Foreign entrepreneurs in China Small is not beautiful It is hard for small businesses to break into the Chinese market ENTREPRENEURS do more with less, proclaimed Fiona Woolf this week on a visit to Shanghai. Lady Woolf, the current Lord Mayor of the...
Education and religion Falling away How education makes people less religiousand less superstitious, too JUST one extra year of schooling makes someone 10% less likely to attend a church, mosque or temple, pray alone or describe himself as religious,...
Business this week HewlettPackard decided to hive off its PCandprinter business and create a new company, Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, to focus on servers, cloud computing and big data. It will be run by Meg Whitman, HP's boss. When she became chief e...
This is AP News Minute. President Barack Obama addressed the annual gathering of the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday. He vowed to lead a coalition to end what he called the Islamic State militant group's network of death. His remarks come as the U...
Psychotherapy Expanding the shrinks The popularity of CBT is freezing out more traditional forms of therapy THE unexamined life may not be worth living, but the overexamined life can be difficult, too. Many people are turning to a relatively young br...
Ebola in Spain Europe's first victim A Spanish nurse who caught Ebola causes consternation across Europe Taking precautions, after the event FEAR spreads faster than disease. News on October 6th of a case of Ebola in Madrid, the first contracted outs...
The race for the Senate: Colorado High, tolerant and Republican? In a state that smiles on pot and same-sex marriage, Democrats are in trouble RECREATIONAL pot is legal in Colorado. So, from this week, is gay marriage. So you might think liberals wou...
Lexington The Ebola alarmists Stoking panic will not help America fight Ebola IN THE crowded field of Ebola alarmists, Rand Paul ofKentuckystands out. Before he was a Republican senator with presidential ambitions, he was an eye doctor. Apparently th...
The Liberal Democrats They shall overcome Facing electoral meltdown, why are the Lib Dems so cheerful? THE Liberal Democrats have every reason to be miserable. Some recent polls of voting intention have put them on 6%, about a quarter of their suppor...
Wedding insurance Prenuptial protection Underwriters are becoming as much a part of the big day as cake and flowers Sorry, your policy doesn't cover cold feet JUST as each wedding creates potential business for divorce lawyers, so each engagement giv...
