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This new status-update field sounds like a self-conscious Carrie Bradshaw type who asks her boyfriend what he's thinking every time he's silent for more than five minutes. "I don't even know how to fill it in," Katie Tichacek says of the revised update box. An active Facebook user, Tichacek describes herself as "totally a status person - I like a quick and dirty read-through of what people are doing." Until yesterday, she was changing her status regularly with updates about what she was eating, reading or working on or where she was traveling - but with...
...formula was simple, declarative: "Claire is working," "Claire is hungry," "Claire is unable to finish this article, so she is procrastinating by checking Facebook." But if I'm hungry and you ask me what's on my mind, what do I say? Do I just type "doughnuts" into the field? Then everyone I know will just see the update "Claire doughnuts...
...Justice spoke about her experiences as a female in the traditionally male-dominated field of law. When she attended Harvard Law School, Ginsburg said, she was one of only nine women in her class, and when she began working as a lawyer, legal gender discrimination was rampant...
...couple of performances on the national scene: sophomore diver Zac Ranta will compete at the NCAA Zone A Diving Championships, where he hopes to earn a berth to NCAAs at the end of the month, and senior Becky Christensen is one of 17 high jumpers in the field at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships tonight in Texas...
...countries are guilty of self interest, no doubt. Emerging markets have responded to an uneven playing field with their own brand of “economic nationalism.” Indeed, Harvard economics professor Ken Rogoff notes that India’s comparatively “stringent restrictions on international capital flows” saved it from the brunt of the recession. The point is that state intervention and national interests have been complicated through globalization, not erased...