Young Negotiators

U.S. trade envoys had agreed to restrict beef exports to cattle less than 30 months old. Even so, 10,000 South Koreans rallied against the imports as President Lee Myung Bak struggled to regain the trust of the public.

The “single European sky” plan calls for a consolidation of air traffic control, which is currently divided into 650 units administered from 60 air traffic control centers in 27 nations.

Many more uniquely domestic comedies are not performing as well as other American movies abroad, posing a problem for Hollywood, which depends on foreign markets for roughly half of its total revenue.

Homes are a new arena for LEED ratings, environmental badges of honor usually given to commercial buildings.

India’s supply of arable land is second only to that of the U.S., but it must buy some foods on international markets, exacerbating a global food crisis.

An energy meeting in Saudi Arabia underscored how few options the world has to push oil prices down from their record levels.

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New software promises to correct harmonic mistakes in music as easily as other software now fixes the red eyes in digital photographs.

Frequent topics of discussion these days include the interruptions of working in the digital age, the mistakes we make while multitasking and the efforts to find quiet places to think.

An approach to runaway executive pay might involve looking at potential conflicts of interest that compensation consultants may have as they provide other services to companies as well.

Many college graduates will soon be wondering whether they should aggressively pay off their student loan debt or let it linger and make monthly payments for the next 10 years or even decades to come.

FOLEY, Mo., June 21 — Weary neighbors of the Mississippi River are bracing for yet another wave of high water that could test soggy levees and the spirit of thousands of volunteers who have labored to outwit and outmuscle the worst flood to hit the American heartland in years.

ATLANTIC CITY — As he grapples with one of the country’s worst fiscal crises, Gov. Jon S. Corzine crosses New Jersey sounding a bit like a budgetary Grim Reaper, darkly warning audiences of the pain already inflicted and the suffering still to come.

The greatest mystery in the tumult of the current housing and mortgage crises lies in two words that are turning out to be hollow: risk management.

In the two weeks since Barack Obama became the presumptive Democratic nominee, John McCain has demonstrated a knack for driving the daily political debate, forcing his opponent to respond to a challenge to meet in town hall debates, accusing him of being “delusional” about terrorism and saying he…

Lawsuits over the subprime mess and other recent financial calamities will probably drag on for years, making it worth looking for companies that benefit from our love of litigation.

Q I recently heard that a cousin’s son is attending our state university free, with a state-funded scholarship for brilliant students. His parents are millionaires and could easily pay the boy’s college expenses themselves.

The environmental fervor sweeping college campuses has reached beyond the push to recycle plastics and offer organic food and is transforming the curriculum, permeating classrooms, academic majors and expensive new research institutes.

Fund managers around the world have become an awfully gloomy bunch. Peering into the future, they detect a gathering tide of declining profits, higher interest rates and rising inflation, according to this month’s Merrill Lynch survey of asset allocations and market expectations.

The airline industry and embassies of 34 countries, including the members of the European Union, are urging the U.S. government to withdraw a plan that would require airlines and cruise lines to collect digital fingerprints of all foreigners before they depart the United States, starting in August…