New York-area Muslims and civil liberties advocates called Wednesday for investigations and hearings after a report said that in the years since the 9-11 attacks, city police have carried out covert surveillance on Muslims with the help of the Central Intelligence Agency.
Tibetan painter Samten Dakpa overcomes torture in his past to create his future. CNN's Allan Chernoff reports.
Painting -- simple painting -- caused Samten Dakpa to become a victim of terror.
Tim Sheahan lost a high-paying job and decided to start his own business.
People always talk about timing: "He was the right guy at the right time, so we got married." "I timed my investment perfectly -- right before the stock took off." "The timing was right and we sold our house in less than a month."
For me, music is about joy -- the complete release of emotion, exhilaration and all-encompassing freedom. It's so easy for us, especially as classical musicians who lock ourselves away from the world for hours at a time to perfect our craft, to forget that this music is really about others. It's about conveying a message.
Violinist Robert Gupta talks about what he learned from giving a violin lesson to a brilliant schizophrenic musician.
U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel on Tuesday responded to what he called an "inflammatory" New York Times article that questions the New York Democrat's ethics.
If you think you've been on a roller-coaster ride watching your
brokerage account, spend some time with the professional traders, platform
operators and stock-exchange executives who deal with stock prices on a
minute-by-minute basis
Jonathan Hash, a history teacher at Herbert Hoover High School in San Diego, is enthusiastic about the teaching career he began two years ago. But now he might lose his job because of a statewide budget crisis, and that could force him to leave teaching altogether.
The next time the kids balk at doing their math or science homework, tell them about Chrissie, Kevin, Marc, Dustin and Steph.
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on new technology that could help crime scene investigators solve cases faster.
Dental records can be a useful tool for identifying victims of plane crashes, earthquakes and other mass-casualty disasters, but it's a tedious process that can take months.
China and India will keep up their new role as magnets for corporate research in coming years not just because of their lower costs, but also because their universities are easy to partner with, a study said Thursday.
It was four o'clock on a Saturday afternoon in Mumbai, and I was off to a slum to talk to a eunuch.
Friday hasn't been business as usual for the nation's more than 7,500 Army recruiters, who are suspending operations for one day in the wake of allegations of misconduct.
SALEM, Ore. (CNN/Money) - That the world has grown smaller is as plain as labels on the foreign products we buy and as clear as the stilted English of people answering our customer service calls from the other side of the world.
A study by City University of New York professor Paul Attewell says that sending your kids to a prestigious high school--whether a private prep, urban magnet or wealthy suburban public school--can ...
Amid the tech carnage, there's one group celebrating: organized labor. The rout has given unions an opportunity to rally a part of the work force that was previously out of reach.
It's been a bang-up summer for CBS: With quarterly earnings rocketing skyward and its prime-time lineup leading the Nielsens, the company seems finally to be emerging from the hole dug for it by La...
Money Magazine: Jane Katzupdated: Tue Jun 01 1999 00:01:00
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In which Keeping Up semiproudly presents its almost annual (we forgot it the past two years) list of the ten most hootworthy events of the annum just ending. Back when this highly idiosyncratic act...
America's public colleges and universities still offer some of the best bargains in higher education, despite being caught in a painful squeeze. Demand has never been greater -- the nearly 600 stat...
It is no longer any secret that public universities can provide a solid education -- in some cases rivaling what students can get at elite private institutions -- at a bargain price. During the 198...
Funny thing about smoking. It really does seem to be getting quite unpopular, especially among the intellectual classes, who just go on getting more and more agitated about the need to stop the wee...
Fortune: ON THE RISEupdated: Mon Jul 31 1989 00:01:00
LEW FRANKFORT, 43 COACH LEATHERWARE INC. When the founder of this handbag company approached Frankfort, then the commissioner of New York City's agency for child development, it wasn't to talk poli...
Claiming to have big news to impart, we now return to the intertwined subjects of smoking and taxes and ''elasticity.'' Two weeks ago, your correspondent was reviewing the Surgeon General's latest ...
Money Magazine: ELDERHOSTEL CATCHES ONupdated: Mon Apr 11 1988 00:01:00
THE EIGHTIES have witnessed an extraordinary trend that is drawing tens of thousands of retirees to college campuses for the sheer joy of stretching their minds. Many of them are participating in E...
''Why must we learn this stuff, and where are we ever going to use it?'' According to Alfred S. Posamentier, professor of mathematics education at New York's City College, that question endlessly h...
We remember being favorably impressed by a study, published five years ago by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), demonstrating that you could substantially reduce smoking by using the...
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