Although many people think of a heart attack as a painful, sometimes fatal event, there are some heart attacks that go entirely unnoticed.
Most of the mobile homes in the U.S. are located in the south, where land is more plentiful, the weather is warmer, and rural poverty is higher.
Think a little spanking won't do much harm to kids? New research says the effects can be long-lasting.
We are creatures of habit; we love a good routine because doing the same old same old doesn't take much mental effort. But getting stuck in certain ways of thinking can hinder our ability to both enjoy and respond effectively to new situations. Like a body, the mind needs regular stretching to stay agile and resilient.
Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. FedEx's Fred Smith. The image of the entrepreneur as whiz kid has serious currency in American business lore. But according to a new study from the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City think tank that studies entrepreneurship, that image is a myth.
Michael Phelps, who scored his fifth gold medal at the world championships in Rome, Italy, last weekend, has a body that frequently propels him to world record speeds in the pool.
A Duke University official is accused of offering his 5-year-old adopted son for sex on the Internet, according to the FBI and court documents in the case.
Matthew Fitch learned it the hard way: Sometimes you've got to look -- twice! -- before you leap.
As bleak as the U.S. economic situation may be, American chief financial officers are more optimistic about recovery than their European counterparts.
A common perception among many who have followed the recent banking and stock market crises is that the big financial players have been reckless, splashing large amounts of other people's money on half-understood, risky schemes.
Although many people think of a heart attack as a painful, sometimes fatal event, there are some heart attacks that go entirely unnoticed.
Most of the mobile homes in the U.S. are located in the south, where land is more plentiful, the weather is warmer, and rural poverty is higher.
Think a little spanking won't do much harm to kids? New research says the effects can be long-lasting.
We are creatures of habit; we love a good routine because doing the same old same old doesn't take much mental effort. But getting stuck in certain ways of thinking can hinder our ability to both enjoy and respond effectively to new situations. Like a body, the mind needs regular stretching to stay agile and resilient.
Bill Gates. Steve Jobs. FedEx's Fred Smith. The image of the entrepreneur as whiz kid has serious currency in American business lore. But according to a new study from the Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City think tank that studies entrepreneurship, that image is a myth.
Michael Phelps, who scored his fifth gold medal at the world championships in Rome, Italy, last weekend, has a body that frequently propels him to world record speeds in the pool.
A Duke University official is accused of offering his 5-year-old adopted son for sex on the Internet, according to the FBI and court documents in the case.
Matthew Fitch learned it the hard way: Sometimes you've got to look -- twice! -- before you leap.
As bleak as the U.S. economic situation may be, American chief financial officers are more optimistic about recovery than their European counterparts.
A common perception among many who have followed the recent banking and stock market crises is that the big financial players have been reckless, splashing large amounts of other people's money on half-understood, risky schemes.
If you're middle-aged or older, a 10-minute walking test can give you and your doctor a pretty clear picture of whether you are at higher risk of dying during the next few years compared with other people your age, according to a large new analysis of data showing that cardiorespiratory fitness is intimately linked with the risk of dying of just about any cause.
Have at least $68,000 to spare? If so, you may be in the running to join an exclusive group of individuals who have had their complete genome sequenced.
It's the season of brackets, beer and, of course, basketball.
John Hope Franklin, a revered historian and scholar on issues of race and the South, has died, Duke University said Wednesday.
The practice of moving research involving human subjects from wealthy countries to less wealthy countries has grown in recent years, raising a number of ethical and scientific issues that need to be addressed, researchers said in a journal article Wednesday.
All around the world, businesses are taking a long, hard look at their future plans, particularly any ambitious schemes to expand or restructure. Stock markets are in turmoil, banks in crisis and credit increasingly tight.
Sen. Edward Kennedy announced in May 2008 that he was suffering from a brain tumor, a malignant glioma, in his left parietal lobe. He had surgery at Duke University in June 2008.
Since the late 1980s, Nike has been telling us, "Just Do It!" If only we simply needed a sneakered kick in the butt.
Reading a book may not burn many calories, but the right material may help kids shed pounds
As some of the world's largest banks teetered on financial demise, college seniors and recent alums had more on their minds than what it meant for their financial aid and student loans.
Women typically get heart disease much later than men, but not if they smoke. In fact, women who smoke have heart attacks nearly 14 years earlier than women who don't smoke
Oil exploration in the Amazon rain forest represents the latest, perhaps greatest, threat to preserving what remains of the world's largest remaining tropical wilderness, scientists said Wednesday
A prostate cancer study that could change how doctors treat some patients found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn't spread
A new study says gentrification isn't a bad word, and that on average, a changing neighborhood can be a boon for its residents
A new study shows that patients don't need doctors to help control their blood pressure -- they're better off taking care of it at home
Economic woes are expected to continue until at least mid-2009, and things may get worse before they get better, according to a quarterly survey of chief financial officers.
