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The History Channel has a great series called “Life After People,” which imagines the fate of the earth after an apocalyptic end to humans. As a technology analyst, Steve Jobs’ January 17th announcement of an indefinite medical leave (his third in 10 years) got me imagining the unthinkable — what if Steve Jobs did not return?
For those who love tech, the thought of a Job-less Apple is about as apocalyptic a scenario as one can imagine — perhaps second only to the end of life on earth as we know it.
Admittedly, Mr. Jobs isn’t really known for being an early adopter of technology. After all, the iPod and iPhone came along well after similar products had already been created in the

” … I don’t want to be on his family’s Christmas cards or to take up an inordinate amount of his time. I just want to know who he is.”
“I feel like half a person.”
“I wish he simply knew I exist.”
If you are a man who gets a woman pregnant after meeting her in a bar, you cannot legally hide your identity from your child, nor walk away from at least minimal responsibility as a father. Yet if you wish anonymously to sell your sperm to a sperm bank, you can remain hidden from your child

Today, Washingtonians for Humane Farms, a coalition led by The HSUS and Farm Sanctuary, filed a proposed initiative petition in Washington state to halt the use of battery cage confinement in egg production. The measure, which would take effect in 2018, would also stipulate that eggs sold in the state must meet that same standard once it goes into effect.
For three years, we met with egg producers in the Northwest to try to hatch a compromise. But the state’s egg producers, who confine about 6 million birds, could not get to a place where they supported a serious-minded animal welfare reform in egg production. This initiative is the outcome of those failed discussions.
In 2008, HSUS and a large coalition of groups passed Proposition 2 in California to phase out the cage confinement of laying

What An Inconvenient Truth did for understanding climate change, a new film, The Economics of Happiness, is sure to do for understanding localization versus globalization. Even for those who are well versed in the negative effects of globalization, this film will further expose the systemic structures that drive the machine. But the film also offers hope in examples of the ways that localization could save us. I know of no other film that so clearly explains both of these divergent paths into the future.
Interspersed with interviews with some of the leading ecologists and thinkers of our time (Bill McKibben, David Korten, Vandana Shiva, Richard Heinberg,

When a young singer sets out to make his reputation in Lieder (German for art songs), he must carefully consider how he will introduce himself. He may choose appealing, often familiar works that sound more difficult than they are to avoid pushing the limits of his still forming technique and interpretive abilities. Alternately, he may choose repertoire that is new or out of the ordinary to focus the audience’s attention on the novelty of the songs themselves.
Baritone Christopher Herbert chose a third option. He threw down and picked up his own gauntlet, taking on the summit of the art of Lieder, Franz Schubert’s monumental Winterreise, for his local

She’s been a working actor for almost 30 years – having dropped out of Purchase College of the State University of New York to take a role on All My Children – but it’s only in the last few years that Melissa Leo has become a brand name unto herself.
Indeed, when Kevin Smith approached her to act in Red State, which debuts this week at Sundance, “he told me thought that having me in the film would let people know that it’s a serious project,” Leo says, sounding amazed at the very thought.
Leo is an odds-on favorite to be among this year’s Oscar nominees for best supporting actress, for her role in David O. Russell’s The Fighter. And her win at the Golden Globes for the role makes her a serious contender to take the Oscar home.
A nomination would be her second in three years – after a best-actress nod for 2008′s Frozen River. Between shooting those two films, she’s acted in almost two dozen films – and played a starring role on the acclaimed HBO series, Treme, whose second season she’s currently

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Fireball kills US gas firm worker
A gas company employee was killed when a giant fireball ripped through a residential neighbourhood in the north-eastern US city of Philadelphia.
Four of the man's colleagues, along with a firefighter, were injured by the explosion.
The cause of the blast is not yet known, but local residents had reported smelling gas beforehand.
Several nearby buildings in the city's Tacony neighbourhood were evacuated, including an old people's home.
The incident happened on Tuesday night as crews investigated a possible

Several months ago, as a favor to a friend, I did an informational interview with a recent grad — a nice young woman with an Ivy League degree. At the end of our coffee, she leaned in and lowered her eyes. “There’s something else I should mention,” she said. “I’m not sure if you Googled me before we met,

American and European political rights are intrinsically linked with economic rights. Capitalism arose amid democratic revolution in the late 1700s. Americans, committed to a rule of law rooted in a recognition of individual rights, are inclined to doubt China’s commitment to capitalism and to see China’s economic growth as relying on instrumentalist policies to achieve short-term domestic economic benefit at the risk of long-term market viability. On the other hand, Chinese leaders seek to deny most political freedoms while slowly opening the door for economic rights that will spur

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After the shooting rampage in Tucson, the parents of the accused gunman released a statement that included this: “We don’t understand why this happened.”
At this point we can only speculate what happened. There were a lot of red flags in the shooter’s behavior leading up to the incident that indicated he was mentally unstable. His Internet postings suggested someone really struggling, though people shade things on the Internet. And, of course, there is that photograph of him — head shaven, the look of possession, lips slightly

