It's a popular dieting secret: Drink more water, and you'll shed more pounds. Finally, science is adding weight to the practice.
After about three months, a new study found, obese dieters who drank two cups of water before each meal lost 5 pounds more than a group of dieters who didn't increase their water intake. A year later, the...
I think most of us will agree that Hollywood, as an industry, doesn’t take nearly enough risks. Studios are perfectly content with following a pattern, playing in their own familiar sandbox with their same old toys until someone else in school discovers what the new, cool trends are going to be. If someone else can make a buck off of a fresh idea,...
Fewer beans means higher prices. Here, a farmer collects coffee at a plantation in Colombia.
The price of coffee beans hit a 12-year high today. I thought there might be some kind of reclusive-hedge-fund-guy-corners-coffee-market story, like we saw with cocoa earlier this summer.
But the main driver of coffee prices right now is more prosaic:...
Over the last 700 years, powerful quakes have struck the region every 45-144 years.
The last big 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Los Angeles 153 years ago; the next is overdue.
If the "Big One" strikes, 2,000-50,000 people could lose their lives.
Although individuals, regulators and the emergency services can prepare, the...
Is President Obama good for the Jews? For more and more Jewish-Americans, the answer is no.
In a Pew Research Center report issued on Thursday and entitled “Growing Number of Americans Say Obama Is a Muslim” (tragic in its own right), there was another bit of bad news for Obama: the number of Jews who identify as Republican or as independents...
