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Retail gas prices are spiking to levels last seen in the heat of summer driving season, raising fears that consumers could cut back on holiday spending. The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline rose for the 13th straight day, adding sixth-tenths of a cent overnight to $2.671, according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. ...

Does the White House feel like a frat house?   The Obama White House has been battling a boys’ club image. The suspicion flared in recent weeks — and not for the first time — after President Obama was criticized by women’s advocates and liberal bloggers for hosting a high-level basketball game with no female players.

We match from opposite sides of the color wheel, we don't wear white after Labor Day (which is actually a pretty good rule unless you live in Miami) and we don't mix appliance colors in the kitchen. But whereas many rules are great for society and most are great rules of thumb, some rules are not so great for self-expression. Not ...

The official Obama family portrait was taken by Annie Leibovitz and boy is it adorable.

Two professors at the University of Southern California, have done a study showing that the dumber and less competent someone is, the more likely they are to yell and try to intimidate other people. “Power holders feel they need to be superior and competent. When they don’t feel they can show that legitimately, they’ll show it by taking people down a ...

In an extreme case that has made headlines across the nation, a court has been asked to consider whether a mother's love for her son — and that of his grandparents too — was so intense, it could be considered a form of child abuse. The case centers on the overprotective mother and grandparents of a 12-year-old boy known only as ...

I work at a busy music booking agency and we have a variety of characters in the music industry calling in. There are three of us who answer the phones, one of us started 3 months ago, myself who started not even 2 months ago, and another who started 2 weeks ago. The guy in question reps one of our artists ...

Bright, eager—and unwanted. While unemployment is ravaging just about every part of the global workforce, the most enduring harm is being done to young people who can't grab onto the first rung of the career ladder. ... For people just starting their careers, the damage may be deep and long-lasting, potentially creating a kind of "lost generation." Studies suggest that an ...

Man, college was hard. Between chugging beers, sleeping until noon, and occasionally doing homework I don’t know how I found time for anything else. It turns out that instead of trying to motivate myself I was taking the wrong approach - I just needed a personal assistant. One Georgetown University student recently posted an ad on the school’s employment board. In ...

Brian Stelter, who covers the television industry for the New York Times, reports that immediately after the Heene family’s experimental balloon lifted into the air, possibly carrying a six-year-old child, his father Richard Heene called Channel 9, KUSA, the NBC affiliate in Denver, to enlist its help in finding his son. The 6-year boy, Falcon Heene, was just found alive, according ...

Ivanka Trump, once dubbed the “world’s hottest boss,” has a new book out called The Trump Card, where she gives business advice to women. I have to admit that while I find most of the Trump family to be totally absurd, I kind of like Ivanka. She seems about as down-to-earth as someone with her pedigree can be, and the times ...

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you always got.” –Mark Twain There is something to be said for that go-to dinner or family recipe. Familiarity brings us comfort and everyone likes knowing what to expect. But if you seek change in your life maybe it’s time to shake it up a little in the kitchen. After all, ...

I skipped second grade. Actually, I completed first and second grade in the same year so technically I didn’t skip anything. But still, I was suddenly a year younger than my classmates and remember feeling totally weird in my own skin. I don’t know if you can recall those early years but to be in a different classroom with a different ...

How do Queen Bees and Mean Girls in the teenage years affect how we treat each other as adults in the workplace? Rosalind Wiseman says "Women need to know how to take seriously their own feelings of conflict and of anger, and then know how to communicate that to people—because what that is is an underlying belief that someone will not ...

So, the First Lady of the United States and the First Lady of Brazil sit down to dinner. Michelle Obama turns to her South American counterpart and says, "I'm going to hug you now — and then I'm going after you!" True story. Only Mrs. Obama was joking — sort of — as she recounted the scene from a dinner at ...

Everyone knows about sexy costumes for women, but costume makers have decided to take it farther. To sexy costumes for dogs. You can also get a sexy costume to match your dog. Fortunately for everyone, the sexy bee costume doesn't come in my dog's size, so we will not be wearing matching outfits this year.

Why do we love shoes that hurt us? In the workplace, heels are seen as a marker of professionalism. It's why so many of us come to work in our sneakers, flip flops or flats only to change into a pair of high heels upon arrival. We choose comfortable, wearable shoes to get us from point A to point B (smart!), ...

According to a news story from Reuters (I know! A news story!), about a third of American workplaces have free coffee available for employees. However, about fifty percent of those coffee-drinking employees say the coffee’s ‘tolerable’ and ten percent say it’s flat-out terrible. This would seem like a boon for Starbucks, Dunkin’ Donuts, and other coffee retailers, right? Nope. Thanks to ...

In this economy, it’s more and more common for people to take on second jobs or side gigs in order to make ends meet. One such man, Niclas Nilsson of Sweden, spent his days working at a personal care staffing agency. However, the schedule was somewhat erratic, and while Niclas loved his job he needed some additional income. He found an ...

Being in France has made me realize that I hold some incredibly naïve assumptions about French women and weight. In my mind, French women eat Camembert and Nutella and still look cute in leather leggings. In Mireille Guiliano's bestselling French Women Don't Get Fat, she claims that French women don't exercise that much, eat three-course meals, and don't, you know, get ...