You can't beat the return on investment the Powerball jackpot winner got last Saturday -- $590.5 million on a $2 lottery ticket. But if you're really serious about leveraging dollars for your family, life insurance is a smarter bet than the lottery. Both are built around the leveraging concept, says Jim Saulnier, a Certified Financial Planner in Fort Collins, Colo. ...

You can't beat the return on investment the Powerball jackpot winner got last Saturday -- $590.5 million on a $2 lottery ticket. But if you're really serious about leveraging dollars for your family, life insurance is a smarter bet than the lottery. Both are built around the leveraging concept, says Jim Saulnier, a Certified Financial Planner in Fort Collins, Colo. ...

by Leah Koenig Virtually every refrigerator, whether a well-stocked Sub-Zero or a college dorm mini-fridge, has one thing in common: a bottle of mustard. The sharp yellow condiment has become an essential part of American cuisine, slathered on foods from soft pretzels to hot dogs and stirred into dressings and marinades. So beloved is the piquant sauce that there's an ...

by Robert Simonson Years ago, I had little use for the daiquiri. I regarded it as a fruity, frothy, adolescent concoction, made for injudicious college drinking and the "specialty cocktail" page at chain restaurants, all too often impregnated with artificial colors and flavors. Then something changed: Mixologists rediscovered the drink. Using careful techniques and artisan rums, they started pouring daiquiris ...

When economist Dambisa Moyo writes about the challenges facing African nations, she draws in part on her own roots and the great distance she has traveled since growing up in Zambia in the 1970s. She left her native country midway through college and went on to pursue graduate degrees at Harvard and Oxford. She later worked at the World Bank ...