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Speaking of losing having jobs. Time, Inc., the magazine empire is poised to layoff 250 employees. Time Inc. CEO, Ann Moore, and Editor-in-Chief, John Huey, recently reported a plan to cut their total work force of 10,200 employees by 600. The four-year-old Cottage Living is being scrapped all together and other magazines (People and Real…

I woke up this morning, with little time to pack a lunch, and thought about what I would eat. Thoughts of a tasty and healthy lunch evaporated as I counted the four bucks left in my wallet. My dejection, however, was curbed as I learned that I’m not the only one turning to the Dollar…

I am the person I am because of something that happened 30 years ago today in Guyana, a tiny equatorial country thousands of miles away from my home.In the years since, every time Nov. 18 arrives, I am visited by an existential unease that falls across my shoulders. It isn’t helped by all the “anniversary”…

With the election of a pro-choice president and little chance of Roe v. Wade being overturned in the near future, some members of the anti-abortion front have turned their attention to reducing the number of abortions rather than eliminating them altogether. The Washington Post reports that this new strategy advocates creating programs to aid pregnant…

Nov. 19, 2008—In the last 10 years, no product has infiltrated our daily lives more than the cellular phone. One of the most widespread images of the recent election was the sight of thousands of people using their cell-phone cameras to share the joy of Obama’s win. People have been texting, e-mailing and tweeting on…

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In the 21st century, piracy has most commonly been used to refer to music and movies. Global economic woes, though, are giving the word back its prior meaning—indicative of black beards and eye-patches. Recently, off the coast of Kenya and elsewhere in the Indian Ocean, oil tankers have fallen victim to pirates looking for ransom.…

Weeks after lining up at polling stations all over the country, record numbers of Americans still have something to wait for — a job. Unemployment surged past last month’s high since Sept. 11, 2001 to reach 516,000.

He ran the first successful Internet campaign, in probably the last election in which a candidate will not use all of the Internet’s capabilities. Now the technologically fluent president-elect may have to retire his beloved BlackBerry and personal e-mail address.

Southern California is being ravaged by fires. In one of the most damaged areas, Yorba Linda, 113 homes have been destroyed. Forecasters predict calming winds in the upcoming weeks.