Using Your Easy-Bake Oven Is About to Become Difficult

The Easy-Bake Oven is falling victim to the fight against global warming. The incandescent light bulbs that heat the toy ovens are being phased out in 2012 in favor of energy-efficient compact fluorescents. But precisely becaus…

Japan Finds No Link Between Vaccines and Child Deaths

Japan’s health ministry says it’s continuing its suspension of pediatric vaccines made by Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis, despite finding no connection between the vaccines and the deaths of four children. Both drugmakers are cooper…

Five Investing Rules You Can Learn From Kids

Looking at investing from a child’s perspective can be eye-opening. And you don’t need to have kids of your own to heed these lessons. Here are five tips for thinking like a child — and turning that into some grown-up profits….

‘Sesame Street’ Coming to New Children’s Museum

“Sesame Street” will soon have a place in the National Children’s Museum. The creators of the long-running children’s show are developing an interactive area at the facility, slated to open near Washington D.C. in 2013.
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Highly Educated Women Pay a High Price to Have Children

Highly skilled women will lose about a quarter of a million dollars, or as much as a third of their lifetime earnings, by choosing to have a child, making the prospect of raising a family a far more expensive one for college gr…