Anchor : As if you needed a reminder, there is less than a week left for you to finish your Christmas shopping. This year, many people are consciously trying to cut back on consumerism. For those looking for less materialistic ways of expressing the...
The business news starts with a great leap forward in Chinese accounting. China's economy turns out to be bigger than anybody thought. By switching to a better counting, accounting method, the Chinese have discovered 300 billion missing dollars in th...
Knight Ridder, the second largest newspaper chain in the country may very well be sold in the coming weeks. Its largest shareholder has demanded that the company be put up for sale even though its newspapers are all turning a profit. To commentator S...
With two-income households, soccer practice and glee club rehearsals, getting Mom and Dad and Heather and Zeke to sit down for dinner together isn't as easy as it was back in the days of Leave it to Beaver. But as Weekend Edition food essayist Bonny...
The legendary political economist Peter Drucker has died at age 95. Drucker wrote more than 3 dozen books and countless articles, but for such a prolific writer, he offered rather pithy advice. The most important thing is to know what you're good at,...
Infosnacking is the 2005 word of the year. It's chosen by the editors of Webster's New World College Dictionary. They define infosnacking as those stolen moments at work at which we sneak time to handle personal e-mail, Google sports scores, old frie...
It's Friday, and once again we bring you StoryCorps, the oral history project travelling the country that gives family and friends the chance to ask one another about their lives. Copies of the conversations go to the Library of Congress and excerpts...
I believe in honor, faith and service I believe that a little outrage can take you a long. . . . I believe in freedom of speech I believe in empathy I believe in truth Renee Montagne: On Mondays, we bring you our series, This I Believe. Short statem...
Lu Guanqiu owns and runs Wan Xiang. He is known as one of China's richest men, a self-made billionaire, who has come a long way from the days he ran a one-man bicycle repair shop. Yes, very long, very long and it is a(n) endless road. Lu has none of...
Many people in this country believe the United States and China are just beginning an epic economic battle. They argue that Chinese producers are so efficient and so cheap that they'll work their way up the manufacturing ladder until there aren't any...