New college graduates are plunging into the rockiest job market in recent years as companies have scaled back their plans for entry-level hiring amid worsening economic conditions.

Airlines have a new attitude toward customers of failed carriers: It's your loss, not ours. With more airlines folding these days, the impact on consumers can be severe. Forum | Podcast

Travel Editor Andrea Petersen on where to shop, eat and stay in this center of Renaissance art.

Don't hang on to Yahoo shares unless you are comfortable gambling with your money. Maybe Microsoft sweetens its bid to as high as $35 a share, or maybe it walks and Yahoo slides back toward $20.

If you close your eyes and think of Charlton Heston, you will see him in a role that is a lot like the man he was: strong and always solid.

Cabaret is a world where sophistication is of the essence; it may be the last stage left on which experience has the upper hand over youth. But meet 30-something Maude Maggart, who is trying to buck that trend.

"War and Decision," by former Undersecretary for Policy Douglas J. Feith, is the best account to date of how the administration debated, decided, organized and executed its military responses to Sept. 11.

California's embrace of plug-in hybrids as fuel-efficient, low-emission vehicles was part of a long retreat from its original goal for zero emissions vehicles. It also shows how hard it is to get all of the carbon out of cars, writes Joseph White.