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BBC News
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More than one in eight men do not volunteer to work with children because they are worried people will think they are a paedophile, a survey suggests.
Childrens' charities NCH and Chance UK also say almost one in five men do not come forward because th..
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FOX News
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An Andy Warhol painting sold for more than $71 million, more than quadrupling the previous top auction price for the pop artist's work, an auction house said.
The Wednesday auction of postwar and contemporary art took in a total of nearly $385 million,..
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CNN
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Does April Fools' Day (or the mere thought of it) strike fear in your heart? Do memories of walking into your aluminum foil-covered office still haunt you at the end of every March?
Or, do you spend 364 days of the year plotting the mother of all prank..
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MSNBC
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Shopping malls are packed every weekend. Restaurants can't open fast enough. Everyone seems to be wearing designer shoes, jackets and jeans and sipping $4 lattes. Credit card commercials constantly advocate splurging and, it seems, U.S. consumers are all..
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USA Today
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Harold Shaw leaves his home in suburban Atlanta at 5:30 a.m. to drive the 34 miles to his job at a fiber-optics cable plant. He gets there early enough to eat breakfast and read the newspaper.
"The traffic is not as busy this time of day," Shaw, 60, sa..
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Washington Post
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A new majority of working moms in the United States would be happiest in part-time jobs, with fewer seeing full-time work as an ideal, according to a study released today.
In a notable shift during the past decade, working mothers overwhelmingly view f..
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Reuters
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As Europe's workers take a few weeks of holiday this summer, their American colleagues will be lucky to get a few days off work, says a report published by the European Trade Union Institute.
Finland, followed by France, offers working people the most..
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SF Gate
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Corey Seto, Oakland
I trust only one driver, and that is me. Plus I don't want anyone else in my car.
Marty Hogan, Hercules
I gave up trying to find commuters after nearly two years. My work schedule has odd hours, and no one seems to work or liv..
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Alter Net
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Last year it was the "opt-out" myth, and this year the story is about opting back in. Both tales defy the hard evidence.
In recent years the media has obsessed over a storyline about highly educated mothers "opting out" of employment. These stories are..
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CNN
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As part of the "Life After Work" special, CNN.com asked its readers about their post-retirement years. Here is a selection of the responses, some of which have been edited for length and clarity:
Elaine Miller of Taylorsville, North Carolina Due to a m..
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SF Gate
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Two mysteries have followed me well into adulthood: Does soaping yourself work underwater, and how come there are so many people out on the street all day, seemingly not working? Having pitched a work, and not a soap, column, I recently attempted to answe..
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Alter Net
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This Mother's Day let's give mothers what they really need: a more secure old age.
This Mother's Day let's give mothers what they really need: a more secure old age. If you're a woman, or a man who cares about his mother, sister, or daughter, there's s..
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FOX News
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If the typical stay-at-home mother in the United States were paid for her work as a housekeeper, cook and psychologist among other roles, she would earn $138,095 a year, according to research released on Wednesday.
This reflected a 3 percent raise from..
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CNN
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CNN spoke with entrepreneur, speaker and home-based business coach Jane Pollak to find out what it takes to work from home and be successful. "I'm such an advocate for home-based businesses," said the 58-year-old businesswoman, whose Norwalk, Connecticut,..
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Alter Net
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Author Tim Ferriss' productivity strategy of working less and accomplishing more sounds great -- until you realize he does this by outsourcing his work to the developing world.
Among business-oriented tech nerds, there is an acronym that is a cult: GTD..
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Alter Net
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Today is Equal Pay Day -- an anti-holiday that marks how far into 2007 a woman must work to earn as much as a man earned last year.
Equal Pay Day, on April 24, is not quite a national holiday. In fact, it's something of an anti-holiday, marking how far..
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FOX News
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Women make only 80 percent of the salaries their male peers do one year after college; after 10 years in the work force, the gap between their pay widens further, according to a study released Monday.
The study, by the American Association of Universit..
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Alter Net
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Even though the internet tag NSFW (Not Safe for Work) is assumed to have something to do with sex, it is more about class, politics, and how much money you make.
Who's afraid of naughty words? Not The New Yorker. After the spring-fling scandal about th..
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FOX News
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Is God a concept for you, or a living reality?”
Not long ago, I heard this question posed by Dr. Tim Keller, during a sermon at the Redeemer Presbyterian Church, here in New York City. Now, that probing question is present whenever I cover religion s..
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