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'Best cover letter' claims 'no unbelievably special skills'
Remember “Impossible is Nothing,” the bloated video resume from Yale University student Aleksey Vayner that went viral in the worst way in 2006? Wall Street turned Vayner into a laughingstock upon viewing him bench-pressing heavy weights,...
Tags: Colleges and Universities, Employees, Career and Workplace, Education
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Da Chen on his new novel, 'My Last Empress.' He's in L.A. Thursday
Da Chen hit bestseller lists in 1999 with his first book, the memoir "Colors of the Mountain." That, and its sequel, "Sounds of the River," told of the hardships he experienced while growing up in China during the Cultural Revolution. Chen had moved...
Tags: Ghosts (supernatural entities), Apple iPad, China, Columbia University, Research
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Fashion that's perennially preppy
Los Angeles TimesNEW YORK — The quintessential Ivy League look, born on college campuses more than a century ago and epitomized by tweed jackets, seersucker suits, khaki trousers and button-down oxford-cloth shirts, hit the peak of its popularity in the mid-1950s,...Tags: Entertainment, Entertainment Events, Companies and Corporations, Fashion Trends, Museums
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‘Halloween’: John Carpenter classic returns for theatrical run
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - latimes.comMichael Myers, the masked silent Shape that emerged from the shadows of Haddonfield, Ill., to stalk generations of moviegoers, will ...... -
Halloween experiment shows Michelle Obama's health campaign works
As President Obama and Mitt Romney make a last-minute push for votes, First Lady Michelle Obama can already chalk up a small victory for her campaign to fight childhood obesity. In a semi-scientific study conducted on the front porch of a Yale University...
Tags: Barack Obama, Holidays, Government, Science and Technology, Politics
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James Franco to teach a USC film production class next spring
The registrar's office at the University of Southern California is about to get very busy. James Franco, the actor-Oscar-host-soap-star-artist-poet-novelist, is set to teach a film production class at USC next spring, according to an email sent to USC...
Tags: James Franco, Colleges and Universities, New York University, Columbia University, University of Southern California
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PASSINGS: Richard B. Scudder, Barton Biggs
Richard B. Scudder Co-founder of MediaNews Group Richard B. Scudder, 99, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died...
Tags: Financial Markets, New York University, Radio Industry, Music, James Gorman
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Cravings could be defeated with two little words
Why is it that we crave chocolate chip cookies rather than chard? Or bread instead of broccoli? Take heart: It's biological. "Our attraction to sweets — and salt, carbohydrates and fat — is hard-wired from the Stone Age," says Dr. David Katz,...
Tags: Pies and Tarts, Duke University, Weight, Recipes, Cancer
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Is Machu Picchu reaching its peak?
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterAt the top of the mountain, where an attendant will take your $46 ticket, foot traffic is steady and cellphone reception is excellent. At the bottom of the same mountain, the town teems with pizzerias, tourists chatter in half a dozen languages and a...Tags: Customs and Tradition, Alan Garcia, U.S. Senate, Government, National Government
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Student loans add to angst at Occupy Wall Street
For almost a week, Nate Grant has sat cross-legged on a wall at the Occupy Wall Street encampment, holding a cardboard sign that bears his scrawled grievance: "Students Ought Not Be a Means of Profit."
Strangers have harangued him: "Get a job, you...Tags: Loans, Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Republican Party, U.S. House Committee on the Budget
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Highest-earning grads majored in math and science, study finds
Recent college graduates looking for entry-level work will have an easier time job-hunting than earlier alumni, recent reports are finding. But the students who will make the most money when they emerge from school will be the ones with math- and science-...
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This is your mind on meditation: less wandering, more doing
The brains of experienced meditators appear to be fitter, more disciplined and more "on task" than do the brains of those trying out meditation for the first time. And the differences between the two groups are evident not only during meditation, when...Tags: Apple iPhone, Medical Research, Vince Lombardi, Columbia University, Health
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