Checked out the bestseller lists lately? In February you would have spotted motivational expert Marci Shimoff's "Happy for No Reason," which claims to teach you "how to experience sustained happiness for the rest of your life." In March came "The Geography of Bliss" by journalist Eric Weiner, a travelogue of places on Earth where people are the happiest. Both of these follow on the heels of "Stumbling on Happiness" by Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbert, which has been translated into 20 languages.
A blood test may one day be able to predict how a smoker will respond to two popular methods of kicking the habit
On the question of whether recent immigrants assimilate as quickly as previous waves, many Americans exhibit short fuses -- and even shorter memories.
A new study shows that people with lower IQs benefit from complex mental activity during their careers by avoiding brain deterioration
Newsflash for rock stars and teenagers: It turns out everything doesn't go downhill as we age -- the golden years really are golden
A large study offers the strongest evidence yet that a diet the government recommends for lowering blood pressure can save people from heart attack and stroke
Even as more of them survive their early years, premature babies can have health problems later in life, new research shows
It's days like today that will make many investors wish they stayed in bed.
Almost 40 members of Duke University's men's 2006 lacrosse team are suing the school and the city of Durham, North Carolina, their attorney announced Thursday.
For years, political scientists assumed our political leanings came from the way we were raised and the company we keep. You're a screaming liberal? Must be because you were raised in a household full of screaming liberals. You're an arch conservative? Must be because of that college you went to.
The basketball rivalry between Duke and North Carolina is the fiercest blood feud in college athletics. To legions of otherwise reasonable adults, it is a conflict that surpasses sports; it is locals against outsiders, elitists against populists, even good against evil. It is thousands of grown men and women with jobs and families screaming themselves hoarse at 18-year-old basketball geniuses, trading conspiracy theories in online chat rooms, and weeping like babies when their teams - when they - lose.
Everyone feels guilty from time to time, but being consumed with compunction can suck the joy out of life. Here are 6 simple strategies for relieving the pressure
Former UCLA head football coach Karl Dorrell is drawing interest from Duke University, SI.com has learned.
New research shows the adage "what doesn't kill us makes us stronger" doesn't apply in treating breast cancer.
One of the summer's biggest stories carried the headline "Weight Gain Is Contagious!" Sensational? Sure, but based on some pretty good science.
The weather can affect your travel, your mood and apparently the size of your family.
Labor Day, Memorial Day and the Fourth of July are the most popular days to cook outside on the grill says the Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Asssociation. Americans grill with a passion, the group notes, with eight out of 10 U.S. households owning a grill or smoker and half use it more than four times a month.
Apple Inc.'s flashy new iPhones may be jamming parts of the wireless network at Duke University, where technology officials worked with the company Wednesday to fix problems before classes begin next month
With college sports on summer hiatus, SIOC took some time to answer reader questions.
While being fat increases your chances of a heart attack, some studies suggest a puzzling paradox: Obese people seem have a better chance of surviving one
Tucked between the Blue Ridge Mountains and the beaches of the Carolina coast, Raleigh boasts a mild climate, award-winning public schools, and a thriving biotech industry, all of which helped this city of 360,000 attract 12,000 new residents last year - and lots of visitors.
Duke University has reached an undisclosed settlement with three former lacrosse players who were falsely accused of rape, the school announced Monday.
Maybe the U.S. isn't falling as far behind other nations in math and science education as business leaders fear. A new study suggests that American universities are luring more entrepreneurial talent from overseas than many think, fueling a boom in tech startups here.
So what was the Duke lacrosse rape case anyway? A hoax? A failure to speak truth to power? A journalistic breakdown? Or was that year-long academic, civic, athletic and sociological trainwreck indeed what North Carolina attorney general Roy Cooper branded a "tragic rush to accuse"? Take your pick: All kinds of labels got tossed around in the wake of Cooper's dismissal Wednesday of all charges against the accused players. And why not? For so long, the team and the events at that infamous March 13, 2006 party had been used as a vessel for so many different themes -- Racism! Power! Privilege! Sexism! -- that it's only fitting to find the endgame just as cluttered. But the fact is, with Cooper's extraordinary statement that Reade Seligmann, Collin Finnerty and David Evans are not just "not guilty" but "innocent" of the charges of sexual assault and kidnapping, the need for such puffery dissolved. Everything in Durham got smaller. Nearly everything seemed clear.
Free of sexual offense and kidnapping charges, three steely-eyed former lacrosse players at Duke University called Wednesday for reforms in the justice system and restraint in the media.
