Economists argue that traditional higher education is like other service industries: because the product entails interaction with highly educated labor in small groups, it is difficult to raise productivity. As wages rise in the rest of the economy …

Some industry analysts also believe the U.S. will eventually go to three competitors, as other affluent countries have. Though more … Stephen Lawson covers mobile, storage and networking technologies for The IDG News Service. Follow Stephen on …

Michael Schock, who survived the April shooting, filed the claim against the city of Lafayette, its police department, the two officers and the Contra Costa Sheriff's Office, which contracts police services to the affluent city. Schock, a UC Berkeley …

Hospitals are going the way of the Postal Service, primarily serving the less affluent and unsophisticated, like Buttress, who still waits to get sick before seeking treatment, although the Google Medicine boxes are getting cheaper and more widespread …

Normally he uses that skill in the service of doling out financial advice to the more than 7.7 million people who tune in to his radio show every week, which makes him the third-most-popular radio personality in the country, behind Rush Limbaugh and …

Although high-speed Internet may seem ubiquitous to those living in big cities or affluent areas, the fact remains that in many parts of the United States, access to the Web is still hard to come by. According to the FCC, … It's not too surprising …

In October 2011, four months after New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed a law allowing the state's same-sex couples to wed, Wolfson married Cheng He, a health-care consultant he had met online in 2002. Their marriage was featured prominently in the …

Goldman is the director of the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Project, a counseling service for teens that reaches around 23,000 kids in 14 schools in the district. (She's also the sister of Ron Goldman, the man slain along with Nicole Brown Simpson, the …

Pine Creek Ranch is located at 3600 College Park Drive in The Woodlands, one of the most affluent neighborhoods in Texas and the #3 best-selling master-planned community in the US according to ARA Real Estate Investment Services. The community is …