Preventing the common cold may be as easy as getting more sleep. ...more

January 12, 2009

Game industry recruiters have their sights on the University of Central Florida. The university in Orlando is one of the 10 schools most frequently mentioned by game industry recruiters among 200 that offer courses in video game development, a Los Angeles Times report says. ...more

October 21, 2008

The University of Central Florida is one of the 10 schools most frequently mentioned by game industry recruiters among 200 schools offering courses in video game development, a Los Angeles Times report says. Others in the top 10 listing are the University of Southern California, Southern Methodist University. Carnegie Mellon University, Georgia Institute of Technology, Cornell University, University of Pennsylvania, DigiPen Institute of Technology in Richmond, Wash., Vancouver Film School in Vancouver, British Columbia and the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., ...more

October 20, 2008

It's a dreaded disease. The fourth-highest cause of cancer deaths in the United States, it's usually portrayed as an unstoppable, incurable killer. It has struck some high-profile figures: Hollywood actor Patrick Swayze has been diagnosed with it. Opera star Luciano Pavarotti and former Ronald Reagan aide Michael Deaver died of it. So, too, on July 25, did Randy Pausch, the former Carnegie Mellon University computer science professor whose "last lecture" before a university audience became a YouTube sensation and a best-selling book. ...more

August 11, 2008

Regarding "Carnegie Mellon Professor's Dream Filled Life Ends At 47" (front page, July 26): ...more

August 2, 2008

Randy Pausch, a terminally ill professor whose earnest farewell lecture at Carnegie Mellon University became an Internet phenomenon and best-selling book that turned him into a symbol for living and dying well, died Friday at his home in Chesapeake, Va., of complications from pancreatic cancer. He was 47. ...more

July 26, 2008

Two magic words are turning consumers' heads lately. Not "Get rich" or "Lose weight." Try "Free gas." ...more

June 9, 2008

MILWAUKEE - Two magic words are turning consumers' heads lately. Not "Get rich" or "Lose weight." Try "Free gas." Businesses from banks and hotels to golf-club makers and blood-donation centers are offering promotions that involve free gas - generating more attention and goodwill from price-stunned drivers than traditional promotions might deliver. ...more

June 8, 2008

"The Last Lecture" (Hyperion, $21.95), a best seller written by a professor dying of pancreatic cancer and a Wall Street Journal writer, is the perfect example of how the Internet is changing publishing and what people read. ...more

June 1, 2008

Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday called for a summer-long suspension of the federal gasoline tax and several tax cuts as the likely presidential nominee sought to stem the public's pain from a troubled economy. ...more

April 16, 2008