Over the last 12 months, the CPI-U advanced 1.1 percent. (See chart 1 .) Energy prices decreased 5.1 percent, primarily the result of a decrease in the price of gasoline. The index for all items less food and energy increased 1.8 percent over the year.
TED is a nonpartisan nonprofit devoted to spreading ideas, usually in the form of short, powerful talks. TED began in 1984 as a conference where Technology, Entertainment and Design converged, and today covers almost all topics â from science to business to global issues â in more than 110 languages. Meanwhile, independently run TEDx events help share ideas in communities around the world.
NEW YORK (APBnews.com) -- Ted Bundy was a young Republican, law student, avid skier, crisis hotline volunteer and the boy next door. He was also a cannibal, necrophiliac, charismatic sociopath and the man whose name came to define the term serial killer for the 20th century.