Facebook at Age 5
The social networking site now boasts 250 million users, but has yet to make a single dollar in profit. Five years after its inception, a look at whether it can last another five.Facebook, Age 5 ...
Religious Right Searching for a Shepherd
In 2004, conservative evangelical leaders in Washington state were in full political force. In only a few short weeks, they gathered more than 20,000 people to Safeco Field to rally for traditional marriage, t...
Mental Health Records of Virginia Tech Shooter Found
The missing mental health records of Seung Hui Cho, who was responsible for the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007, mysteriously resurfaced last week in the home of the former director of the university's counselin...
Running Program Gets Homeless on Track
Until July 2007, Michael Solomon hadn't been for a run in 20 years. His wife had just died, and he was living at the Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission in Philadelphia when Anne Mahlum walked into the shelter look...
Atheists Choosing De-baptism
Up until last summer, Jennifer Gray of Columbus, Ohio, considered herself "a weak Christian" whose baptism at age 11 in a Kentucky church came to mean less and less to her as she gradually lost f...
Teen Pregnancy an Epidemic in Foster Care
What's tougher than being a pregnant teenager? Try being a pregnant teenager in foster care. Miranda Sheffield had pinballed in and out of more than 10 foster homes in Southern California by the time she became...
Worker Commits Suicide over Lost iPhone Prototype
An employee at a factory that makes iPhones in China killed himself after a prototype went missing. ...The dead worker, Sun Danyong, 25, worked in product communications at Foxconn Technology Group, a Taiw...
Gen Y Gets Nostalgic Over ‘Harry Potter’
Who says 20-somethings can’t look back with nostalgia?Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince is the sixth film in the mega-popular series, but it was released 12 years after the first Potter film. Tw...
Who’s News? Poll Says Jon Stewart is ‘Most Trusted’
What happened when Time magazine asked: "Now that Walter Cronkite has passed on, who is America's most trusted newscaster?"Your parents and/or grandparents may have gotten their daily news from Cronkite; but to...
Youth Culture Lesson: Facebook ‘Em, Danno
Facebook 'em, Danno: When Teens Reveal Too Much OnlineGet downloadable PDF.Get downloadable PowerPoint Presentation.About/DisclaimerWhat Happened:On July 1, The New York Times published a letter about an eighth...