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As commencement approaches, this year’s graduating seniors can look forward to pep talks about how employable humanities majors are. “Upon graduating from college, those who majored in the humanities and social science made, on average, $26,271 in 2010 and 2011, slightly more than those in science and mathematics but less than those in engineering and in professional and pre-professional fields,” Vartan Gregorian writes in the Carnegie Reporter. “However, by their peak earning age of 56 to 60, these individuals earned $66,185, putting them about $2,000 ahead of professional and pre-professional majors in the same age bracket.“ “Further, employers want to...

Beginning next school year, students across the country may be in for a shock when they purchase their lunch in the cafeteria. In an effort to fight childhood obesity and diabetes, the federal government is requiring students of all ages to buy at least one serving of fresh fruit or vegetable for lunch. Even if they toss the produce into the garbage. Fresh fruit and vegetable portions will double next year. “Some students don’t take one now, but they will have to,” Eileen Faustich, Milford’s food services director, said Friday. “We can’t let a child go by the cashier without...

Stock markets suffered another torrid day as traders on both sides of the Atlantic dumped shares on rumours of a downgrade of France’s credit rating and growing concerns over the eurozone economies. Asian markets were also down this morning, although they clawed back some of their losses later in the trading session. Japan's Nikkei slid 0.6pc, after falling as much as 2.3pc, while the Hang Seng fell 1.2pc in Hong Kong, after losing 2.6pc earlier in the day. Last night, a 3pc decline in the FTSE 100, down 157.76 to 5007.16, knocked £41bn off the blue-chip index. It has now...

Seven years ago George bush and the republicans gave a tax cut to the wealthy. We had a recesion and as far as Im concerned we never recovered. I was working as a telemarketeer and my husband was at an assembly plant. In 2001 my husband was laid off after his job was outsourced. Then I lost my job too. My husband now works at Target and I held a job at Burger King. A week ago my job was terminated after buisness wasn't so well. Now were in another recession and Bush wants yet another tax cut? If cutting...

I guess my question is, how do we expect to defend ourselves against terrorism? We're fighting a war overseas and we can't even keep it together here! Sure, there have been incidences of foreign terrorists (specifically the WTC in '93 and of course on 9/11 along with the Pentagon and the downing of Flight United 93), but there is domestic terrorism! Does anyone remember Timothy McVeigh or Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris? With the latter mentioned, these were two sick individuals who were planning on a wide scale attack on their school. Fortunately, they weren't able to pull it off...

Assistant manager Donna Summers called Ogborn into her office, locked the door, ordered the teenager to take off her uniform and confiscated her cell phone and car keys. According to reports by the Louisville Courier-Journal and ABC News “Primetime,” the McDonald’s manager demanded that the employee remove her underwear (presumably to be searched for contraband) and confess to the crime. Ogborn was given a greasy apron to cover her naked body and was later forced to do naked jumping jacks and perform a sex act on Summers’ fiance, Walter Nix.

........."This was a man who moved with a surefootedness and determination that if it wasn't ruthlessness, it was just short of it." Terrence Smith.... said that for two decades the take on Rather was "great reporter, awkward anchor." "And, yet, nobody said it in public.... "Now you hear some of the most senior and respected voices at CBS - Andy Rooney, Mike Wallace and Walter Cronkite - saying these things. ... So, the question is: Why the bruising comments as he goes out the door?" Smith suggests that while the flawed story on Bush is a key part of the...