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Labor Secretary discusses job growth vs. skills gap

Careers & Jobs – As technology becomes more and more a part of our national industries the need for a new skill set is required of workers.

View Story Discuss (0) (dol.gov) 765 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 04, 2006 01:23pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

New job-itis: are they going to fire me?

Careers & Jobs – Some tips about how to measure your success - or failure - at your new job.

View Story Discuss (0) (money.cnn.com) 766 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 04, 2006 02:00am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

Winning the rat race

Careers & Jobs – This article describes how the heirarchies in most workplaces are all part of an economic formula based on "tournament theory," basically, the thing that makes you and me want to strive for more.

View Story Discuss (0) (forbes.com) 766 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 04, 2006 01:29am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

Watching clusters of bird flu deaths

Health & Fitness – If someone dies of bird flu, and then their close relative dies, that's a cluster. Scientists are now focussing on such clusters as they made lead to answers regarding the human-to-human transmisability of H5N1 - bird flu.

View Story Discuss (0) (nytimes.com) 766 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 03, 2006 10:59pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 8 votes / No sinks

Poison Ivy growth boosted by higher CO2 emissions

Science – It's going to take an ocean of calomine lotion!

View Story Discuss (0) (sciencenews.org) 766 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 03, 2006 10:41pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 18 votes / No sinks

Vehement homophobic minister insults fallen soldiers

Religion – This minister holds signs saying soldiers are dying because America is too tolerant of homosexuality. In a poignant, ironic twist veterans in a motorcycle club called the Patriot Guard Riders strap huge US flags to their bikes and keep the engines running to drown out the screaming bigots. Have these people no shame?

View Story Discuss (4) (news.bbc.co.uk) 767 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 02, 2006 08:00pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 11 votes / No sinks

Singing nuns self-exile to India

Religion – 2 Tibetan nuns released from prison in China for protesting are making their way to India to receive medical attention for abuse suffered in prison.

View Story Discuss (0) (in.today.reuters.com) 767 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 02, 2006 07:20pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

Maternal stress could help fetal maturation

Family – Too bad maternal stress doesn't do anything for the kid once it's born. There's sure plenty of it to go around.

View Story Discuss (0) (speroforum.com) 767 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 02, 2006 06:50pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 9 votes / No sinks

New Orleans not ready for hurricane season

Science – Army engineers say that even with their crews working around the clock to repair the damage from Hurricane Katrina, the city of New Orleans will likely need \"divine intervention\" to survive the upcoming storm season, which starts June 1.

View Story Discuss (2) (news.yahoo.com) 806 days ago by Karina

Voted for on June 02, 2006 06:41pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / No sinks

Massive crater found in Antarctica

Science – The crater is twice as big as the one that wiped out the dinosaurs and may be the cause of the largest mass extinction known to man.

View Story Discuss (0) (space.com) 767 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 02, 2006 06:40pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 7 votes / No sinks

FEC determines that Frist campaign broke the law

News – Looks like another top Republican is in the hot seat. This will certainly force the Senate Majority Leader to think hard about whether he should run for President in 2008.

View Story Discuss (0) (seattlepi.nwsource.com) 767 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 02, 2006 04:33pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 52 votes / 1 sink

Hazards of the New Online Collectivism

Gadgets & Tech – Interesting essay on all these socially participant bits floating about the web these days, like Wikipedia, the reading of which the author likens to "reading the bible closely."

View Story Discuss (8) (edge.org) 767 days ago by C.K.

Voted for on June 02, 2006 11:05am

This story has mostly positive ratings. 5 votes / No sinks

6 world powers agree on message to Iran

News – China, Russia, the U.S., France, Britain and Germany have agreed on an offer for Iran. The message: "Halt enrichment program and receive benefits, or reap the whirlwind."

View Story Discuss (0) (news.bbc.co.uk) 767 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 01, 2006 09:21pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / 1 sink

Homeland Security Dept. says NYC has no monuments

News – They discount the Statue of Liberty, you know, the symbol that defines this country and for which our soldiers are dying in Iraq.

View Story Discuss (0) (blogs.abcnews.com) 768 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 01, 2006 08:49pm

This story has mostly positive ratings. 6 votes / 1 sink

Justice Dept. has secret meetings with ISPs over data records

News – The attorney general says that he's chasing ISPs' data records to fight child sexual abuse. If that's the case why isn't he sending subpeonas to the Catholic church?

View Story Discuss (0) (usatoday.com) 768 days ago by Alexia

Voted for on June 01, 2006 08:42pm

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