Colleges See Rise In Mental Health Issues

College can be tough enough when all is going well, but for a student having clinical depression, anxiety or eating disorders, it can seem insurmountable. Whether mental health problems are more prevalent now than in the past , is not clear. But there are more resources to be had today and students should feel encouraged to seek help rather than suffer in silence. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=113835383&sc=nl&cc=hh-20091019

NBC Sued Over Font License

Remember - fonts are not free. They are considered intellectual property.

NBC Sued Over Font License: "Font Bureau Inc., Boston,is suing NBC Universal Inc. for $2 million, ..."

How Private Equity Firms Affect all of Us

Private equity firms touch our lives everyday. They buy undervalued companies, mostly with borrowed money.They then extract money from the company through various means (fees, dividends, selling off parts etc.) When the company goes bankrupt or outright fails, these companies have still made their millions. All of us should watch this remarkable investigative story to understand how much our lives are affected by the artificial financial schemes run by a few.
http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/business/2009-private-equity/index.html