Despite increasing popular support for solar photovoltaic panels in the United States, their costs far outweigh the benefits, according to a new analysis by Severin Borenstein, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business and director of the UC Energy Institute.

The Foreign Policy Association and the USC Center on Public Diplomacy at the Annenberg School, based at the University of Southern California are pleased to announce the launch of a collaborative Web log on "Public Diplomacy and the U.S. Presidential Elections." It can be viewed at http://publicdiplomacy.foreignpolicyblogs.com/.

The southern border of the United States has seen a tremendous boom in economic development activity over the last decade. Investors are discovering what is amounting to a modern day gold rush happening specifically on the Texas/Mexico border.

China's economic juggernaut may be forcing a change in attitudes around what makes a good worker, says a study by two researchers at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management.