Smartphone Theft
Economics Smartphones represent a $69-billion-a-year industry in the U.S., the DA notes. About half of that — some $30 billion a year — comes from replacing lost or stolen devices.
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Economics The Coca-Cola executive compensation plan that, according to some detractors, might dilute shareholders up to 16.6% and hand execs up to $24 billion worth of stock.
View ArticleWho Gets to Graduate?
Education More than 40 percent of American students who start at four-year colleges haven’t earned a degree after six years. If you include community-college students in the tabulation, the dropout...
View ArticleUnsold Cars
Automotive As it is, there are more cars than there are people on the planet with an estimated 10 billion roadworthy cars in the world today.
View ArticleRe-Thinking Monopoly
Games A game where arguing and backstabbing is part of the rules and the winner is hard to determine.
View ArticleRent or Buy
Economics The calculator keeps a running tally of the most common expenses of owning and renting. Big Gains Unlikely Home Price Indices Interactive
View ArticleLess Work More Play
Economics Sweden often stuns first-time visitors with its laid-back prosperity.
View ArticleThe Way North
Politics If there was one emotion that defined the experience of immigration for nearly everyone, if they were honest, it was ambivalence. Today is Day 19
View ArticleCheapest Vehicles In 2014
Automotive The Mazda and Lexus brands overall were named the cheapest brands of vehicles to own in the annual “2014 5-year Cost to Own” awards. Best Resale
View ArticleU.S. Oil
Automotive It’s time we put an end to this myth that the U.S. gets most of its oil from the Middle East.
View ArticleCalifornia’s San Joaquin
Food Trying to kayak (and walk) down the “most endangered” river in America.
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