By RONI CARYN RABIN Published: September 13, 2010 Atkins-style low-carbohydrate diets help people lose weight, but people who simply replace the bread and pasta with calories from animal protein and animal fat may face an…
By WALECIA KONRAD Published: September 17, 2010 BETSY BURTON feels as if she dodged a bullet. At 64 and a co-owner of the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, she has been in business…
By JENNA WORTHAM Published: September 12, 2010 Now, even on the Internet, it is not what you know but who you know. After a decade when search engines ruled supreme — tapping billions of Web…
By ELIZABETH WEIL Published: September 16, 2010 The most complicated form in print media is the textbook,” Josh Koppel of ScrollMotion explained to me. “You have a 1,000-page math text with 10,000 more pages of…
By MATT GROSS Published: September 15, 2010 SOMETIME back in 2000, Allen S. Rout, a systems programmer from Gainesville, Fla., posted a few photos of his 5-month-old son, Stephen, on his personal Web site. They…
By TODD WASSERMAN Published: September 18, 2010 AMY VERNON still recalls the first time, two years ago, when a story she posted on the social news site Digg became popular. She had promoted a blog…
Google User Experience Our aspirations The Google User Experience team aims to create designs that are useful, fast, simple, engaging, innovative, universal, profitable, beautiful, trustworthy, and personable. Achieving a harmonious balance of these ten principles…
SEO is an acronym for “search engine optimization” or “search engine optimizer.” Deciding to hire an SEO is a big decision that can potentially improve your site and save time, but you can also risk…
By Mary Bellis The Mall A shopping center, shopping mall, or shopping plaza, is the modern adaptation of the historical marketplace. The mall is a collection of independent retail stores, services, and a parking area,…
By STEPHANIE CLIFFORD Published: September 11, 2010 It used to be that designers showed clothes at Fashion Week to court the influential few, mainly the buyers and fashion editors who determined what styles would be…
By DIANA CERCONE Published: August 13, 2010 CHEFS and private cooking-class instructors say they are seeing a spike in requests for bachelorette cooking parties. Why are brides trading in their shot glasses for aprons and…
By ANNE RAVER Published: September 8, 2010 THE garden suffered through another heat wave last week: day after day in the high 90s and no rain. (Didn’t I say that a few weeks ago?) Hurricane…
Official information and services from the U.S. government Americans celebrate a variety of federal holidays and other national observances throughout the year. American holidays can be secular, religious, international, or uniquely American. With the wide…
By Diane Schmidt, About.com Guide Finding the best places to live takes a little research. Many companies and organizations have done a lot of the legwork for you, having compiled data and conducted surveys to…
By SETH SCHIESEL Published: September 12, 2010 The highest compliment I can pay Halo: Reach, set for release Tuesday for the Xbox 360, is to say that as soon as I finished it, I wanted…
By KEN BELSON Published: September 10, 2010 FOR all the reasons it may make sense to rent a car — a carless household facing a gaggle of errands, a temporary need for a second vehicle,…
By CHRISTOPHER CLAREY Published: September 11, 2010 This is the era of the screen — touch, wide, flat, etc. — and tennis is not even close to immune. The players’ lounge at the United States…
By JANET MORRISSEY Published: September 11, 2010 REBECCA AND TRENT DUPAIX of Eagle Mountain, Utah, spent a year searching for their dream home. The couple, who have five children, considered 15 to 20 houses before…
By GEORGE VECSEY Published: September 6, 2010 It’s Noah’s Ark time at the United States Open, with one Venus Williams and one Sam Querrey left amid the rising tide of Spaniards and Eastern Europeans. This…
By ROBERT PEAR Published: September 9, 2010 WASHINGTON — A new government study says President Obama’s health care law will have negligible effects on total national health spending in the next 10 years, neither slowing…
By BENEDICT CAREY Published: September 6, 2010 Every September, millions of parents try a kind of psychological witchcraft, to transform their summer-glazed campers into fall students, their video-bugs into bookworms. Advice is cheap and all…
By PHYLLIS KORKKI Published: September 11, 2010 Does earning a higher salary make you happier? It’s an issue that tugs at many of us: the tradeoff between a satisfying job and a satisfying paycheck. Students…
By TANZINA VEGA September 9, 2010 Google is rolling out a new advertising campaign on Thursday for its display advertising platform. The campaign, called Watch This Space, will run in advertising trade magazines and in other…
By NICK BILTON September 12, 2010 If you plan to log into your Facebook account and announce to the world that you’re heading to the beach for the weekend, you might want to append the status…
By STEVE LOHR Published: September 11, 2010 MODERN tools of data analysis — fast computers, smart software and vast troves of digital information — often open the door to new insights. Consider the subject of jobs…
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Published: September 8, 2010 SAN FRANCISCO — Google, which can already feel like an appendage to our brains, is now predicting what people are thinking before they even type. On Wednesday, Google…
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