What Are the Chances?

If you figure out where to live by the crime rate, many of the safest places to live are outside the United States, where crime, though lower than it

It is often quipped that the lottery is a tax on stupidity (google "lottery: tax on stupidity" and you will see what I mean). I've always been bothered by this for two reasons: 1) one of the first peo...

For those of us with aging parents, visits to the hospital can become somewhat routine, unfortunately. An overnight stay for minor surgery, as my father recently had, isn't particularly worrisome--exc...

I had some role in coming up with these statistics in the New York Times, though I thought it was more li...

Thanksgiving is the beginning of peak travel season, and what did I read this morning? That 1 in 138 checked bags gets lost....