Dale Winston helps companies fill executive job openings with top talent. But before began she recruiting corporate leaders, she gained experience enlisting a very different group of workers – young moms. Here's a look at her career in matchmaking.

If Barbara Desoer can fix the mess at Countrywide as the new head of Bank of America's mortgage operation, BofA's star -- as well as her own -- will surely rise on Wall Street.

For women on Wall Street, personal attacks about appearance, attire and decorum are a reminder of how far they haven't come. Women are told by bosses that they'll rise or fall on their individual performance yet they're constantly judged along other lines.

As director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Anne-Imelda M. Radice has launched "Connecting to Collections: A Call to Action," aimed at enhancing conservation and preservation of everything from digital information to zoo animals. Her work earned her the Forbes Medal, awarded by the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works.

Betancourt embraced her children for the first time in six years, saying the thought of them helped her stay alive during her time in captivity. The former Colombian presidential candidate was one of 15 hostages, including three U.S. military contractors, freed after being held by leftist FARC rebels.

Tennis star Zheng Jie's recent grass-court victories, coupled with pledges to donate her share of the Wimbledon and French Open prize money to the earthquake-relief efforts have made her something of an icon.

The growing separateness of couples' lives is drawing attention to the need to shore up emotional ties between spouses. The trend has become so prevalent that researchers are altering the structure of traditional marriage-education programs.

Scientists have found that when humans lose 10% or more of their body weight, the hormone leptin falls rapidly, setting off physiological changes that act to put weight back on. The latest study shows that these metabolic changes are mirrored in altered brain activity that makes resisting food more difficult.

Surgeons are offering an added benefit to breast-cancer patients: removing the tumor and cosmetically repairing the breast at the same time. This "oncoplastic surgery" could minimize the number of times a patient must go under the knife.

The competition for jobs can seem age-biased in our youth-obsessed culture. At 49, Lisa Johnson Mandell found her career "kind of sputtering." So she started making herself look younger in ways other than surgery, starting with erasing some age lines on her résumé.