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The Big Picture: The News in Photos
Cool-Breeze Air Conditioning supervisor Mike Trent (left) and recently hired Mike Turner install an air conditioner in a Miami Beach hotel on Jan. 6, 2012. The most recent jobs report indicated that 200,000 jobs were created in December, and the unemployment rate dropped to 8.5 percent. Former Boyz II Men member Michael McCary (second from…
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Mixed Reactions to Fort Monroe Monument
On Tuesday President Obama called on his authority under the rarely evoked Antiquities Act, which lets presidents restrict the use of federally owned land, by designating America’s newest national monument. Adding to the list of places that enjoy this protection, such as the Statue of Liberty and the Grand Canyon, Obama selected Fort Monroe —…
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Daily Job Lead: Senior Project Manager
The Hackworth Group in Minneapolis is seeking an office-based senior project manager with medical-device experience. The project manager will be responsible for managing study teams, budgets and forecasting; formulating relevant study documents; and evaluating study objectives and monitoring timelines. The ideal candidate must have a bachelor of science degree in life science, with a minimum…
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Kenya Lifts Itself Up by Its Tech Bootstraps
As many African countries struggle to achieve widespread economic growth and to escape from just being raw agricultural and mineral producers, change is occurring in Kenya, home to East Africa’s largest economy. There, information technology is being used as a springboard for growth. One aspect of that drive is Konza Technology City. The ground breaking…
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Stop Racist Halloween Costumes!
Halloween is nothing like it used to be. I was a late-October baby, and my childhood birthday pictures swap cakes and candles for ghosts and ghouls. Two Halloweens in a row I was a “movie star,” which in 1989 meant a long “red carpet” dress from the thrift store and really, really big sunglasses. But…
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What Happened to Juan Williams?
This is a painful story to write because I’ve considered Juan Williams a friend since we covered Jesse Jackson’s first presidential campaign back in 1984, when Juan was with the Washington Post and I was with Time magazine. We attended the same Episcopal church in Washington before I moved to Richmond, Va., a few years…
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Herman Cain's Stance on Gays Doesn't 'Wash'
In a blog entry, Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart upbraids GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain for his insistence that he be shown evidence that being gay is an inherent trait like skin color. Capehart writes that he himself is black and gay and had no choice in either matter. Herman Cain’s insistence that he be shown…
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Should Men Really Get Prostate-Cancer Tests?
A federal panel’s controversial recommendation that healthy men older than 50 avoid a PSA-based prostate screening test is drawing scorn from some doctors. The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, an independent panel of medical experts, evaluated studies involving 300,000 men conducted in nine countries, including the United States, to issue its determination that PSA screenings,…
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What Has Been the Impact of Anita Hill?
Twenty years ago Anita Hill, University of Oklahoma law professor and private citizen, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee and threw a giant monkey wrench into the well-oiled, old-boys machine that was rubber-stamping Clarence Thomas’ confirmation to the Supreme Court. Of course, to the shock and lingering dismay of many (Thurgood Marshall still sits somewhere…
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Keith Clinkscales to Leave ESPN
Keith Clinkscales, who had supervised ESPN’s publications and a media incubator that produced such prize-winning movies and specials as “30 for 30,” is leaving the network after six years, an ESPN spokesman confirmed Friday. Crystal Howard, a spokeswoman for Clinkscales, said it was his decision, citing Clinkscales’ entrepreneurial temperament. Clinkscales, 47, was president and CEO…