NEW YORK | Wed May 16, 2012 4:21pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) – Sprint Nextel believes U.S. regulators are open to large telecom deals despite their opposition to an AT&T Inc deal last year, but Sprint itself will try to avoid doing a big deal until 2014, according to Chief Executive Dan Hesse. Hesse said [...]

By DIANA MIDDLETON With so much competition for every job listing out there—there are more than 6.1 job seekers for every job opening, according to the latest job-opening and turnover data from the U.S. Department of Labor—wowing a recruiter during a job interview is even more crucial. According to a new survey of nearly 500 [...]

By ZAKARY PELACCIO Raymond Hom for The Wall Street Journal, Food Styling by Brett Kurzweil, Prop Styling by DSM MILD FIRE | Korean dried chili threads (called sil gochu) add a touch of spice to sweet and salty pork. MY CRAVING FOR NOODLES knows no bounds. From the doughiest hand-rolled pici to the overcooked spaghetti [...]

1. Visit a hipster village made from shipping containers. Container City Container City in Puebla In the San Andrés district of the town of Cholula, in the shadow of Tlachihualtepetl pyramid, a group of young entrepreneurs has been channeling Brooklyn. Their 54,000-square-foot Container City is built from recycled shipping boxes, brightly painted and stacked. The [...]

By MARY PILON A college education may not be worth as much as you think. For years, higher education was touted as a safe path to professional and financial success. Easy money, in the form of student loans, flowed to help parents and students finance degrees, with the implication that in the long run, a [...]

By MARC MYERS Liverpool, England The black SUV pulled up at 11 a.m. and a man with a shock of white hair hopped out from the driver’s side. Sporting a trendy herringbone coat, a long gray scarf, tight black jeans and sharp black-leather slip-ons, Mike McCartney looked remarkably like his brother, Paul—but with more angular [...]

by Gillian Flynn Hardcover, 416 pages | purchase More on this book: Darkly funny, suspenseful and cunningly plotted, Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl will be published June 5. In this exclusive selection from the book’s opening, we meet Nick and Amy, the seemingly perfect couple whose alternating chapters soon reveal them to be unreliable narrators — [...]

Release Date: 03/13/2012Contact Information: Mike Basile, (716) 551-4410, basile.michael@epa.gov or Elias Rodriguez, 212-637-3664, rodriguez.elias@epa.gov (New York, N.Y.) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced it has added the Eighteen Mile Creek site in Niagara County, New York to the Superfund National Priorities List of the country’s most hazardous waste sites. Sediment in some areas of [...]

Story By: All Things Considered An enormous chalkboard appeared in Washington, D.C., last weekend with a heading that read: “Before I Die…” Passersby were encouraged to write down items on their bucket lists — things they would like to get done before they die. Sophie Miller and Dan Meredith erected that board, and they tell [...]

Story By: by Richard Harris They’re calling it a “rogue earthquake.” On April 11 of this year, one of the 10 biggest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Indonesia. It was felt from Bangladesh to Australia. You may not have even heard of this magnitude 8.6 quake. It barely made the news in [...]