A new report from the World Health Organization suggests that the reason most people in the world do not enjoy the good health that their bodies potentially offer from a biological perspective is due to a "toxic combination of policies, economics, and po

A bit of good luck and fortunate timing were all it took for Becky Dewitz to land her dream job as Roosevelt Park Zoo's education coordinator. Dewitz grew up in the Midwest, moving from place to place because of her father's job in the ministry.

US economist Paul Krugman, a critic of the Bush administration for policies that he argues led to the current financial crisis, won the 2008 Nobel prize for economics.

Blue Cross introduced Blue University in September 2001 to give employees the opportunity to complete or continue their educations and take advantage of career development opportunities on company premises.

For decades, researchers have said children from two-parent families do better than those raised by a single parent. That's still true, they say. But newer research pokes holes into that all-or-nothing approach.