A computer can be a lifeline. It can be a tool to increase productivity, educate the world and bring people closer. And increasingly, it also has become a source of contamination in the developing world.
Like cell phones and other consumer…
In 2005, corporate America turned a $1.6 trillion profit. Even by Sinatra standards, it was a very good year. Why, then, did 25 percent of large American corporations pay no income tax — zero — that year?
Taxpaying Americans — scraping to…
In Spain, Pamplona has its annual running of the bulls. Sweetwater, Tex., has its Rattlesnake Roundup. And Washington has the annual farce of the physicians’ Medicare fee cuts.
Not familiar with that last one? It plays out when an increase in spending…
