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...more about the perceptions and assumptions of others, a tendency that can cause an individual to lose both herself, and her relationship, in the process.For better or for worse, Facebook is a dating service. Yet, by transforming the relationship into a public status symbol, it has enabled us to forgo intimacy and vulnerability and has promoted the further fetishization of the labels “boyfriend” and “girlfriend.” We would all be wise to think carefully before assigning such definitive, and eminently public, definitions to our love lives.Courtney A. Fiske...
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...notably the Wall Street Journal, charge for their online editions by requiring a monthly subscription. When Rupert Murdoch acquired the Journal, he ruminated publicly about dropping the fee. But Murdoch is, above all, a smart businessman. He took a look at the economics and decided it was lunacy to forgo the revenue - and that was even before the online ad market began contracting. Now his move looks really smart. Paid subscriptions for the Journal's website were up more than 7% in a very gloomy 2008. Plus, he spooked the New York Times into dropping its own halfhearted attempts...
...which included a landmark exemption for parents who do not seek medical care for their children for religious purposes. While all states give social service authorities the right to intervene in cases of child neglect, criminal codes in 29 other states also provide additional protection for parents who forgo mainstream medical treatment. (Read TIME's cover story on God vs. Science...
...that if the district were a state, its test scores would be the lowest in the country. Rhee has taken aggressive steps to change this. Her proposal would increase baseline teacher salaries from around $40,000 to $78,000 a year, and high-performing teachers who were willing to forgo tenure would receive a salary of up to $130,000. A combination of improved efficiency and private donors would cover the increased costs...