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...though jobs at his company start at $25,000, and most pay less than $60,000. Pike, which is based in Belmont, New Hampshire, has landed 10 new contracts since the stimulus bill was signed. "At our company alone, the stimulus bill has amounted to a 250-person swing in the economy," says Zimmerman. (See highlights from a debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Biden Show-and-Tell: How the Stimulus Has Created Jobs | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...Roland Burris as the junior senator from Illinois. Blagojevich should not have been given such power after his unlawful actions, and the circus that ensued afterward was truly an abomination. The appointment of a new senator should have been made fairly and lawfully, and, most importantly, not by a person who was indicted on corruption charges and soon thereafter impeached. While we demanded more accountability among elected officials, we asked for more freedom for all Americans. This year could have been an important one in terms of securing the right to marriage for gay couples, with according referenda...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Progress and Accountability | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...case. I would never have thought to call it a manual typewriter because, of course, all typewriters were manual, right? Thus when I took a typing test for my first job and was confronted with a typewriter where all of the keys were stuck, it took a stunned HR person to introduce me to the on/off switch on my first electric typewriter...

Author: By Judith H. Kidd | Title: The Restart Option | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

...full 20 years after my first job that I met my first word processor and understood that that term referred to a machine, not a person who was an editor. The first time someone yelled “the server is down,” I was terrified that some unknown staff assistant had been felled. I have experienced the horror of seeing a multi-page document scroll up at a rapid pace, deleting every sentence along the way. And I have many times been forced to use “Force Quit” when confronted with a frozen...

Author: By Judith H. Kidd | Title: The Restart Option | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

Good: Telling your parents in person rather than relying on Facebook to do the work for you. C'mon, there are still some things you have to do the old-fashioned way. Not so good: Duh ... Letting your parents figure it out while they try out this newfangled Facebook thing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Come Out on Facebook | 6/2/2009 | See Source »

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