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More small business owners are firing employees rather than hiring
In the last year, more U.S. small businesses were giving employees the boot rather than hiring, a recent survey found. The Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey reported a net hiring index of -12 in April, down from -9 for the same period the...
Tags: Photography Supplies and Services, Religion and Belief, Photography and Video, Business, Eastman Kodak Company
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Trying too hard to deal with Iran
Iran's presidential election is again inviting speculation about which candidate can nudge the Islamic Republic toward moderation and pragmatism. Such conjectural games miss the point that the theocratic state is defined by an ideology that demonizes...
Tags: Religion and Belief, September 11, 2001 Attacks, Elections, Iran, Tehran (Iran)
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Science and History
SCIENCE The Cancer Chronicles Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery George Johnson Knopf, $27.95 After his wife was diagnosed with a metastatic cancer, New York Times science writer Johnson embarked on an intense and comprehensive exploration of...
Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Arts and Culture, Religion and Belief, Science, Labor Legislation
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For 'Dexter' actor Sean Patrick Flanery, jiujitsu is an unbeatable workout
Sean Patrick Flanery plays an ex-cop in the eighth season of TV's "Dexter," starting June 30, and a music teacher in the new film "Broken Horses." But there's another big role in his life: Flanery, 47, teaches and trains in Brazilian jiujitsu at his own...
Tags: Sean Patrick Flanery, Celebrities, Religion and Belief
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Home price gains propel U.S. stocks
Home prices are soaring at a pace not seen since the housing boom, giving a much-needed boost to the larger economy. The rebound is helping homeowners recover losses from the crash and giving them confidence to spend. And that's raising the fortunes...
Tags: Phoenix (music group), Consumer Confidence, Religion and Belief, Rentals, Prices
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Cannes 2013: Chile's onetime cult king still the wizard of weird
CANNES, France — The Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky has made only seven features in his nearly half-century career, but his legendary midnight movie "El Topo," a wigged-out peyote western that played to New York audiences for months in 1970,...
Tags: Star Wars (movie), Psychotherapy, Judaism, Nick Nolte, Arts and Culture
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Dr. Joyce Brothers, famed TV psychologist, dies at 85
Dr. Joyce Brothers, a psychologist who became a pop-culture fixture after she turned to radio and television in the late 1950s to tend to the nation’s psyche, has died. She was 85. Brothers died Monday in New York City, publicist Sanford Brokaw...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Psychology, Cornell University, Medical Specialization, Psychologists
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Saul Bass: American flair, Soviet aesthetics, with a Brubeck beat
Google paid animated homage Wednesday to iconic designer and artist Saul Bass with one of its more lively Doodles. To mark what would have been the movie title designer’s 93rd birthday, the Google cartoon recaps several of Bass’ films...
Tags: Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, North by Northwest (movie), Religion and Belief, Dave Brubeck
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Hedda Bolgar dies at 103; renowned psychoanalyst
Hedda Bolgar, a psychologist old enough to have attended Sigmund Freud's lectures in Vienna but youthful enough to have treated patients until just a few weeks ago, has died. She was 103. Her mind was sharp, her zest for work keen, and her social...
Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Zurich (Swiss Confederation), Psychotherapy, Health Treatments, Religion and Belief
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Goldberg: Niall Ferguson's blooper
At an investment conference last week, Harvard historian Niall Ferguson created a huge mess for himself. He glibly speculated that maybe because economist John Maynard Keynes was a childless, "effete" homosexual, he embraced a doctrine that favored...
Tags: Awards and Prizes, Religion and Belief, Federal Reserve, Same-Sex Marriage, Family Planning
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Preakness host Maryland's horse racing in optimistic state
BALTIMORE — It is difficult to be at the Preakness this year without feeling a tinge of jealousy. That is especially true if you are just a few days removed from a visit to the current dungeon of California racing, a.k.a. Hollywood Park. All...
Tags: Churchill Downs, Triple Crown, Horse and Harness Racing, Religion and Belief, Inner Harbor
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James Tolbert dies at 86; lawyer pressed Hollywood on civil rights
In a Hollywood auditorium, James L. Tolbert tried to induce a room packed with broadcasting and advertising executives to essentially join the civil rights movement in 1963 by pointing out the obvious. "We Negroes watch 'Bonanza' and buy Chevrolets....
Tags: Loyola University New Orleans, Ford Motor Co., Media Industry, Redd Foxx, Rentals
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