November 17, 2011

Matthew Polly and Jim Genia, two chroniclers of mixed martial arts, a popular sport that is illegal in New York State, participated in a “Battle of the Books” last week.

Michael Phillips is debunking the commonly held belief that apples can’t be grown without pesticides.

Young Americans who can afford to move out have decided to wait until getting on more solid footing, and their prudence is depriving the economy of a lot of potential activity.

Some companies are starting to penalize employees who smoke or are obese by raising their health insurance costs.

The Obama administration has expressed concern that the failure to move to civilian control could undermine the defining revolt of the Arab Spring.

With the timing, and perhaps the future, of the Keystone XL pipeline project now uncertain, alternatives to the hotly contested project have begun emerging.

The Department of Homeland Security is making changes that are aimed at speeding up deportations of convicted criminals and halting those of many illegal immigrants with no criminal record.

Japanese officials say at least $4.9 billion is unaccounted for at Olympus and are looking into whether much of it went to companies with links to organized crime.

The picture book “A Very Young Dancer” influenced a generation of girls in 1976. But its protagonist’s later life wasn’t all slippers and stages.

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart star in Bill Condon’s melodrama — the first of a two-part adaptation of the series’ last book.

Bill Miller helped found Legg Mason in 1982 and it made him a legend on Wall Street, but the volatility after 2006 hit the fund hard.

Bernard Connolly’s proposition that foisting a common currency upon many disparate nation states would end in ruin is getting a much wider hearing.