August 7, 2006

Property taxes grew two to three times faster than incomes from 2000 to 2004 in New York's suburbs.

After a string of 17 consecutive interest rate increases, the Federal Reserve may pause this week in its long campaign of monetary tightening.

Every artist has his obstacles. For 16-year-old Harrison Schneider, they are wealth and privilege.

Worldwide movie attendance is predicted to increase over the next five years, with Asia and Central and Eastern Europe the fastest-growing regions.

The revived Lollapalooza reflects a current rock attitude that’s far more earnest than defiant.

Google will allow Web site owners to put Viacom video clips on their pages, accompanied by advertising. Viacom, Google and the site owners will divide the ad revenue.

New laws allow crime victims to use deadly force in situations that might formerly have subjected them to murder charges.

Representative Cynthia A. McKinney, who represents Georgia’s Fourth District, has been counting on a movie for last-minute help with the Democratic primary runoff vote.

Cheaters — far from being born or endemic to one sport or another — are more likely products of a twisted development.

Mozart wrote his first operas at 12, including the one I heard Saturday at the Salzburg Festival: “Bastien und Bastienne."

The use of power by equipment in “low power modes” may account for as much as 10 percent of residential energy consumption, according to experts.

The picture tube, the standard television technology for more than 60 years, is heading for obsolescence faster than anyone expected.