Would you like for a stranger to silent and still, but present as you do something?Okay, it sounds weird. But it also makes sense. Shoji Morimoto, 38, of Tokyo works as a silent stranger. He tells the Washington Post (pa...

This may sound like a horror movie or a nightmare or an urban legend, but it happened last week in Ohio. A group of Ohio State University students rented a house near campus. To be specific, five students rented the firs...

A new kind of enterprise has joined the long list of businesses that take advantage of the poor. Joining the cadre of payday lenders, pawn shops, unscrupulous used-car dealers is rent-a-tire places, from which consumers...