Great news for those of us carrying a “few” extra pounds. The latest research, according to today’s Wall Street Journal Personal Journal section, says that 10 extra pounds may be good for you. The article by Katherine Rosman says that slightly overweight people are no more like to die from cancer or cardiovascular diseases...
Time Magazine’s Barbara Kiviat is right on in her Curious Capitalist April 19 column on pinpointing one of the critical reasons for high medical costs. Her thesis is that no one really knows the cost of most medical procedures and that is why its so hard to control them. For instance, she notes that...
Do you want to build a WiFi hot spot at your home, but are technically challenged. Well if you do and don’t have a 10 year old child available to help you, try Cisco. That’s right. Buy one of the beautiful wireless routers called Valet from Cisco and within 30 minutes you will have...
The consumers have spoken and Comcast is the “winner” of the 5th annual Consumerist.com‘s “Worst Company in America” tournament, joining the likes of AIG, Countrywide and others. The final death match round which ran from Friday, April 23 through Sunday, April 25 was heated and pinned Comcast against top-seeded Ticketmaster. “The merger with NBC...