Jim Spencer

Grooving to the tune of $300,000 in federal grants, researchers at Michigan State University have completed a three-year project that they say proves that music helps pre-teens improve their knowledge...

Countless words have been written about the American spirit, but just how adventuresome are we? Well, a newly released survey of 1,000 Americans reveals that only 21 percent of those...

Although they do not commit a disproportionate number of serious crimes, minority juveniles are being jailed in public correctional facilities at a rate three to four times greater than that...

Chalk one up for the work ethic. A University of Michigan researcher says that most Americans get more satisfaction from their jobs than their leisure- time activities. F. Thomas Juster...

Denying rejection may do you more harm than good, a psychologist says. Jerry Suls, a professor at the State University of New York-Albany, found in a study that people who...

Well, it might not be the healthiest practice in the world, but kissing doesn`t pose a tremendous risk. With AIDS phobia running rampant and Hollywood smoochers running scared, Self magazine...

Here`s the scoop. Americans spent about $1.86 billion on gourmet ice cream in 1985, according to the New York marketing research firm FIND/SVP. That`s just about half of the $4.1...

The practice of categorizing personalities by letter continues. Not long ago management professor Leonard Chusmir of the University of Colorado-Denver presented results of a study showing that the strongest predictors...

Scientists are working on a ''fat test'' for pigs that may one day help predict whether humans will become porcine. The test measures blood chemicals in mother pigs and their...

Drug testing in the workplace, the latest trend in the war on drug abuse, strikes many people as inconclusive and unfair. So strategies to combat the ever-increasing tests are cropping...