Jim Spencer

Call it a manifestation of a new morality, call it a reaction to the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, call it what you like. Young people of both sexes would...

To go along with their BMWs and MBAs, Yuppies now have adopted another status symbol, the GAA (General American Accent). Speech therapists report that young professionals are concerned that their...

If wisdom comes with age, perhaps Americans had better start pursuing relationships instead of bucks. Children, friends and relatives, not money, are life`s most precious possessions, according to a study...

Today`s parents may be less willing than their predecessors to sacrifice in order to make things better for their kids. A study of the status of the American family, commissioned...

Mattel, Inc., has introduced a line of dolls with disabilities. The line, called Hal`s Pals, includes seven figures, among them Hal, a ski instructor whose left leg has been amputated....

Bad news comes quickly at work, but the boss who bears it may have gone through elaborate rehearsals to prepare. Those are among the findings of a study by Northwestern...

If you want to save your marriage, consider moving to Pennsylvania. The state has 4 of the 10 cities with the country`s lowest divorce rates. In addition to Altoona, Reading,...

Tired of guessing about the number of homeless in their community, a group of researchers in Nashville decided to count heads. In the wee hours of the morning on the...

Women`s liberation notwithstanding, some traditional differences between the sexes seem entrenched. In a study of teenagers, the advertising firm Doyle Dane Bernbach Inc. found that males remain by far the...

In the 1970s, this Mississippi River town was booming. Two major employers, Dubuque Packing Co. and the John Deere Dubuque works, wrote paychecks for some 20 per cent of the...