The Philadelphia Inquirer

America is in a frenzy to wire its tots. The latest computer software, called "lapware," is targeted to babies as young as 1 day old, who can't sit up but...

Move over, sake. The Japanese, encouraged by affordable foreign brands and reports of health benefits, are drinking imported wine in record amounts. Wine imports more than doubled last year to...

Securities and Exchange Commission officials insist they are on top of investor fraud on the Internet, but the track record suggests the robbers may be ahead of the cops at...

More of you are taking coffee breaks. Surveyed by the National Coffee Association, 48.5 percent of U.S. consumers, or 114 million people, identified themselves as coffee drinkers. That's up from...

Jodi Schwartz is 25. But when it comes to health and fitness, she's wise beyond her years. "The whole point is to have fun," she was saying the other day....

Known mostly for its immediacy, the Internet is drawing praise for its ability to illuminate the past. "The World Wide Web is probably the most significant development for historians since...

His first patient had Parkinson's disease. Leonard Jarett was in medical school back then, in 1960. There was little treatment to offer. The patient drooled. He wet the bed and...

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There's no substitute for a full-blown, real-life encyclopedia--CD-ROM, on-line or print. But if you're on a tight budget or away from your desk for a while, you should try Webstitution....

What if it didn't matter if you kissed your children or spanked them? Read them "Goodnight Moon" every night or went out dancing? Spent weekends on the soccer field or...