Alicia Thomas, 20, had it all planned out: career at a nonprofit, married by 24, mortgage by 26.

The so-called underwear bomber broke into that paradise. Just months before, Senator Edward Kennedy’€™s death interrupted Obama’€™s Martha’€™s Vineyard getaway. The Iraq troop drawdown last August kept him busy on the Vineyard, as well. It’€™s a small wonder folks think he’€™s entitled to at least a working vacation.

If there’€™s one bright spot in the sluggish recovery, it’€™s the record level of profits at businesses. But with renewed worries over the economy and turmoil in the markets, the question is whether those companies will finally start using that money to hire or whether they will continue to hunker down.

When Prime Minister David Cameron told Parliament yesterday he would turn to Boston for lessons in quelling angry riots in London, he caused some head-scratching on this side of the pond.

A growing body of evidence suggests that sedentary office workers and other inactive people are at a relatively high risk of dying early. Sedentary people have elevated levels of biomarkers linked to cardiovascular disease, including insulin, glucose, and triglycerides. And research in animals has shown that levels of an enzyme responsible for breaking down fat […]

Given the dismal state of the economy these days, internships are becoming an increasingly important part of student life.

MOHAMMED SAEED HARIB is the creator of “€œFreej”€, the first 3D animation show to come from the Middle East. Since premiering in 2006, the show has gained the region-wide, cross-generational popularity of an Arab “Simpsons”. This month sees the start of series four, timed to coincide with Ramadan.

The events surrounding the police’s part in a British man’s death catalyzed riots that quickly spread in England this week. Although race tensions seem to influence the rioting, unemployment, cuts to public programs and a stale economy have factored in, too.

Six days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Major League Baseball returned to the field with a new ritual. During the seventh-inning stretch, a moment typically reserved for “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” another song played at parks around the country: “God Bless America.”

Seen from America, the mayhem on the streets of Britain has more in common with “wilding” than rioting of the type that destroyed US cities such as Detroit and Newark in the 1960s.

The Martha’s Vineyard Summer Institute concludes its regular season this weekend with a pair of musical programs which, though quite different, are based on the same premise: that while great music is timeless and able to stand on its own, the experience of that music can be greatly enriched when you know the story of […]

Attendance at summer orientation for incoming college students and at least one parent was mandatory. Yet, as soon as we arrived, they separated us. Different dorms a few blocks apart — one with air conditioning for the people presumably footing the bill, one without. Separate schedules jam-packed with similar PowerPoint presentations and evening activities.