DATING Web site users typically get acquainted online, then decide whether to meet in person, but the sites are increasingly helping to forgo that first step by hosting gatherings. Last May, for ... Read more
For commercial building owners, energy-efficiency improvements have had modest appeal. Switching to less power-hungry light bulbs is relatively easy, and the payoff relatively swift. But replacing ... Read more
AKIAK, Alaska — The humble pollock, great cash fish of the north, conquered the world through the flaky bland hegemony of a fish stick. At more than $1 billion a year, there is no bigger fishery for human ... Read more
WASHINGTON — The Federal Reserve chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, faces the increasingly difficult challenge of shaping investor expectations about the future course of Fed policy amid growing signs that the ... Read more
WASHINGTON — Builders stepped up home construction in May and applied for permits to build single-family homes at the fastest pace in five years. The gains show housing remained a crucial source of growth ... Read more
One year ago, the Walt Disney Company unveiled a strict new set of nutritional standards and said it would ban ads for noncompliant foods from its child-focused cable channels by 2015. Advocacy groups fighting ... Read more
Michael Hastings, the journalist whose reporting led to the ouster of the commander of American forces in Afghanistan in 2010, died in a car crash on Tuesday, his employer announced. Mr. Hastings, ... Read more
Sherwood B. Ross, who turned his father’s Brooklyn galvanizing company into Ross Bicycles, for many years America’s third-largest bicycle manufacturer, died on June 4 in Pembroke Pines, Fla. He was ... Read more
For over 30 years, Horace Bullard’s visions for Coney Island amounted to little more than a boardwalk of broken dreams. His plans for year-round amusement parks and bustling commerce for ... Read more
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s nominee to head the Federal Communications Commission told a Senate committee on Tuesday that his experience as the leader of lobbying groups for the cable television ... Read more