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In India, Anxiety Over the Slow Pace of Innovation - NYTimes.comIn the United States and Europe, people worry that their well-paying, high-skill jobs will be, in a word, “Bangalored” — shipped off to India. Even as the rest of the world has come to admire, envy and fear India’s outsourcing business and its technological prowess, many Indians are ...
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Groups of Diverse Problem Solvers Can Outperform Groups of High-Ability Problem Solvers- Hide full citation This is the first page of the item you requested. Groups of Diverse Problem Solvers Can Outperform Groups of High-Ability Problem Solvers Lu Hong, Scott E. Page and William J. Baumol Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America , ...
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A New Indian Travel Fad: "Divorce Tourism" - Yahoo! NewsPerhaps it's a case of life imitating bad art. In this year's mirthless Hollywood comedy Couples Retreat: Return to Eden, eight Americans attempt to recharge their foundering marriages by undergoing counseling on a tropical island. At about the same time the movie was disappointing U.S. ...
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75% of Potential Recruits Too Fat, Too Sickly, Too Dumb to Serve | Danger Room | Wired.comMore than three-quarters of the nation’s 17- to 24-year-olds couldn’t serve in the military, even if they wanted to. They’re too fat, too sickly, too dumb, have too many kids, or have copped to using illegal drugs. The armed services are willing to grant waivers for some of those conditions - ...
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Bill Maher: New Rule: No Shame in Being the Sorry PartyIf Mitt Romney, Karl Rove and Sarah Palin all think America has never done anything wrong, we must be doing something wrong. Look at them: an empty suit, an empty heart and an empty head. It looks like the news team on Good Morning Hell. And what they've been competing about lately is who would ...
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From pythons to fungus, species invading USFrom pythons to fungus, species invading US Police measure a Burmese python after removing it from a home in Oxford, Fla. on Wednesday, July 1, 2009. Charles Jason Darnell, the snake's owner and the boyfriend of Shaunnia's mother, discovered the snake missing from its terrarium and went to ...
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U.S. State Department speaks to Twitter over Iran | U.S. | ReutersThe U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it had contacted the social networking service Twitter to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that would have cut daytime service to Iranians who are disputing their election. Confirmation that the U.S. government had contacted Twitter came as the Obama ...
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WHO: Swine flu pandemic has begun, 1st in 41 years - Yahoo! NewsThe World Health Organization told its member nations it was declaring a swine flu pandemic Thursday — the first global flu epidemic in 41 years — as infections climbed in the United States, Europe, Australia, South America and elsewhere. In a statement sent to member countries, WHO said it ...
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Sex Without Intimacy: No Dating, No Relationships : NPRThe hookup — that meeting and mating ritual that started among high school and college students — is becoming a trend among young people who have entered the workaday world. For the many who are delaying the responsibilities of marriage and child-rearing, hooking up has virtually replaced dating. ...
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Why Things Become UnpopularWhy Things Become Unpopular A recent study has found that the fall of an item’s popularity mirrors its rise to popularity, so that items that become popular faster also die out faster, which is demonstrated by name trends. Image caption: Berger and Le Mens. ©2009 PNAS. (PhysOrg.com) -- "Why ...
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