An increase in the number companies who hold your personal information is the best guarantee for safeguarding that information.

High school seniors hoping for an advance nod from Harvard University have swamped it with an unusually large group of early applications that represent the most economically and ethnically diverse set of students in the school’s history.

The most psychologically correct holiday of the year is upon us.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is championing a U.S.-led global effort to thwart HIV/AIDS, even as the Obama administration pursues trade policies that critics warn will curtail access to life-saving drugs.

Another man with his own theories about the killer is three hours’ drive up the coast from New York. Dr Jack Levin sits in his cluttered office, preparing for a lecture he’s giving tomor­row to his criminology students.

Shoppers are feeling the pinch of higher food prices at the supermarket, and most consumers are convinced they will be shelling out even more cash for groceries next year.

It was September and the 17-year-old at East Boston High School was entering her junior year. It would be a pivotal time in her education, her counselors told her, a yardstick for college entrance.

Oil prices back above $100 a barrel, rising U.S. exports and falling stocks of distillates, and growing demand for both heating oil and diesel may prove to be a toxic mix for energy consumers this winter.

As I walked into the CBS Broadcast Center at 5:00am this morning, I passed a group of Occupy Wall Street protestors, as they were about to start their “Day of Action.” I hollered over and said, ‘What’s your mission today?’ and the response was the same mantra that the group has been espousing for weeks: […]

Study abroad is on the rise again with 4% more American students studying abroad than last year.

After graduating from Carnegie Mellon in 2005 Jenny Gammello spent two years in New York City struggling to launch an acting career – ­before deciding to make her peace with grown-up job reality €”and study for the LSAT. But a funny thing happened on Gammello’€™s way to law school. She answered a Craigslist ad from […]

More and more employers are demanding that workers who smoke, are overweight or have high cholesterol shoulder a greater share of their health care costs, a shift toward penalizing employees with unhealthy lifestyles rather than rewarding good habits.