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...households. Workers are sorted into three categories: employed, unemployed and not in the labor force. To be counted as unemployed, a worker must have "actively looked for work" in the past month - a definition some analysts say is too narrow to capture the breadth of the economic pain. A more realistic one, they argue, would include discouraged workers who have looked for work within the past year as well as underemployed Americans seeking full-time jobs. Taking these categories into account, the Great Recession has touched 17.5% of Americans' jobs. Talk about an incentive...
McKellen almost redeems the miniseries as Two. The leader has a story of his own, including an ailing wife and a rebellious son. Two has less control over his family and their love than he does over the Village, and McKellen's wonderfully calibrated performance combines arrogance and secret pain. Whatever the Village's purpose, it has not solved Two's problems...
...happy people are broken down by congressional district; Utah turns out to be the merriest state, West Virginia the glummest.) When the markets tanked last fall, happiness did too, and anyone who has lost his or her job, house or health care is probably still in a world of pain. But here's the funny thing: by this past summer, overall well-being was higher than it was in the summer of 2008, before the Apocalypse. In fact, the latest report finds America's cheeriness at an all-time high. An August report from the Pepsi Optimism Project (POP) positively...
...growing up. "The kids have to write their own lyrics, so it offers a really good window into childhood," says filmmaker Jamie Jay Johnson, who chronicled the 2007 contest in his documentary Sounds Like Teen Spirit. "The songs have been about everything from romance to pimples to period pain." (See the Top 10 Eurovision Controversies...
Pieces in the exhibit offer perspectives on pain, escape, truth, or humor. One print, Sandra Ramos’ “The Damned Circumstances of Water Everywhere,” depicts a near-naked woman lounging in a shape identical to the island nation. The piece depicts the close connection between the artists and their homeland as well as, the title implies, the isolation that some of the country’s artists might feel. Another of the exhibition’s pieces, Belkis Ayon’s “Resurrection,” shows a head with only...