Withering Glance: Changing rooms, for the worse

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune

RN: No, I just spent a few minutes inside the dressing room at a major American retailer, and it was such a pigsty that it made my work cubicle and its post-tornadic appearance look like a your average Wal ...
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10 Reasons To Quit Your Job Right Now!

Source: TechCrunch

The game is over. That game where they get to hire you for 40 years, pay you far less than you create, and then give you a gold watch, and then you get bored, you get depressed, and you die alone. It wasn’t that fun of ...
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De Urbanization - Population Strategy for PEI?

Source: Robert Paterson's Weblog

My niece sold her 700 square foot 2 bed condo in downtown Toronto for about $350,000. Young people are on the high wire in terms of their costs in a big city. Rather than trying to employ existing Islanders here on PEI in call centres - could we not ...
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Ink's dining guide: The flavors of love

Source: KansasCity.com

A lot of ingredients go into opening a new restaurant. Inspiration. Hard work. Hunger for success. And an enormous dash of audacity. Here’s a taste of five new Kansas City eateries with owners who follow that recipe. On the menu: a fresh soda fo ...
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Technology Will Lead to De-Urbanization

Source: Big Think

Since the industrial revolution, humanity has flocked to the cities, where jobs are plentiful and centralized services make inhabitants' lives easier. However, technology is gradually beginning to reverse this trend. People who have alw ...
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'Istanbul': A Twisted Tale Of Foreign Espionage

Source: WNYC | New York Public Radio

The big war is over, and the Cold War has just begun. Leon Bauer, an American tobacco man, wonders how to fit into this new world. Bauer and his wife, Anna, a German Jew, made it to Istanbul just before World ...
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How to get lucky: Making serendipity work for your career

Source: CNN

You can learn to make the most of chance opportunities, says Thor Muller. STORY HIGHLIGHTS We can learn to harness serendipity as a rigorous business practice, says Thor Muller Serendipity is the ability to ...
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Sex in the city: Meeting India's No. 2 sexologist

Source: Firstpost

by Bishwanath Ghosh Editor's Note: Chennai has the reputation of being conservative and orthodox. But as Bishwanath Ghosh writes in his new book Tamarind City, many of India's most modern institutions from the army to the ...
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From Financial Advisor to Occupier

Source: The Tyee

Former investment advisor Suresh Fernando: 'After a while, you realize you are just playing a game with people's future.' Photo by Colleen Kimmett. Peaceful and boisterous, Vancouver's occupiers joined a global outcry that it's time to redistribute ...
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