As their first action after taking control of Congress, Republicans are debating H.R. 2, the Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act. I oppose efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act for many reasons. Not least of which is the effect it will have on my constituents, including the 113,000 people on Medicare in the 21st Congressional District of New York.
The health care reform law required Medicare to cover all preventive care — like cancer screenings and yearly check-ups — free of

For years, people would routinely pose the same question to me, “so what are you?” Pretty sure that people are clear that I’m a brunette, a female, even that I’m a dietitian (though sometimes they confuse that with a nutritionist — sorry folks, I have a license and the education years and internship to show for it). So since the question usually came amidst a conversation about food choices, I would presume they were asking about my eating habits. And for years, I wouldn’t really have an answer. I had been a vegan, a pescatarian, a person following a macrobiotic diet and later Westin Price’s protocol; I had dabbled with Atkins out of curiosity (and the promise of daily lattes with half and half), the Body Ecology diet (despite not having a yeast problem, call it “professional curiosity”) as well as other “plans.” But I stopped in my tracks when the question now came to

You can’t find a better contrast between the vision for our country than those offered by AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and Goldman Sachs. One vision sees America as the land of equality and fairness. The other vision sees an America where greed is good.
Here is some of what Trumka will say today at the National Press Club as a way to frame the challenges before the country in the run-up to the president’s State of the Union address:
Looking ahead to the 2012 election, he says:
It is good to see a leader who understands that the phoniness of the bi-partisan obsession of the phony deficit and debt “crisis” are leading to the wrong conversation.
Now, let’s look at the Goldman Sachs vision:
Goldman Sachs executives have long been among the most richly paid on Wall Street in the best of times. They are now poised to reap a windfall that was sown in the dark days of the financial crisis in 2008.
And…
The documents illustrate just how much wealth the partnership owns and has cashed out over the

UniversityChic.com writer Erin Cunningham is an underclassman at George Washington University. The following is a student’s assessment of how to better make long-term choices about college and career planning.
Some worry about landing the job of their dreams post-graduation. Others stress about how they’re going to pay off their college loans once they end their lives as students and become career professionals. But really, when we think about our future and what pros and cons go along with it, we soon discover many of these things are out of our

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Gabrielle Giffords to move to rehabilitation clinic

Paris is known for many things – historic monuments like the Eiffel Tower, prized museums like The Louvre, fashion icons like Chanel, and of course, its rich, delicious French cuisine.
Below is a list of the restaurants you must try when visiting Paris, recommended to me by Belinda Leong of 2 Michelin Star restaurant, Manresa. Don’t fret, this list is not limited to fancy and expensive restaurants. Some of these favorites include hole-in-the-wall eateries that are easy on the wallet but impressive to the most developed of palates.
1. Le Comptoir Du Relais
If you can only try one place out of this list, then make it Le Comptoir, where you may just experience the best meal of your

Save lives, help small businesses, cut the deficit, and grow jobs.
How could anyone be against that?
Yet efforts are afoot in Congress to repeal the new health care reform law, the Affordable Care Act, before it’s even fully implemented as is planned over the next several years. In fact, there’s a vote expected in the House to take up this matter.
Changing course now would harm our children, our businesses, our jobs, and our nation.
Approximately 129 million people could be denied care without the Affordable Care Act pre-existing condition

Pasta at Midnight
I could say that these cold winter nights are the reason I love to have a warm, delicious bowl of pasta at midnight. But then I’d be lying. I love having pasta at midnight at any time of the year, although there’s something particularly satisfying about a bowl of your favorite pasta when there’s a chill in the air, and it’s been too long since dinner. Or maybe it’s 11:30, and, God forbid, you haven’t even eaten yet! Late night dinners in the Carlesimo family always meant one thing: It was time to Put on the Ollies! Better known to the rest of the world as Linguini with Garlic and Oil, or Linguini con Aglio e Oglio, they were a favorite of my father’s, and he called them

I am a young professor of sociology teaching classes on gender, marriage and social change — and I have never read Betty Friedan’s “The Feminine Mystique.” Like many women of my generation, I thought I had. I must have, I told myself. Perhaps in college? No. And it turns out that very few of my well-educated, feminist-leaning friends have either.
When I bring up “The Feminine Mystique” (1963) in passing in lectures, I ask my students if they’ve heard of that phrase, or have heard a reference to “the problem that has no name.” The majority of them raise their hands, but few can tell me what the book was

This week marks a turning point in the recovery from the “Great Recession.” The Financial Stability Oversight Counsel will release an 80 page draft of “recommendations” on the Volcker Rule to the Federal Reserve.
The main objective? Prevent the next Lehman Brothers. The head of this counsel is none other than Tim Geithner. You know, the man who was in charge of the New York Fed as Lehman tripled the size of it’s balance sheet risk

A German man has admitted to smuggling live tarantulas into the US.
Prosecutors said Sven Koppler of Wachtberg posted hundreds of spiders to buyers in the US and across the world, earning more than 295,000 (184,548).
Among the spiders he sold were Mexican red-kneed tarantulas, a protected species whose export is tightly restricted.
US wildlife investigators arrested him after posing as a buyer. Koppler, 37, faces up to 20 years in US