Over the past few years, an increasing number of worn-out consumers have reached for a bottle of Vitaminwater after a workout. The sports drink has emerged as a serious competitor to Gatorade and other noncarbonated beverages, so much so that Coca-Cola forked over $4.2 billion in cash to buy the brand from Glaceau back in 2007
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Bond-Fund Buyer Beware
Investors are courting an old flame: bond mutual funds.
Study: Why Older Women Have Higher Sex Drive
Men who cheat on their spouses have always enjoyed an expedient explanation: Evolution made me do it.
Bad Online Reputation? How Experts Can Make You Look Good
Michael Fertik may be running a business, but by the time new customers are knocking on his door, things have turned decidedly personal. “People send us letters that say, ‘You saved my life,'” says the CEO of Reputation.com, pointing to the dramatic ways in which a person’s virtual reputation can shape their day-to-day routine
The Responsibility Revolution
We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals,” FDR said in 1937, in the midst of the Great Depression. “We know now that it is bad economics.” We learned this all over again after the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the shame of subprime mortgages and the brazen Ponzi scheme of Bernie Madoff.
Exposing the Credit-Card Fine Print
To credit-card companies, it’s not sufficient that customers pay their bills on time every month; they must also avoid a daunting array of borrowing habits that lenders deem risky.
Viewpoint: How Libya Became a French and British War
As the military action against Libya to give teeth to U.N. Security Resolution 1973 began, one question kept nagging away: Why, precisely, were the governments of Britain and France in the lead
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee: Robin Wright Penn’s Moment
Public interest in “The Real Housewives” of hither and yon notwithstanding, the well-behaved trophy wife is not, generally speaking, a character we’re dying to know more about. And beautiful Pippa Lee is a trophy wife of the highest order
Latest Pawn in the Thai-Cambodian Spat? Thaksin
The naming of an honorary economic advisor to a small Southeast Asian country doesn’t usually make news.
Castro’s sister: She helped CIA against Cuban leaders
Juanita Castro, the younger sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, worked for the CIA during some crucial years of the Cold War, she says in her new memoir.