Harvard's announcement on Dec. 10th that it will provide financial aid to families making as much as $180,000 per year, echoed today by Yale, has been greeted with nearly universal acclaim. (The only detractors seem to be those who didn't get in.) The move sets a new standard...

Mattel's recall today of 967,000 toys for lead paint, including the Elmo Tub Sub and the Dora the Explorer Backpack (how do you get lead paint in a backpack?) is prompting the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to take a harsher look at the Chinese factories where the toys were...

We all know what to do with spam--gleefully delete it to put off answering our real email or get a better filter--but what do we do with spam from our friends? Perhaps it's better to call it something different, because it's not spam, exactly, but those things that our friends...