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"Quantity has a quality all its own" is a phrase that's been popular in U.S. military circles for decades, and is most often attributed to Stalin. It's also variously attributed to Lenin, Mao and...
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David J. Thouless; F. Duncan M. Haldane; J. Michael Kosterlitz; Sir J. Fraser Stoddart; Oliver Hart; Bengt Holmström. What do these five Brits and one Finn have in common, besides their foreign...
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How much debt is too much? There may be no hard and fast rules, but the International Monetary Fund says the total global debt load excluding the financial sector — a record-breaking $152 trillion as...
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You could see trouble coming a mile away, or at least from as far away as your mail box.
Lands' End catalogs started showing up with skinny models adorning the cover, wearing clothes that looked...
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Give employees paid sick leave and they're less likely to arrive at work flu-ridden, which means they're also less likely to spread that sickness around, not only to co-workers but to the general...
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"How America Gives," published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, uses IRS data to determine giving patterns across the country, broken out by income ranges across ZIP codes, counties, and states....
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"How America Gives," published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, uses IRS data to determine giving patterns across the country, broken out by income ranges across ZIP codes, counties, and states....
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Conservatives give more money to charity than liberals. That's the conventional wisdom, anyway, and at least one new study backs that thinking up.
"How America Gives," published by The Chronicle of...
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Nearly 7,000 people were killed by distracted drivers in 2011 and 2012. In 2012 alone, 421,000 people were injured because a driver wasn’t paying attention to her number-one job: the road. The...
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If you lost your job, or your spouse or child suddenly got sick, how would you manage financially? Well, for too many Americans with little saved up in cash or other liquid assets, that kind of...
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Virgin Group's Sir Richard Branson has just announced that a core group of his employees will be able to "take off whenever they want for as long as they want."
"It is left to the employee alone to...
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Six years ago this week, storied Wall Street investment bank Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy as part of the financial crash that led to the worst recession since the Great Depression. Out of...
