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Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), the head of the Republicans campaign committee, caused a stir at last night's Rules Committee meeting when he suggested that treating female-related health conditions was comparable to insurance-company imposed restrictions on smokers. "Why should a woman pay more than a man?" asked New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone, according to the Courthouse News Service. "Well, we're all different," ...

We created the Health Care Reform Debate IQ quiz to test how much you know about the current debate about health care reform. Here's the answers! h4. Don't cheat! If you haven't taken the Health Care Reform Debate IQ quiz yet, go take it first! See answers on the next page... [page] 1) To be eligible for Medicare, you have to ...

LONDON (AP) — A British consumer air travel group says airlines across the world are losing more bags as passenger numbers rise. Britain's Air Transport Users Council said Tuesday that more than 40 million bags were misplaced by airlines in 2007. Of those more than 1 million pieces of luggage were irretrievably lost. The council said in a report that the ...

What with the glass ceiling, the wages and the child care difficulties it's not as if the problems women face in the workplace haven't been well-documented. Now there's a major, and somewhat unexpected, addition to the list - the female boss. University researchers say women who have to answer to a female supervisor feel more stressed than if their superior is ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today the release of a DHS-developed detection tool that can be used by the federal government, commercial vendors, state and local governments, and critical infrastructure owners and operators to scan their networks for the Conficker/Downadup computer worm. The department's United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) developed the tool that assists mission-critical partners ...

Let’s face it, Dear Breeder. Gay or straight, the holidays are a stressful time for anyone. A time when public ceremony and private obligation come crashing together, forcing us to spend inordinate amounts of time with family we can’t stand, friends we don’t respect, and—worst of all—co-workers we’d just as soon spit on as share a cup of holiday cheer with. ...

'A new study is giving computer savvy users a look at the "other" users' behavior.' - You often wonder how users fall for seemingly obvious ploys - you know, the letter from Makib in Ethiopia seeking for donations for an orphanage, or perhaps the most recent fake ticket emails that claim to have your ticket in a ZIP file. To the ...

What can we say? This is a 2GB thumb drive elegantly ensconced in in White Oak. If that weren't enough, this convenient and portable package not only allows you to listen to some of your favorite Grateful Dead bootleg MP3s on your laptop at work, but also ensures that you always have a supply of tiny little Post-It Notes on hand. ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Get ready for iPhone-mania 2.0. On July 11, Apple will launch a zippier version of the iPhone starting at $199 with a two-year AT&T contract, down from $399. It will have built-in GPS for traffic directions, run on a speedy "3G" wireless network from partner AT&T and offer corporate e-mail support. "Sales will explode," says Van Baker, an ...

When FedEx acquired printing chain Kinko's in 2004 for $2.4 billion, the air-cargo shipper's grand plan was to integrate the 1,200 stores into its business-services offerings. The goal was a digitally linked network of one-stop stores for customers to make, print, pack, and ship anything. A new name and logo, designed by Landor Associates in San Francisco, merged the two identities ...

How To Reduce Stress With Inoffensive Office Humor It’s been well-documented that humor and laughter can reduce stress and provide many other benefits. And few areas of life are more stressful than the workplace. So, not surprisingly, it’s been found that office humor can be a good stress-reliever, reducing job stress, boosting morale, bringing people closer, and perhaps even warding off ...

As the planet shrinks and the world’s economies become more interconnected, it is becoming more common to have teams whose members speak different languages and may even be citizens of different countries. Managing such a group takes a little more skill than staying within your own language, but it is not too hard if you remember a couple of key principles. ...

AdminSecret is proud to endorse the 16th Annual Forum for Administrative Excellence held this fall. Hosted and created by Joan Burge, one of our esteemed featured contributors, this event is an amazing way to connect and learn from our fellow office assistants. With the information provided, you should be able to easily convince your boss this experience will be well worth ...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Two-thirds of U.S. corporations paid no federal income taxes between 1998 and 2005, according to a new report from Congress. The study by the Government Accountability Office, expected to be released Tuesday, said about 68 percent of foreign companies doing business in the U.S. avoided corporate taxes over the same period. Collectively, the companies reported trillions of dollars ...

For the most part, male colleagues are getting used to working with competent women and treating them well. As women advance up the ladder, however, they are more likely to run into some threatened and threatening "old boys" who seem intent on showing them just who's in charge. For that reason, it's good to spend some time planning for handling put-downs. ...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court declared Wednesday that executions are too severe a punishment for child rape, despite the "years of long anguish" for victims, in a ruling that restricts the death penalty to murder and crimes against the state. The court's 5-4 decision struck down a Louisiana law that allows capital punishment for people convicted of raping children under 12. ...

Not long after a string of airline horror stories involving travelers getting stuck for four hours on the tarmac appeared in the news, three executives from a Minneapolis-based technology firm were relieved when their pilot, faced with a one-hour delay at the gate, let everyone off the plane. The trio went to a restaurant on the concourse to grab a bite. ...

FORT WORTH (AP) — American Airlines will cut back flying later this year at many airports, including hubs in Dallas and Chicago, as it attempts to cope with record high fuel prices. The nation's largest carrier gave more details Wednesday about capacity reductions it announced last month. American said it will reduce departures at its Chicago O'Hare Airport hub by 28 ...

Complaining about work might seem natural, but it can also be a huge time waster, dragging down the productivity and well-being of the chronic complainers, as well as everyone around them. Even if you want to stay positive, once a culture of negativity has taken root in your workplace, it can be hard to resist. But that doesn't mean you ...

NEW YORK – Just two weeks after a Nobel Prize highlighted theoretical work on subatomic particles, physicists are announcing a startling discovery about a much more familiar form of matter: Scotch tape. It turns out that if you peel the popular adhesive tape off its roll in a vacuum chamber, it emits X-rays. The researchers even made an X-ray image of ...