Frequent Family Meals Might Reduce Teen Substance Use

Past studies have shown that family meals provide many benefits, including offering a venue for parents to communicate with their adolescents about their daily activities, as well as monitor their moods and whereabouts."Parents who have regular meals with their adolescent...

Honda hits record quarter with new markets

The news comes a day after Ford posts its larger quarterly loss ever. Speculators say that consumers are buying more fuel effecient and most of the demand is coming from Asia and Brazil, while there is a decline in...

Over 40 million stressed at work

Stressed out at work?  You’re not alone; statistics show 40% of workers think their job is very stressful.  Another statistic shows ¼ of employees view their jobs as the number one stress in their lives....

The Media's Love Affair with Senator Barack Obama

A YouTube video clip, paid for by the McCain Campaign 2008, titled "You're Just Too Good To Be True. Can't Take My Eyes Off Of You." has raised questions about whether or not the sentiments...

San Diego Home Foreclosures Up 180% In One Year

DataQuick Information Systems of La Jolla reported yesterday home foreclosures were up 18 percent over May and a 180 percent increase over June 2007. New June notices of default dropped just  2% percent from May, but they were still up 93 percent from a year ago.

User-Made Games Will Make it to Xbox Live

I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this sort of thing, but right now Microsoft is the only gaming console offering users the chance to put their own games online - and keep most of the profits.With the market penetration Microsoft has (they sold over 500 million items over the...

Argentina’s protests around increased food taxes

Soaring food taxes are causing some serious political discords in Argentina. The President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and the Vice President Julio Cobo came head to head in the 16-hour televised debate on the...

German Inflation Hit Record High in June - 3.3 percent

Amazingly, everyone here seems to be hurting when it comes to food costs.  From grocery shopping on Monday I found the following (all prices in Eur) and just in time to confirm the article below:Cookies - Normally 0.69 - up to 1.09 Granola bars - normally 2.09- up to...

The United States Gets a Run for its Money

It has long since been known that the United States was is the most powerful nation in the world. Although this may be true, there has been much talk about the nation's economy becoming unstable. If the enconomy...

Zimbabwe inflation hits 2.2 million percent

Political uncertainty in Zimbabwe is proving costly to its economy. Soaring Inflation has been making all kind of records in Zimbabwe and this latest figure shouldn't surprise anybody.   " Zimbabwe's...

U.S. racial divide still strong

An interesting new survey has shown that perceptions about race relations still differ greatly between blacks and whites, with a majority of whites thinking race relations isn't a problem in US society and a majority...

8 out of 10 Americans Fear Iran will Have Nuclear Weapons Soon

Nearly eight out of 10 Americans (78%) think Iran is likely to soon develop nuclear weapons, and over half say the Iranians will not halt their program no matter who is elected president, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey. " Forty-three percent...

Obama ahead by 5

"Barack Obama holds a 5-point edge over John McCain in CNN's latest poll of polls. The Illinois senator is leading McCain 47 percent to 42 percent in an average of three recent national surveys. The poll of polls includes a Quinnipiac University survey released Tuesday that...

89 Percent Of Children's Food Products Provide Poor Nutritional Quality, Stud...

Parents beware! Food products that we give to our children may not be healthy and can only give them poor healthy, study finds.  "Most kids' foods provide poor nutritional quality, but packaging claims and healthy images could be misleading parents, according to a...

Chavez loosens terms of oil-supply pact

The admirer of fidel castro's cuba and anti-globalist dealing with oil-supply problems."Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez touted a pact delivering fuel to Caribbean nations and loosened the financing terms to aid...

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