work was actually a good thing.
Google is introducing more technological tricks to simplify Internet searching and give people another reason to surf the Web on its Chrome browser.
You can now scan Facebook at work and look extremely mathematically busy at the same time.
Publisher Bluewater Productions Inc. said Monday it will bring a 32-page biography of the iconic CEO to comic book shops, bookstores and online retailers Aug. 24.
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