If you're reading this right now, you're probably already aware of how dramatic the effect of the Internet has been on American life. Email and paying bills online threaten the future of Postal Service and friendships are maintained not by mutual effort but by billion dollar conglomerates. One need only...

The first week of school is always hard. There's the adjustment back into academic routine, the planning out of one's goals and schedule, and then there are the reminders that time continues forward -- unfeeling and unstoppable. The start of each new school year has been an especially difficult experience...

NEW YORK -- When the Bronx Academy of Letters opened in 2006, its aging building was part school and part machine shop.

"We're a school that wasn't even supposed to be here," said Principal Anna Hall, 35, who began as the school's first teacher.

The South Bronx is the poorest...

When not winning races, IndyCar champion Scott Dixon reads to his two-year-old daughter Poppy. Her favorite books are “Goodnight Moon” and the Clifford series, but Dixon likes to read her stories about the birds of New Zealand. He's a kiwi, after all.

This afternoon, Dixon will read to a group...

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NEW YORK -- Seventy-five job applications. Forty cover letters. Twelve interviews. Zero job offers.

Since graduating from Wellesley College four years ago, Kayla Calkin, 25, has yet to get a break.

In May, Calkin completed a master's degree in...