Caregivers feel love’s anguish
Life can be so unfair. That was exactly what John Farley thought Tuesday when he heard about Dana Reeve's death. He didn't know the widow of Christopher Reeve, but in...
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Hacking It
Avi Rubin is known for annoying large companies and important people. Two years ago, the Johns Hopkins University professor first alerted the country to troubling vulnerabilities in electronic voting, much...
Credit card security lapses cause worries for retailers
Retailers are concerned that they might bear the brunt of lapses in credit and computer security, including the breach that led to hundreds of thousands, and perhaps millions, of credit...
A rush to write final wishes
Alan Meadoff knew two years ago when he was diagnosed with prostate cancer how he wanted to go in the end. No feeding tube. No life support. No assisted-living facility...
E-mailers beware: ‘Private’ messages may be anything but
Millions of fingers would freeze in mid-typing right now if everyone in the world could keep in mind what a minefield e-mail can be. Consider what Tom Ryan, an information...
Plans of a lifetime abruptly cut short
There were so many things Linda Trinh had yet to do over the next five years. For her parents, the bubbly and devoted 21-year-old planned a visit to the Vatican....
’60 Minutes’ story suffered from ‘myopic zeal’
In TV news lingo, it's called "crashing the story" - a frenzied, focused, all-out effort to get the information, get the pictures, get it on the air and, most important,...
The lively art of haggling
Anne Nelson has no qualms about haggling with a salesman over the price of a car. A ready check, some research and a take-it-or-leave-it attitude helped the 1st-grade teacher get...
The infomercial celebrates its 20th birthday
Maybe it was the TAEBO Live! 4-pack Workout DVD in which men and women kick and punch their way toward losing unwanted pounds and revealing the buff bod hiding inside...
372,000 remain without electricity
More than 370,000 Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. customers were still waiting for power yesterday, and company executives cautioned that it could be Friday, more than a week after the...