Too many save too little to be retirement ready
Most Americans are pretty sure they'll do just fine in retirement. The latest Retirement Confidence Survey, released in April, found that 65 percent of workers are either very confident or...
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KOKY DISHON: IN APPRECIATION
The Tempo section you're holding, and many other parts of the Tribune -- KidNews, WomanNews, Friday -- all sprang from the incredibly inventive mind of Colleen "Koky" Dishon. Koky died...
Coast Guard does its duty in offering leave
Veterans always say that the term "military intelligence" is a contradiction in terms, but a U.S. Coast Guard program seems to be proving them wrong. The Coast Guard's Temporary Separation...
The simpler life
The Amish country of central Illinois is about as far away from Chicago as you can get without resorting to time travel. The area around the towns of Arcola, Arthur...
HOLY OCTANE
Seminary student Jarred Johnson of Madison, Wis., had a revelation: an on-line search for low gas prices. Thousands have seen the light. Fuelbargain.com launched in mid-June and got more than...
PRIVACY
Ah, the wonders of technology. A pharmacy sells your prescription records to any marketer willing to pay for them. The software embeds a unique identifier in every document you write....
SUMMER READING
The question would seem a no-brainer: Is it better for kids to read a book or be glued to the computer? Well, if kids log onto www.bookadventure.org, the computer could...
ABOUT THE EBUSINESS SECTION
Everybody talks about Amazon.com and eBay as if they are prime examples of how the Internet has changed the way the world does business, but consumer electronic commerce is only...
THE INTERNET
Internet veterans are forever sniffing that the portal-izing of the Web has turned the medium into a sterile and homogenized wasteland of sameness. They should check out newcity.com, a Chicago-based...
CYBER STORY
With all the knee-jerk Gates-bashing going on in Washington and Silicon Valley, it's refreshing to read a book that sheds light on technology's wunderkind without taking sides. Seattle journalist Paul...