When Rudy Giuliani was first inaugurated as New York City's mayor in January 1994, his son, Andrew, then a rambunctious, chubby-cheeked 7-year-old, stole the show by imitating his father as he was sworn in and joining him, quite uninvited, at the podium.
Whether you're scratch or a 22-handicapper, golf can make your hands tremble, knees wobble and another part of your anatomy feel a little tight. Fear not -- you're about to become oblivious to pressure, make money putts and be known to friends and foes as the guy they just can't beat.
MBA students might be some of the cleverest and hardest-working going, but according to a new survey they also have another, more unwelcome distinction -- the most likely to consider cheating.
Solar-powered showers, biometric root beer dispensers and waterless urinals. The dorms of the future are already here.
An era in American broadcasting history will come to an end before the decade is out.
Though they may have left their textbooks behind when school ended, kids at Harlem RBI, a youth development program in East Harlem, New York, have no plans to leave behind what they have learned over the past nine months.
Police said Friday they did not pursue prior rape allegations by the woman at the center of the Duke University rape case because she apparently did not provide the additional details they requested.
Duke University pulled the plug on its men's lacrosse team due to allegations of sexual assault by some of the team members. But Duke hasn't removed the team's t-shirts from its campus stores.
Duke University has suspended two of its lacrosse players who were arrested Tuesday on rape and kidnapping charges, a source familiar with the investigation said Wednesday.
It wasn't long ago when kids used to rave about their radios and CD players.
I have good news and bad news. The good news is that income inequality in the U.S. -- after 30-plus years of steadily increasing -- may be decreasing. The bad news is why that trend is reversing. I...
A bit of good news
With time and commercial pressures pushing demand for short executive education courses, debate continues about whether open or customized versions deliver the best value for participants.
As companies throughout the world strive to improve performance and boost growth, attention is focusing on the potential economic benefits of professional executive education.
Dylan Lauren is a self-proclaimed kid in a candy shop. Luckily for her, she owns it.
Scientists have grown new blood vessels with cells from sick older people -- the type of patients most likely to need such transplants if the technique is perfected.
A New York federal judge will soon greenlight a plan to return $440 million to investors who bought stock based on tainted Wall Street research.
The Federal Reserve hinted last week the economy might have a new enemy: Inflation.
Three years have passed since Enron Corp. imploded and a tough state attorney general launched the first of many high-profile cases that have rocked Wall Street and captains of industry.
As Hurricane Frances bears down on the United States, weather trackers are sounding the alarm. Yet Frances may be first in a series of massive, powerful storms to march across the Atlantic in coming years.
Two years after Sarbanes-Oxley was passed, accounting has gotten a lot better, right? Well, not exactly, at least according to two new polls of CFOs. A recent survey by CFO Magazine found that sinc...
From sea turtles to whales to dolphins and birds, hundreds of thousands of animals die each year because they become entangled in fishing gear.
I don't like reading the business news that much these days. A lot of the time it's just the same old thing dressed up for the new millennium. Mergers driving mass consolidation. Unfriendly acquisi...
If you show people a sequence of anything -- numbers, colors, shapes, letters, faces -- and tell them that the arrangement is random, they will insist on believing that they can predict the next item in the series. Examples are everywhere: We know that a baseball player is due for a base hit, we're sure that our next roll of the dice will be a seven, we can tell that our lucky number will be the winner in this week's lottery.
Partly because of top educational facilities like Duke University (pictured above), North Carolina's Raleigh/ Durham/Chapel Hill area was No. 1 in MONEY's eighth annual ranking of "The Best Places ...
The French darkly call it le troisieme age, or the third age. Canadians cheerily refer to it as les adolescents recicles, or recycled teenagers. But if you are like most Americans, you probably vie...
News reports ((describe)) negotiations . . . between Duke University's men's basketball coach, Mike Krzyzewski, and Nike, the athletic-shoe manufacturer . . . It has been common practice among big-...
Like a lot of people harboring unkind thoughts about labor unions, the present writer was influenced by the work of H. Gregg Lewis, a somewhat legendary figure who died the other day at 77. Lewis e...
Graduating MBAs aren't the only ones after big bucks. Business schools want % money too, and some are ready to rename themselves after you -- provided you can meet the asking price. You're too late...
Come 100 insurance companies now offer coverage for long-term care in a nursing home (or, in some cases, the patient's own house). Although it may seem like essential protection against admittedly ...
Lesson No. 1 at John Brooks Fuqua's personal school of business: Don't use your own money or your own brains to get ahead. Use someone else's. It worked for J. B. Fuqua. He grew up on a Virginia to...
What means the news from Harvard? We allude of course to the titanic struggle over union representation for the university's mostly female technical and clerical workers. Prexy Derek Bok was widely...
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