Not all college majors are created equal. So says the Washington, D.C.-based business forecast publisher and personal finance advice company Kiplinger. Based on its research of the employment rates of graduates, it has identified the top 10 majors least likely to get you a job.
It took almost exactly 60 years to the day for three Kenyans to hear the words they’d spent most of their adult lives waiting for—the words saying that the tortures they experienced at the hands of the British colonial government were “arguable cases in law.”
We all know that Twitter is a marketer’s dream. Who would have known a few years back that in 2012 a celebrity’s public relations strategy would entail typing a sentence about where they just picked their nose, and as a result gain a couple hundred new fans.
A shame-faced politician in a well-tailored suit walks up to a podium with his wife and supporters dutifully lined up behind him—it doesn’t bode well. It’s usually a sign that an explanation or apology of sorts is imminent. Anthony Weiner, Bill Clinton, Eliot Spitzer, Richard Perry…the list is endless.
A couple weeks ago, a national headline made many of us wonder if we hadn’t all been transported back 100-plus years.
The other day someone said to me, “As a voter, I feel impotent.”
We were reminiscing about four years ago, when there seemed to be so much hope in the air—hope that things could and would change and that our vote was part of making that happen.
It’s safe to say most of us are sick of hearing, “Portland is where young people go to retire.” Problem is, anyone who has watched the show Portlandia, which coined the overused phrase, will inevitably ask you if it’s true when they find out you’re from the city. As with most jokes, there are always people who think you couldn’t possibly have heard it before.
It’s all about percentages.
For more than a year, we’ve been a country of the 99 and the 1 percent. If you count yourself among the 99 percent, you’ve proudly worn the label as a badge of honor because, heck, it sets us apart from immoral, corporate greed. If you land in the other category, it’s been easier to just not advertise the fact and hope no one notices.
As our nation commemorated the 11th anniversary of the attacks, it marked another year of remembering the most traumatic national event our generation has seen. Flags flew at half-mast, the president spoke to us, we saw the footage of Ground Zero again and…we remembered.
Issue surrounding Olympic uniforms snips at excess thread The Olympic Games are almost over and, as we root for our nation’s gold medal tally to keep rising, distraught members of…
In a study of 11 industrialized countries, it was discovered that American women are most likely to skip visiting a doctor because of the cost. The survey, conducted by the Commonwealth Fund, revealed that in 2010, 43 percent of American women between the ages of 19 and 64 did not see a doctor or take medication for financial reasons—compared to 7 percent of women in Great Britain and 8 percent in the Netherlands.