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Do you have a hard time asking for what you want?

Afraid to push the envelope at work and at home? You may be a recovering “nice girl.” Dr. Louis Frankel and Carol Frohlinger have written a book called “Nice Girls Just Don’t Get It” and want to help

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Even In The Office, Casting Is Everything

How do great managers cultivate excellent performances so consistently? Sometimes it's about moving a star into a supporting role. We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from First, Break All the Rules (1999) by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman.

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The Giant Ragweed Forest: A New Threat to Farming

A single giant ragweed plant can reduce the yield in an area holding 30 soybean plants by as much as half. That is one of the reasons that farmers are worried by a new generation of superweeds that has developed resistance to the herbicide glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup

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The Growing Menace from Superweeds (preview)

In the second week of November, central Indiana is a patchwork of tawny and black: here a field covered with a stubble of dried corn and soybean plants; a little far

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Risks vs. Gains

One of the biggest issues of our time is energy: where to get it, how to save it, and how it relates to our climate, food and water.

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Video: The truth about sex and love after 50

Whether you’re single or married, igniting the spark of intimacy can be a whole new ballgame during your midlife years. Sex therapist Ian Kerner and relationship expert Kailen Rosenberg talk about the changes maturity may bring to your love life. (TODAY)

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iFive: Walmart Buys Kosmix, MobileMe Revamp Imminent, Samsung Sells HDD Biz And Fights Back With Apple, 1-800 Numbers Go Sexy

1. Wal-Mart just handed over around $300 million for Kosmix, a topic-curated social media platform that's just six years old. The new firm will join the @WalmartLabs division, trying to build-out the retail giant's online shopping experience--which is now set to get a big injection of social media thinking, and will probably leverage Kosmix's smart semantic interpretation code to come up with purchase suggestions 2

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