Tiger Kids With Heart: What the Ivies Want

Note the possessive pronoun that frames the question and the narrow focus on name brand schools. My first task is to point out that my goal for students I work with is to help them to uncover their scholarly niche and aim for schools that are a good fit academically and socially.

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A Fight to Win the Future: Computers vs. Humans

STANFORD, Calif. — At the dawn of the modern computer era, two Pentagon-financed laboratories bracketed Stanford University. At one laboratory, a small group of scientists and engineers worked to replace the human mind, while at the other, a similar group worked to augment it.

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Drumming Up More Internet Addresses

They debated the question for more than a year. Finally, with a deadline looming, Mr.

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Gene tests inadvertently exposing cases of incest

New gene-based tests that map out a person's entire genetic code can help explain why a child has birth defects or developmental delays, but they are also exposing some dark family secrets.

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The Game-Changing Cookbook

Here's the recipe for the most astonishing cookbook of our time: Take one multimillionaire computer genius, a team of 36 researchers, chefs and editors and a laboratory specially built for cooking experiments.

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Have You Charged Your Eyeglasses Today?

A NEW device may be joining smartphones, iPads and music players that you have to charge overnight: electronic eyeglasses. These glasses have tiny batteries, microchips and assorted electronics to turn reading power on when you need it and off when you don't.

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The Answer Sheet: Teachers hitting kids? Yes

The case in Montgomery County public schools serves as a good reminder that legal whacking, better known as corporal punishment, is still allowed in 20 states and administered to hundreds of thousands of students a year.

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Free Tacos at Taco Bell -- Hurry to Get Your Fake Meat!

Taco Bell meat was gross before we knew it wasn't entirely "meat," and it's still just as gross. But I will still eat four or five of the nasty little tacos in one sitting.

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Apple Plans Small iPhone, Free Backup Service

Apple is working on a tiny iPhone that would be about half the size of the current model and cost half as much, the Wall Street Journal reports. The new phones will come out this summer, says the report

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AT&T sweetens the iPhone pot with extra minute

AT&T isn't just getting aggressive with ads to tout the iPhone on its network versus Verizon's, it's giving away minutes as well.

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6 Dead, 37 Injured in Mexican Nightclub Attack

GUADALAJARA, Mexico -- Armed men opened fire and hurled a grenade into a crowded nightclub early Saturday, killing six people and wounding at least 37 in a western city whose former tranquility has been shattered by escalating battles among drug cartels.

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Journalism and the Dangers of Self-Censorship: The AOL-Huffington Post Deal

The growing number of journalists being stopped, held, beaten and even killed during the uprising in Egypt, and in places around the world where we desperately need strong reporting, is a disturbing trend.

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US Chamber Of Commerce Wants More Censorship, More IP Protectionism

The US Chamber of Commerce is becoming an increasingly sad and deluded shell of an organization.

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Liam Gallagher 'sickened by Oasis reunion'

Liam Gallagher has stated that the idea of an Oasis reunion makes him want to "vomit".

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Rihanna 'fuming' over Brit Award censorship

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Egypt's revolt met with wide support, censorship

In China, where the ruling Communist Party ruthlessly stamps out dissent, terse media reports downplayed the large-scale pro-democracy protests in Egypt that forced Mubarak from power and instead emphasized the country's disorder and lawlessness.

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US Internet censorship fight falling short: report

The report suggested the delays in allocating funding were partly because some of the most sophisticated ICCT software -- DIT and UltraReach -- was developed by two US companies founded by members of the Falungong, which is banned in China, to allow followers to break through the …

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The Dirty Little Secrets of Search

The New York Times asked an expert in online search, Doug Pierce of Blue Fountain Media in New York, to study this question, as well as Penney's astoundingly strong search-term performance in recent months.

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