Eerie Photos Of Boston Looking Like A Ghost Town
With police ordering residents to stay in their homes, Boston is a ghost town right now.That is a story in itself.Many folks in the city seem to realize this.They're Tweeting out striking photos...
View ArticleMillions Of Americans Can't Handle The Stress Of Work Anymore
Longtime readers know that I see our system not just as financially sick but as spiritually and psychologically deranging.The illnesses are related, of course—a distorted economic system (i.e....
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7 Industries With Plummeting Wages
Middle class wages, over all, have been pretty stagnant for over a decade. But not everyone's wages have stagnated.In fact, some people have seen their salaries rise at a rosy clip, while many others...
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6 Warning Signs You Should Notice About The Interview
Interviews aren’t just for impressing the interviewer — the interviewee should be impressed, too. When entering the interview process, it’s important to be an observant job candidate. Although you are...
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Lucasfilm Cuts 20-Plus Jobs As Integration With Disney Continues
A week after layoffs at Walt Disney Studios, Lucasfilm was hit this week with pink slips of its own. More than two dozen staff members were laid off, I have learned.The cuts came primarily in the...
View ArticleThe Simplest Way To Increase Happiness Every Day
When people tell me they’ve done their own happiness projects, I always ask, “What resolutions did you try? What worked for you?”One answer comes up more than any other. I’m not saying that this is the...
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How The Boston Bombing Suspect Became A US Citizen
Editor's note: Late Friday, reports emerged that only one of the brothers, Dzhokhar, was a U.S. citizen. This story previously reported brothers were citizens. In April 2002, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev...
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5 People Who Had Everything And Managed To Lose It All
Climbing the ladder of success rung by rung can be a slow process. But once you get there, the opposite experience -- sliding down the chute of economic despair -- can happen all too quickly.Those in...
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Why So Many People Accused An Innocent Man So Quickly In Boston
In the middle of the last night's nearly unbelievable turn of events, for a few hours, hundreds of thousands of people received a message about the identity of the alleged Boston Marathon bombers that...
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Boston Investigation Is A Great Argument For Pervasive Surveillance Cameras
The bombings in Boston and the subsequent investigation of the suspects will likely revive the debate about pervasive security camera surveillance in the U.S. Stationary security cameras near the...
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This Map Shows The Boston Manhunt From Beginning To End
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the remaining suspect in the Boston Marathon attack, has been apprehended alive after authorities pinned him down in a boat in the backyard of a Watertown, Massachusetts, home. Here...
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Boston Suspects Echo The Home-Grown Terrorists In Madrid And London Attacks
As an eighth-grader in a Cambridge public school, suspected Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was quiet, friendly, spoke good English and seemed at home in his adopted country.While hundreds of...
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Get Ready For Massive Takeover Bids In The Telecom Industry...
Bankers involved in mergers and acquisitions have been checking their phones more often than text-crazy teenagers recently, to keep up with a flurry of offers for American mobile-phone companies.On...
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Republicans Should Nominate A Midwestern Candidate In 2016
As we discussed last week, the Democratic Party’s presidential field in 2016 hinges greatly on the decision of one person: Hillary Clinton.The Republican Party’s early primary picture is much more...
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10 Iconic New York City Locations That 'Mad Men' Characters Love To Visit
We love Mad Men and can’t get enough. In addition to the character development, plot twists and 1960s period costumes (which are totally back in style), we love seeing some of our favorite locations in...
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Americans Love To Deplore Violence, But They'll Never Do What's Necessary To...
This post is from The Economist's American politics column, Lexington's Notebook.Bad things can happen even to a good country. That, in essence, is the belief that underlies America’s reaction to the...
View ArticleEL-ERIAN: It's Official — The World Needs To Worry About The Damage Caused By QE
It is now official: "We will be mindful of unintended negative side effects stemming from extended periods of monetary easing." This is how the G-20, the most important country grouping today, put it...
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Millennials Could Be The End Of Salary Secrecy At Work
One long-held taboo of office life is that you're not supposed to talk about what you make. And if you do, oh, you better make sure that whomever you share those private $$-details with can keep his or...
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Supermodel Coco Rocha Is Still Waiting On A Paycheck From 2006
It's no secret: Modeling isn't exactly constant jet-setting glamour, parties, and free clothes. From a lack of legal protection to less-than-ideal compensation, it can be a rough gig.But we always...
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Nothing Will Stop The Self-Driving Car From Taking Over The Roads
SOME inventions, like some species, seem to make periodic leaps in progress.The car is one of them. Twenty-five years elapsed between Karl Benz beginning small-scale production of his original...
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