Youth sports in the United States are in crisis. Parent-coaches fight with students and each other, occasionally to the death. Young children, often pressured by overbearing parents, become ruthless competitors at an early age, desperate to excel rather than simply enjoy themselves.
No one ever said the holidays were a perfect time of year, just a time of year when we want everything to be perfect. We want to eat at the feast without getting fat. We want to spread the joy of the season but don't exactly know how to start. Temple University experts can provide expert analysis on these and a host of other issues related to the end-of-the-year, holiday blitz.
There is more to making sure feline and canine friends are happy this season than just wrapping a bone or catnip to leave under the Christmas tree. "Whether you are leaving your pet at home or traveling with them during the holidays, planning is necessary to ensure they are safe," says the director of the Wellness Clinic at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine.
An extraordinary, edible edifice was unveiled at NYIT's de Seversky Center this week in preparation for the holiday season. World-renowned jeweler Theo Faberge of the London-based St. Petersburg Collection collaborated with culinary artisans from NYIT's Culinary Arts Center to create a magical, gingerbread rendering of the elegant de Seversky Center, one of the most magnificent gems on Long Island's fabled Gold Coast.
DominoSugar.com offers baking tricks, tips for baking with kids and hundreds of recipes in one easy-to-use site.
A professor in the School of Information Studies at Florida State University and an expert on children's literature believes that young Harry Potter fans are on board for life in the same way that those who discovered the "The Hobbit" and "The Lord of the Rings" books as children remain fans of the books and movies as adults.
J. Patrick McGrail, assistant professor of communications at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove, Pa., found in his research that newspapers favor coverage of their own public opinion political polls over those conducted by other media outlets.
University of Rhode Island students needing a quick and easy way to get across campus will soon have a fleet of bicycles at their disposal that they can use for free, thanks to an innovative bike sharing program being planned by a group of freshmen.
A great deal of the trick-or-treat candy meant for kids winds up in adult offices, on adult teeth, where brushing away the sugar is soon forgotten. November 1st is the unofficial start of two months of a "goodies in the office spree." So now what?
Is it time for cheddar and mozzarella to moooove over? Cheesemakers at the Wisconsin Center for Dairy Research, within the College of Agricultural and Life Sciences, unveiled recently a new specialty cheese for Wisconsin cheese producers.
Labor Day has come and gone, the leaves are turning color, and people's attention has turned to the fall classics--the World Series and football. Now is also the time to turn your attention to getting your home prepared to keep you warm this winter, says a Temple University mechanical engineering professor.
A plan by CNN Headline News to use hip hop phrases in daily newscasts is a risky gamble, says a group of Ball State University educators.
Before the United States attacks Iraq, Americans should consider The principle the Bush administration is using as it moves closer to war, because "It is hard to grasp and impossible to exaggerate how ... dangerous, and subversive of world order and peace that principle is," a historian says.
The grandson of the Mahatma Gandhi has spent a lot of time over the last year reflecting on terrorism, war and peace. One of the things that has puzzled Rajmohan Gandhi is the "apparent absence of Abraham Lincoln from the 9/11 discourse."
War with Iraq would be costly -- in any number of ways, two historians say.
Americans are no more attentive today to news of the world than they were before the Sept. 11 attacks, according to a new study.
When it comes to selling water-based sports drinks to a fitness-crazed society, the result is more about marketing than improving athletic performance, says a Ball State University researcher.
With the great American pastime once again confronting a work stoppage, economics professor Bruce Johnson can offer an economic perspective on many of the sticking points between players and owners: salary caps, luxury taxes on higher-payroll teams, revenue sharing, etc.
If MLB teams want to have a winning season, they should pay more attention to recruiting and developing all-stars and not necessarily give in to high salary demands, says the chair of the marketing department at Baylor University's School of Business.
A little girl on a television program is sad because she misses her mother and she has no friends. Her mother died from AIDS and her classmates balk at the thought of playing with her because she herself is HIV positive.
Purdue University experts can discuss the potential baseball strike's impact on fans and the strike negotiation process.
On September 10th last year, recent law graduates Akira Arroyo and Rebecca Thornton began their first day of work as Equal Justice Works fellows. They expected to spend the next two years as public interest community lawyers working to resolve the day-to-day legal concerns of New Yorkers. One year later, like most New Yorkers, their lives and work have been drastically altered.
A new survey reports how America's youth are using the Internet in their education.
What have the years revealed about the legacy of Elvis Presley, who died 25 years ago this week? The University of Wisconsin-Madison offers a trio of cultural/musical experts to help us sort it out.
An Illinois professor and his family lived in the first air-cooled house in North America while while the professor supervised some of the earliest ongoing experiments involving residential central-air conditioning.
