Stressed out at work? You’re not alone; statistics show 40% of workers think their job is very stressful. Another statistic shows ¼ of employees view their jobs as the number one stress in their lives....
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All signs displaying the message 'Men Working' or Men at Work' in Atlanta Georgia are going to have to be repainted after a campaign by the editor of a local women's magazine claimed they were sexist.More than 50...
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It's the second underground fire in Toronto in a week, and the third in Canada this month after last week's power-cutting Vancouver fire. While this one wasn't nearly as serious, hundreds of people were left without...
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"Cashing in on Old Wisdom
India's traditional weavers, heirs to a 2,000-year-old textile industry, are turning to the ancient practice of
ayurvedic medicine to make their products more appealing and boost sales....
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Frowned upon by society, idleness is seen as wasting time, wasting potential and is generally regarded as a synonym of laziness. Reading ‘How to be Free’ by Tom Hodgkinson, however, has fleshed out my tendency to...
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UK government officials are proposing that benefit claimants be put to work. Under the new initiative, claimants would owe four weeks community service after a year of unemployment, and would have to work full-time...
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"Emergency Beijing Olympic pollution scheme begins By Ben Blanchard Reuters - Sunday, July 20 12:01 pmBEIJING (Reuters) - Beijingers breathed easier on Sunday as traffic restrictions and factory closures came into effect in a last ditch attempt to turn the often...
"y Son, the Blogger: An M.D. Trades Medicine for Apple Rumors Sign In to E-Mail or Save This Print Reprints ShareDiggFacebookMixxYahoo! BuzzPermalink By BRIAN STELTER Published: July 21, 2008...
"Eight days after Apple’s new iPhone went on sale, an international team of programmers announced on Saturday that the device had been “pwned” — hacker jargon for “controlled” or “compromised.” The...
I know that my view on this will not be popular with many but I must say that I fail to understand the Irish Government's attitude when it comes to "illegal" immigrants. If the illegal immigrant is Irish and is working in the US they are really "good guys" contributing to...
"Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund Paul Graham July 2008 When we read Y Combinator applications there are always ideas we're hoping to see. In the past we've never said publicly what they are. If we say we're...
"Just over three-years since whistleblower John Francis Smith died in a filthy NHS hospital, the Director General of MI5 has told his family that no data can be released relating to his Government Service because of...
"We all the mac fans have much in common, we love our fruity company and its products, the mac os x, the Newton makes us cry and the Classic gives us rejoice… 14 years and still running, but there is one thing that is inseparable of mac users is that we are hardcore gamers...