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Large indeed. According to a recent survey of 2.6 million job applicants by Colorado-based Avert Inc., which specializes in background checks, 44% of all resumes contain at least some lies. Other surveys by Bliss's group reveal that up to 90% of personnel directors report resume fibs about everything from past salaries to--inexplicably--Social Security numbers. And things aren't any better at the boardroom level. Christian & Timbers, one of the nation's top 10 executive-search firms, found that at least 23% of 7,000 resumes submitted for president, V.P. and board-of-director positions had been...
Stephen Carter goes to church regularly. He teaches at an Ivy League law school. He instructs his kids to avert their eyes from inappropriate scenes in music videos--and he actually believes them when they say they do. He would make a perfect Agatha Christie villain: he's the last one you would suspect...
...mujahedin fighters and then the Taliban, all planted land mines on the high cliffs above the colossal Buddhas, and rain and erosion have brought hundreds of these deadly devices tumbling into the valley. Dozens of Afghan de-mining experts are combing the slopes with their metal detectors, trying to avert more casualties. The mines are a particular hazard to the families of Hazara refugees whose villages were razed by the Taliban and who now shelter in the honeycomb of cliff caves once used by meditating Buddhist hermits...
...world is getting warmer? With our April 9, 2001, cover on potentially disastrous climate change, Jeffrey Kluger and Michael Lemonick set a new standard for writing on the issue. Lemonick laid out overwhelming evidence that temperatures are rising, while Kluger showed how U.S. policy has to change to avert calamity. A year later, their efforts have won the Overseas Press Club's award for best reporting on the environment...
Unfortunately, the looming crisis is so enormous in monetary terms that not even the most Panglossian of optimists could hope to avert it with today’s surpluses. The unfunded liability of Social Security over the next 75 years is an astounding $25 trillion. For perspective, consider that the projected ten-year budget surplus before Bush’s tax cut, Sept. 11 and the recession was $5.6 trillion. That number is but 22.4 percent of the expected shortfall, and such surpluses will not continue when Social Security starts running annual deficits in the hundreds of billions ($252 billion...