Independent, family-owned newspapers now represent only about one in six papers in the United States, with the rest under corporate ownership.
Hotels and motels are in hot competition this summer. What does this mean for consumers? Many hotels and motels offer as many as 20 to 40 different room rates. AAA and AARP normally bring 10% to 15% reductions, but with artful haggling you can often do better.
If you're looking for local angles or a broader followup to NBC's announcement that cable newscaster Brian Williams will succeed Tom Brokaw as NBC network news anchor, several University of Wisconsin-Madison experts can help.
The age-old struggle between father and son. Religious allegory. References to Marx and Hegel. Mimes. What else could one ask for in a feature film? Haunting Pierrot's Ghost, a collaborative project by University Theatre and filmmaking club Fire Escape Productions, offers all this and more.
Jazz legend bassist Percy Heath will be honored May 17 and 18 by his hometown Wilmington, NC, with a star and an honorary doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Brother Jimmy gets honorary doctorate from Juilliard May 24.
Sure the superhero Spiderman can do lots of amazing tricks. But, what about the amazing little creatures that lurk in the corners of our house, hide under our beds, and spin webs in our garages? A professor of entomology, is Purdue's own "Spiderman," and he can talk about the more common creature.
His name isn't Peter Parker, but there's a real-life "spider man" on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. When the highly anticipated Spider-Man movie hits theaters May 3, you can bet that Jim Carrel will have his soda and popcorn ready.
Purdue University will enlarge its longstanding association with Amelia Earhart May 2 by becoming the largest, most comprehensive repository of materials relating to her life, career and mysterious disappearance.
Former St. Louis Cardinals baseball pitcher-turned-sports announcer Dizzy Dean was well known in Missouri for his broadcasting style, which was full of mangled grammar and malapropisms. Dean's career -- including the "School Marms' Uprising" of 1946 -- is detailed in an article published in this month.
In an attempt to provide a "refreshing look" at 21st century Chinese life, organizers have created the China Pop Culture Conference, set for April 19-20 at the UI.
The birth date of 19th-century New Orleans voodoo queen Marie Laveau has been as much a mystery to historians as the spells that she was known for casting. But 200 years later, an LSU voodoo expert has uncovered Laveau's original birth record, and in the process, has been able to shed some light on the mystery of Laveau's life.
Terry Bahill can't hit major league pitching, but his photo hangs in a new Baseball Hall of Fame exhibition featuring such revered relics as "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's shoes and the world's most valuable baseball card (the T206 Honus Wagner).
Independent filmmaker and Marlboro College Film Professor Jay Craven's new film, "The Year that Trembled," debuts on March 22 at the 26th Cleveland International Film Festival.
Whether they win or lose in their first round of tournament play, the 64 Division I men's basketball coaches in the NCAA tournament starting March 14 will follow predictable patterns in what they say after the game, according to a Wake Forest University professor. He calls it coachtalk.
P.M. Forni's new book, "Choosing Civility: The Twenty-five Rules of Considerate Conduct," is intended to help readers rediscover time-honored practices that are often overlooked in our fast-paced and stressful lives.
Experts from Temple University are available to discuss a host of issues related to the six-month anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
The success of the "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack at the Grammy Awards on Feb. 27 signals a renewed interest in roots music, says a University of Missouri-Rolla historian.
Americans cheered as the women's bobsled team brought home the gold in Salt Lake City. Will this mean endorsement deals for the duo that broke America's 46-year medal drought in bobsledding?
Bucknell business professor Keith Willoughby, an Olympic curling fanatic and self-proclaimed "math geek," has done sophisticated statistical analyses of championship curling games -- an Olympic event -- that highlight winning game strategies.
In commemoration of two unique events, the birth of a child and the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, IHC will send home all babies born in any of its hospitals during the Games wrapped in a special Olympic baby blanket. IHC is the medical services provider for the Games.
When Monday morning quarterbacks begin dissecting the Super Bowl, the real MVP may have never played a down.
Are Super bowl ads, now at $1.9M for 30 seconds, worth it in these leaner times? A marketing professor and his students at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management will analyze this year's ads and ask if the companies buying them made good business and marketing decisions.
Parents may not understand the lyrics their children are singing and dancing to, but they don't have to feel completely helpless either.
Movie critics and audiences are applauding "A Beautiful Mind", whose central character has schizophrenia. But the film may achieve a higher purpose than entertainment, one expert says: it could raise the public's awareness about a common but overlooked mental illness.
Got your Christmas decorations in hand? Or has the annual showdown with the impossible tangle of Christmas tree lights got you flummoxed?
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