How to fix college
How to fix college (Nate Shron/Getty Images) So you’re considering college but don’t have the dough. Or maybe you’re out of college now and still don’t have the dough. You’re not alone: In the past 30 years, the cost of a college degree has risen 1,120 percent and the number of people taking out loans [...]
May 23, 2013
China’s Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals
China’s Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals By Lee Chyen Yee and Umesh Desai HONG KONG (Reuters) – Lenovo Group Ltd‘s bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall [...]
May 23, 2013
Families remember young tornado victims
Families remember young tornado victims MOORE, Okla. (AP) — Nine-year-old Sydney Angle was “everywhere at once” when she was out on the softball field. Kyle Davis, 8, was nicknamed “The Wall” because of his size and presence on the soccer field. JaNae Hornsby, also 9, was the life of the party. The three were among [...]
May 23, 2013
China’s Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals
China’s Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals By Lee Chyen Yee and Umesh Desai HONG KONG (Reuters) – Lenovo Group Ltd‘s bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall [...]
May 23, 2013
China’s Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals
China’s Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals By Lee Chyen Yee and Umesh Desai HONG KONG (Reuters) – Lenovo Group Ltd‘s bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall [...]
May 23, 2013
Nearly all US states see hefty drop in teen births
Nearly all US states see hefty drop in teen births NEW YORK (AP) — The nation’s record-low teen birth rate stems from robust declines in nearly every state, but most dramatically in several Mountain States and among Hispanics, according to a new government report. All states but West Virginia and North Dakota showed significant drops [...]
May 22, 2013
China’s Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals
China’s Lenovo buys and diversifies to outshine PC rivals By Lee Chyen Yee and Umesh Desai HONG KONG (Reuters) – Lenovo Group Ltd‘s bold acquisitions in its flagship PC business, a foray into mobile gadgets, and a relatively light debt load are setting it apart from PC rivals as industry shipments take their steepest fall [...]
May 22, 2013
Firefighters unprepared for Texas blast
Firefighters unprepared for Texas blast By M.B. Pell, Ryan McNeill and Janet Roberts WEST, Texas (Reuters) – The fertilizer-plant explosion that killed 14 and injured about 200 others in Texas last month highlights the failings of a U.S. federal law intended to save lives during chemical accidents, a Reuters investigation has found. Known as the [...]
May 22, 2013
What’s next for the immigration bill?
What’s next for the immigration bill? Elena Marquez, center, and others at a rally to call on Congress to pass immigration reform. (Joe Raedle/Getty … It’s been a good week for proponents of immigration reform. The sweeping bill that seeks to legalize most of the country’s 11 million unauthorized immigrants was passed by the Senate Judiciary [...]
May 22, 2013
Apple, former Washington wallflower, now at center of tax fight
Apple, former Washington wallflower, now at center of tax fight By Andy Sullivan, Gabriel Debenedetti and Poornima Gupta WASHINGTON (Reuters) – For years, Apple Inc kept a low profile in Washington as it grew into one of the most valuable companies in the world. Now the iPad maker has taken the lead, perhaps inadvertently, on [...]
May 22, 2013