As college students face mounting college debt, leading education officials yesterday proposed a new kind of higher education institution that would offer a "low-cost, no frills" bachelor's degree.No sports tea...

If the Obama campaign represented a sleek, new iPhone kind of future, the first day of the Obama administration looked more like the rotary-dial past.Two years after launching the most technologically savvy pre...

Almost everyone has used the phrase "It's all relative." A friend taught another a lesson recently. Here's how it went: "Hey John, how's it going?""Compared to what?" That's a question to stir one's thinki...

Children are spending twice as much time in front of a TV or computer screen as in the classroom, according to a new book on how big business targets young consumers aggressively though new media.It says that t...

Unlike much of the Bush crowd, which had a heavily southern tilt, many will be from either America's east or west coast -- the much derided 'bicoastal set of liberal elitists. The same may apply to the hundreds...

Last Spring, barnstorming across America with my atheist college roommate and our dialogical documentary Purple State of Mind, we felt a bit like presidential candidates. We engaged in heated debates on co...

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The Internet has made it much easier to connect for sexual hookups. In response, public health officials have been exploring ways to harness the online world for conducting safe-sex education and preventing the...

John Foley figures he has pretty much maxed out on explaining to African-American mothers why it's OK to call a black man the N-word -- as long as it's in a novel that is considered a classic.For years, English...

Although Facebook started as an online hub for college students, its fastest-growing demographic is the over-25 crowd, which now accounts for more than half of the site's 140 million active members. Why is Face...