“Creative, organizational and effective.” Those aren’t the words used to describe the employee of the year, they’re 2011’s top three overused buzzwords, according to LinkedIn. Nicole Williams, LinkedIn’s connection director, recommends removing these from your résumé immediately. We could provide a list of words to never use on your résumé, but it would be inexact. […]

In today’s Academic Minute, Dr. Carey Rappaport of Northeastern University explains the development of a new generation of body scanners that will provide an increase in security and privacy for airline passengers.

The Shore Plaza East apartments have a stunning skyline view of downtown Boston across the harbor: Waves lap at the foot of the eight-story building; sailboats carve foam trails in the water.

A federal judge in Springfield has ruled that Netflix and other online providers that serve the public are subject to federal disabilities laws, a decision that could require TV shows and movies streamed over the Internet to include captions for the deaf or other accommodations.

Abortion will still be legal in Mississippi next month. It’s just that women who live there probably won’t be able to get one.

The drug company Merck is in hot water for using cartoon characters and stickers to market grape-flavored children’s allergy medicine.

Cases of human trafficking are rarely prosecuted in the US despite a recent surge of federal and state laws aimed at combating modern day slavery, a report released Wednesday found.

Barcelona and the Catalonia region of Spain came to Northeastern University to give Boston a lesson on how to invest in regional transportation.

“Polka dot, afro” has been punctuating children’s commercial television about every five minutes for the last month, it seems to me, but a letter just filed with the Federal Trade Commission has a far more serious complaint about the marketing of Madagascar 3: That it links the movie’s comic animal characters with an over-the-counter drug […]

Public health advocates are charging that Merck’s entertainment product tie-in campaign for children’s Claritin with the movie Madagascar 3 is deceptive and dangerous because it could cause children to confuse medicine with candy.

Vicki Kennedy and Senator Scott Brown – representatives of the old and new guard in Massachusetts politics – reached an ­impasse in an escalating battle of wills Tuesday, all but dooming a high-profile US Senate debate in the fall.

This week’s Twitter roundup of happenings in the business school world includes a pledge by B-school deans to pay more attention to sustainability in management courses, an MBA alum featured in a prominent department store ad campaign, and an undergraduate business student who’ll carry the Olympic torch next month.