Dallas Morning News

Everybody says you can't put a value on a human life. But a corporation? That used to be easy. Investors just studied how much a company made, owned and owed....

Uncle Sam wants you to know that when the dreaded Y2K bug finally bites, everything will be just fine. Earlier this year, the President's Council on Year 2000 Conversion began...

Griping about your job is an American tradition. And with the World Wide Web, there's a new forum for sharing woes. The site www.myboss.com, for instance, invites "insane anecdotes" about...

In the Internet age, the art and etiquette of job seeking is changing. As more people apply for jobs on-line, career advisers are wrestling with questions such as these: Do...

Ed Skidmore went about the business of dying with his usual dispatch. He sold his house, paid his debts, said his goodbyes. He bought a burial plan. Then one day,...

At 5:30 a.m., Jerry Bradford climbs out of bed in suburban Dallas. In the early-morning silence, he readies himself for work and the eventual rising of his two sons, 13-year-old...

He'd headed the Asian sales office for a large Texas firm before taking early retirement. Now, some of the retired executive's consulting clients were hinting that his references were less...

Forget the job interview as the culmination of the process of getting the right job. These days, business students and employers are paying almost as much attention to the right...

Rock art from places as widespread as Texas and Guam are thought to capture the astronomical significance of the sky. Native American petroglyphs near Paint Rock, Texas, were created so...

Dwight (Dak) Quarles aims his remote control at the TV set suspended over his Dallas hospital bed, where he has agreed to stay for an 18-day NASA study. "I don't...