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...every employee in insecure industries has such a gloomy view, Burchell says. Entrepreneurs seem to thrive. In general, women fare better too. While reporting higher levels of anxiety than men when directly questioned, women scored lower in stress on the GHQ 12, even when they had a job they felt insecure about losing. As Burchell explains, "For women, most studies show that any job - it doesn't matter whether it is secure or insecure - gives psychological improvement over unemployment." Burchell hypothesizes that the difference in men is that they tend to feel pressure not only to be employed, but also...
...this study come about? BGE: I’ve always been interested in funding models for online media. The question is: Who will pay for online media? Who will pay for a premium Wall Street Journal online subscription? Who will pay for a TimesSelect? So far it seems hardly anyone will pay for those services, and we see newspapers really getting squeezed. Separately, adult Web sites manage to sell subscriptions –– even though, by some standards, The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times might be more important or more useful. That...
...yoga? There is nothing like Bikram to sweat the stress away. Taurus Mid-year rut? No better time to grab the bull by the balls! Strike up a conversation with that standout in section, and you might find yourself discussing Dante over dinner. Gemini Snagging that summer internship may seem harder than pulling a fast one on Widener security guy, but remember the world beyond BoA. Load up a rucksack and head West—worked for Kerouac! Cancer Admit it—your G-mail inbox is more crowded than Noch’s on a Saturday night...
...came to Harvard in a time of great transition for the college, when there were early experiments in “equal status.” But I realized within weeks that “my kind” didn’t seem to belong here, a feeling I heard echoed in comments of some of my black and brown friends. Pictures and statues were of white men, as were nearly all of the tenured professors whose famous classes I shopped. History recounted their stories. There were stories of negative administrative responses reports of sexual harassment and assaults...
...Heights retiree, has his own solution to the electoral circus. "Let Coleman and [Franken] take a nice gold coin and flip it in the air," he says. "I don't know why they are monkeying around. They're never going to find out all the correct ballots." That may seem like an absurd idea. But in fact, Minnesota law provides that the state could resort to a coin flip if both candidates are tied. That happened in a 2008 race for mayor of Goodridge, a northern town here with a population of 98, after each candidate received 22 votes...