"Every time you think you've turned the corner, there's another risk factor looming out there," said Frank Hefner, director of the office of economic analysis at the College of Charleston. Buyers cash in on Grand Strand real estate A s the Grand Strand real estate market recovers from its collapse, what used to be the

Some other protective measures, like the ones taken at the College of Charleston, make it harder for the bugs to get a foothold. Randy Beaver, the College of Charleston's director of environmental health and safety, says his office investigates a room whenever a student thinks he has bedbugs. In the three years he's been in

To put that in perspective, one's odds of winning the big prize are not much improved by actually buying a ticket, economist Doug Walker said. He is an associate professor at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Walker said some, but not all, state lotteries are faring better than other forms of gambling in

This week, the National Council of Churches was scheduled to hold a symposium called "Language Matters" in Chicago. The meeting was inspired at least in part by the perception that "the use of gender-inclusive language throughout our NCC member communion churches has declined," the council noted in a news release last week. The news was