Penn State Live - University Park, Pa. -- Ben Stein, author, economist and pop culture icon, is the third speaker in Penn State’s 2009-10 Student Programming Association Distinguished Speaker Series. Stein will speak at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 3, in Eisenhower Auditorium at Penn State's University Park campus.

The event is free and open to the public but tickets are required for admittance. Tickets will be available for students -- two issued per I.D. -- on Wednesday, Jan. 20, and available to faculty, staff and the general public on Wednesday, Jan. 27, based on availability.

Stein, who graduated from Yale Law School in 1970, has

CitizenLink - Colorado Springs, CO, USA - Ben Stein's new documentary, Expelled, which chronicles the censorship of teachers, professors and students who question the theory of Darwinian evolution, performed well at the box office over the weekend.

It's a message that garnered Dr. James Dobson's endorsement and seems to resonate with Americans. The documentary, which opened Friday at 1,000 theaters nationwide, brought in $3.2 million. It finished fifth overall in per-theater earnings, according to Box Office Mojo.

Tom Neven, editorial director for Youth Outreach at Focus on the Family, called it a "very good showing."

"It shows that thousands of Americans decided to ignore the propaganda being put forth by

Colgate University News & Events - Hamilton, NY, USA - Actor, lawyer, author, game-show host, and former White House speechwriter Ben Stein advised students crammed into Memorial Chapel Tuesday night on how they could “ruin” their lives.

Stein has published 16 books, including How to Ruin your Financial Life and How to Ruin your Love Life. Students erupted in laughter as he provided advice dripping with sarcasm:

-- Don’t learn any useful skills. Just play video games or listen to rap music.
-- Don’t learn any self-discipline. Just be a big baby all your life. Don’t study or deny yourself anything.
-- Convince yourself that you are the center of the universe. Truth is,

NARREIA - Las Vegas, NV, USA - There is a lot of talk about how the sub-prime mortgage industry is wreaking havoc on the global economy. I'll have to admit that I'm not econo-geeky enough to understand how the T-Bonds are connected to the LIBOR-bone, and the LIBOR-bone is connected to the Yeild Curve-bone, or any of the other tangled, intricate web of how the lending industry is interrelated. But I do get that when 20% of the buyers are no longer able to obtain loans, it's a serious impact on the supply and demand equation.

But my view is quite myopic, focusing on how the mortgage lending

CNNMoney.com - USA - It's no longer possible to win Ben Stein's money. But there is one thing we can gain from the actor-cum-economist: financial advice served up with a dose of humor. Fortune's Ellen Florian Kratz asked Stein to answer Fortune readers' questions about retirement and added some of her own regarding his homebuying addiction and his dislike of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson.

What do you recommend for a portfolio distribution in light of the collapsing dollar and peak oil? - Joseph Scheppe, Morgantown, W.Va.

First of all, I don't know that we are at peak oil. What I generally recommend for the noncash portion