Americans Want Parents to Be Stricter (the Chinese Not So Much)
Two-thirds of Americans think parents need to put more pressure on students
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Did you visit The Drudge Report yesterday to get the latest breaking news on the Obamacare decision? We were mainly focused on CNN (big mistake) but if you stopped by Matt Drudge's breaking news site, you were not alone.
Two-thirds of Americans think parents need to put more pressure on students
Most also say they do worse in classes without them
Data predicts the situation in Africa will get worse before it gets better
So far 1,400 gay couples have wed in the Big Apple
They end up spending about half their time doing leisure activities
Paul ranks 10th among candidates in news coverage
Officials are busting open safes to figure out which loot's whose
47% of respondents say teachers' unions hurt school quality
Competition from Facebook and Twitter has put pressure on the photo-sharing site
It's more than doubled since 2000, according to Moody's
Stressed and sleep-deprived business travelers tend to pack on the pounds
They like to entertain themselves and ignore others with their phones
Only 2.7 percent of what U.S. consumers buy is Chinese made
Tech company leaders are more worried than executives in other industries
Search and email are still the most popular online activities
Weeklies continue their cover wars
Cohabitation is better economically for the college-educated
Map confirms it: poverty underpins riots
Only 4 percent could name a living scientist
The practice of anonymous tipping peaked in the 1970s, a report finds
Stanford researchers put together a map charting journalism's progress west
A quarter of people say they have less respect for someone who smokes
For different regions of the country, all smartphones are not created equal
Mom and dad are learning to use their iPhones as babysitters
Tea Partiers were twice as likely to contact a representative
By one count, at least 42 journalists have been murdered there in the past half decade
The BBC says that the research firm that published the results is made up
But subscribers are still buying papers mainly for their local coverage
The candidates' follower counts don't quite match what you'd expect
The Chinese electronics giant plans to commission 1 million factory robots by 2014
Most Android users say they'll switch to another phone
The Journal is asking readers about the impact of the News Corp. scandal
Interest rates for some corporations lower than those of the two European nations
Even historic defaulter Argentina can't believe a debt ceiling deal hasn't been reached yet
Opera and Camino users are the smartest; lnternet Explorer not so much
Lessons on Afghanistan, and online journalism, too
Tooth compensation has gone down by 40 cents
That's about as much as what fast-food workers make
The tech website's review of OS X Lion makes its way onto Kindle
We count the number of field offices for each electoral vote to figure out priorities
In The Atlantic Wire's guestimation, that's about $445 per word
He says students gave him poor evaluations, and his pay suffered as a result
But it's still nowhere near Facebook's 750 million users
In good news for the Almighty that's still higher than Obama and Boehner
"Insurance," "rehab," and "cord blood" draw top dollar on Google
67 percent of college students report they have sent sexually explicit texts
Researchers look at how business reporters talk about markets as an indicator
USA Today argues that job security is better with Uncle Sam than private sector
File under macroeconomic questions you never asked
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