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...Left-brain abilities that used to guarantee jobs have become easy to automate, while right-brain abilities are harder to find - "design, seeing the big picture, connecting the dots," Pink says. He cites cognitive skills and self-direction as the types of things companies look for in job candidates. "People have to be able to do stuff that's hard to outsource," he says. "It used to be for blue collar; it's now for white collar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Job Market: Is a College Degree Worth Less? | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

Probably not a big shocker that the minds behind Facebook are a little dweeby. Proof positive? They've incorporated an old video-game code into the site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facebook's Secret Code | 12/8/2009 | See Source »

...Michas and Lavoie] were playing the two deciding matches at the same time,” Hill said. “They overcame the pressure of their opponents and came up big when we needed them the most...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Takes Narrow Victory Over Big Red | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...We’re just going to carry over everything we’ve done up to this point and try to pull out some big wins,” Michas said. “Our win against Cornell shows that we are very capable of beating a lot of other teams, and that’s just what we are going...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Takes Narrow Victory Over Big Red | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...Narrowing the Struggle Practically, this exercise in subtraction starts with Iran. By defining the U.S.'s enemy as "terror," Bush implied that Iran was as big a problem as al-Qaeda. After all, Tehran's mullahs began sponsoring terrorism before al-Qaeda was even born. In so doing, Bush made normal relations with the Islamic Republic virtually impossible. While he didn't actually declare war on Tehran, he initiated the coldest of cold wars: threats of force, no diplomacy and an ideological campaign aimed at making the regime crack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama Shrinks the War on Terrorism | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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