Jim Spencer

Your status-seeking neighbors and your surgeon might not be as rich as you think they are, says Thomas J. Stanley, director of the Affluent Market Institute in Atlanta. More administrators...

Risks International Inc., reports that executives and others involved in commerce were targets in 35 percent of the 6,535 terrorist attacks recorded in 1984 and 1985. That statistic justifies a...

Black teenage men who have children out of wedlock are not as irresponsible or uncaring as stereotypes paint them, but they have a lot to learn, a new study says....

Being unattractive may result in more than put-downs in singles bars. Intrigued by the fact that so many people in mental hospitals are unattractive, psychologists have looked for a link...

Despite its history of racial prejudice the South appears to offer blacks the greatest opportunity for economic well-being, the Joint Center for Political Studies reports. Researchers from the center in...

Emotional problems will replace physical illness as the primary health concern for the children of the future, a panel of doctors at the International Congress of Pediatrics predicted. Instead of...

Those who have been hip for years already know that being cool is mostly a state of mind. Now, researchers at Kansas State University are proving it. In an experiment...

The family is enjoying a day at Great America when suddenly Mom notices that 5-year-old Johnny is nowhere in sight. In the ensuing panic, she screams his name and searches...

Married couples really do stay together ''for the kids,'' researchers have discovered, but only if they`re ''ours,'' not ''yours or mine.'' The Rand Corp. used data from the National Longitudinal...

The national pastime is neither baseball nor football. Why, it`s not even jogging. America`s top participatory sport, according to a survey by the National Sporting Goods Association, is swimming. More...