July 23, 2008

Economy's Stuck, But Business Is Booming At Therapists' Offices; Mental Health Experts Say Financial Stress Taking A Toll

By: USA TODAY
Marilyn Elias

The struggling economy is hurting many Americans' mental health: Anxiety, depression, sleep problems and money-rooted marital conflicts are growing, experts around the USA say.

Requests for therapists increased 15% to 20% in the...

July 23, 2008

Bright Spot As Gas Prices Rise: Traffic Deaths Fall

By: Newsday (New York)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummeting, just as they did during the Arab oil embargo three decades ago.

July 22, 2008

Gas Prices Decline As Demand Slides; Oil Rises In Trading Over Fears Of A Tropical Storm's Effect In Texas.

By: Los Angeles Times
Ronald D. White, Times Staff Writer

Worries that Tropical Storm Dolly could become a hurricane that might threaten the Gulf of Mexico sent crude oil prices past $131 a barrel Monday after big losses last week.

July 22, 2008

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

By: Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School

Companies that cut health care costs without improving the overall value of care eventually pay a price in terms of employee absenteeism and chronic ailments. According to Harvard University professor and strategy expert Michael...

July 21, 2008

Working paper: A Replication Study of Alan Blinder's "How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?"

By: Working Knowledge, Harvard Business School

The movement of business activity from developed economies to developing economies—commonly called offshoring—has become the focus of heated debates. Behind these debates lies a pivotal question of scale: How much business...

July 17, 2008

Not Your Mother's Environmentalists - Porter Novelli Identifies a New Breed of 'Greenfluencers'

By: Porter Novelli

Research reveals that an unexpected subset of the U.S. population is leading the 'green' movement

July 22, 2008

A Housing Rescue Nears - But For Whom?

By: Christian Science Monitor
Gail Russell Chaddock Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

- As Congress heads into a critical week of votes on how to relieve America's home-foreclosure crisis, one of the toughest issues will be how to deal with the racial and ethnic dimensions of the problem. Minorities will be...

July 22, 2008

Toward A Type 1 Civilization; Along With Energy Policy, Political And Economic Systems Must Also Evolve.

By: Los Angeles Times
Michael Shermer, Michael Shermer is an adjunct professor in the School of Politics and Economics at Claremont Graduate University, the publisher of Skeptic magazine and a monthly columnist for Scientific American. His latest book is

Our civilization is fast approaching a tipping point. Humans will need to make the transition from nonrenewable fossil fuels as the primary source of our energy to renewable energy sources that will allow us to flourish into the...

July 22, 2008

Closing Starbucks Are Symbols Of Lost Luxury

By: Los Angeles Times
SANDY BANKS

Roby T. Chapel's history with Starbucks is long and sweet.

He can recall his first gourmet coffee drink, 10 years ago at a Starbucks in Beverly Hills. "It was a Caramel Macchiato, and I took it back to my office and nursed it...