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  • Online Classes Mean No Dorm, Gym or Debt

    Simon Johnson, bloomberg.com Numer­ous arti­cles and com­men­taries from inside and out­side of acad­e­mia are rais­ing the alarm that Amer­i­can pub­lic high­er edu­ca­tion faces an unprece­dent­ed finan­cial cri­sis. For years, state leg­is­la­tures have been dis­in­vest­… RT @BloombergNews: Jeb Bush & Randy Best: Online classes mean no dorm, gym or debt | http://flip.it/YsCYp (via @BloombergView) http://flip.it/cbBuR Online…

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  • Cars That Depreciate In Value The Most

    investopedia.com Ford isn’t the only car­mak­er that saw the value of one of its mod­els sink like an anchor when it hit the lot. The Mazda RX didn’t live up to its hype, and sales of the car dropped. The highly-touted Nis­san Leaf, one of the first all-electric… Cars That Depreciate In Value The Most…

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  • Tim Cook’s Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks

    businessweek.com In his most wide-ranging interview since succeeding Steve Jobs, Tim Cook talks about how the company now works, the view that he’s “robotic,” and the return of Apple manufacturing to the U.S. http://flip.it/MNo7N Tim Cook’s Freshman Year: The Apple CEO Speaks Related articles Apple ‘Less Arrogant’ Under Tim Cook, Says France Telecom CEO (mashable.com)

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  • Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email

    lifehack.org So, you were look­ing for a great alter­na­tive to Apple’s Mail.app on OS X and iOS and stum­bled upon Spar­row. It was fast, han­dled mail in a com­fort­able and famil­iar Gmail fash­ion, and was full fea­tured. It was all good until you heard th… http://flip.it/WU03e Goodbye Sparrow: 8 Alternatives to Sparrow for Email Related…

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  • Best digicams for video

    (via The best cameras for shooting video (roundup) | Reviews – Cameras – CNET Reviews) Related articles Photography for Dummies: Part 4. (1hundredworks.wordpress.com)

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  • Recession has slowed birth rate

    Recession Left Baby Bust as U.S. Births Lowest Since 1920 By Frank Bass -, bloomberg.com Getty Images The U.S. birth rate fell to a record low last year, dri­ven by a decline in the num­ber of babies born to immi­grant women, who have led the growth in the nation’s pop­u­la­tion for at least two decades.…

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  • Sunbed tanning deaths strike teens

    Teens Dying From Sunbed Tanning Curb $5 Billion Industry By Jason Gale -, bloomberg.com Teenage girls trad­ing the risk of dead­ly melanoma for a year-round tan have helped spur a glob­al back­lash against the sunbed indus­try. Health offi­cials from Brasil­ia to Syd­ney are ban­ning tan­ning salons amid evi­dence that they cause… RT @BloombergNews: Teens dying…

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  • NY startups to cut health costs

    Kravis Backs N.Y. Startups Using Apps to Cut Health Costs By Ryan Faughnder -, bloomberg.com When his uncle was hos­pi­tal­ized with Alzheimer’s dis­ease, Russ Graney strug­gled to find him a home- health aide. The patient stayed in the hos­pi­tal for three extra days while the search dragged on, rais­ing costs for the fam­i­ly. Graney ……

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  • Japan explores remote, virtual workforce after disasters

    After a Disaster, Japan Looks for Alternatives to the Office bloomberg.com Cour­tesy Soco­co Think your boss is stub­born about let­ting you work from home? Try going to Japan. Telecom­mut­ing is sim­ply not built into the busi­ness cul­ture there. Just 12 per­cent of Internet-connected Japan­ese office work­ers woul… RT @BloombergTech: After a disaster, Japan looks for…

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  • Epic marketplace analyzes health data

    How Online Marketer Peered Into People’s Health Histories bloomberg.com Pho­to­graph by Getty Images There are few things as creepy in online mar­ket­ing as dig­ging into some­one’s health his­to­ry, with­out their knowl­edge, to adver­tise to them. Yet that’s pre­cise­ly what New York-based Epic Mar­ket­place is… RT @BloombergNews: How an online marketer peered into people’s health histories…

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  • Sony engineers shift to food industry for sustainable careers

    Sony Loses Science Talent as Student Resumes Go to Dairies: Tech By Mariko Yasu & Shunichi Ozasa -, bloomberg.com Japan’s sci­ence stu­dents are eschew­ing tra­di­tion­al high-powered employ­ers such as Sony Corp. (6758) and Pana­son­ic Corp. (6752) to help make ice cream and yogurt. They are apply­ing to dairies. That says quite a bit about the…

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  • Understanding culture: why Walmart has struggled in China

    Sea Bass With Barbie Dolls Challenge Wal-Mart in China By Bloomberg News -, bloomberg.com Play Shelves stacked to the ceil­ing with low-price hot sauce, Bar­bie dolls, and noo­dles stand near tanks where shop­pers can fish out live sea bass for din­ner. Wel­come to RT-Mart, China’s ver­sion of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. (WMT) From Shang­… RT @BloombergNews:…

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