Americans are worried about the fine print in the health care overhaul, an Associated Press poll says, and those concerns are creating new challenges for President Barack Obama as he tries to overcome doubts in Congress. ...more

November 16, 2009

The parent company of Outback Steakhouse has chosen the president of Avon Products as its next chief executive officer. ...more

November 6, 2009

Student performance at Florida's charter schools falls far below that at traditional public schools, according to a Stanford University report. ...more

June 17, 2009

To lift its education system out of a darkening economy, the state lined up three academic advisers with first-rate credentials. ...more

March 22, 2009

You've got to look out for No. 1. It's a dog-eat-dog world. Everybody's in it for themselves. ...more

March 14, 2009

Put down that cheeseburger and listen up: If food has become what sex was a generation ago - the intimidatingly intelligent Mary Eberstadt says it has - then a cheeseburger is akin to adultery, or worse. ...more

February 28, 2009

2008 Olympian Ryan Hall has come to Tampa to compete in Saturday's Publix Super Markets Gasparilla Distance Classic 15-kilometer road race. Hall, the American record holder in the half marathon (59 minutes, 43 seconds) who is tuning up for next month's Boston Marathon, responded to questions posed by Tampa Tribune running and triathlon writer Bill Ward about his early running career, his days as a Stanford University star, his faith and, now, running as a professional. ...more

February 26, 2009

As the nation grapples with an economic meltdown worse than any since the Great Depression, we simultaneously search for short-term remedies to relieve the crisis and long-term solutions to prevent a recurrence. While we focus on restoring reasonable oversight and sound business practices, too often we fail to recognize an underlying cause, an epidemic caused by the media-saturated cultural drumbeat of "more, fast, easy and fun." ...more

February 22, 2009

On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: a pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE. ...more

February 5, 2009

"We're out of time. Things are going extinct." So said a Stanford University biologist (Terry Root) alarmed about global warming ("Obama Can't Wait To Tackle Climate," Views, Dec. 28). ...more

January 7, 2009