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...FAST As the sole breadwinner for his wife and three kids, Ward knew that he had to get a new job quickly. He found himself unemployed at 5 in the afternoon; by 8 that night, he'd called four people he knew in Ohio who did the same sort of computer work he did, as well as his college buddy Lyell, down in North Carolina. "I'd been using Twitter and Facebook and LinkedIn, but in a very passive, extracurricular way," says Ward. "I knew Lyell was big into the Twitter scene. He immediately began blasting information out to contacts...
...ventriloquism: it puts the taboos in someone else's mouth. The humans in the room are innocent, including the one with a hand up the doll's shirt. "Peanut and Walter get away with stuff we'd all like to say but we can't because we have sort of a valve," says Dunham. "Sometimes I shut that valve...
...Upon taking office last year, Lee changed course and linked further economic cooperation to the dismantlement of North Korea's nuclear program. Some in the South believe Lee has to change his hard-line stand to reduce the rising tensions. "For the past years, we had built up some sort of a relationship" with North Korea, says homemaker So Young Soon, 51. "But this administration I think has failed to negotiate with the North...
...junk problem at most colleges doesn't usually rise to that level of drama. It's more a persistent, slow-burning question: What are we going to do with all this ... stuff? Over the past decade, schools like Princeton, NYU, Cornell, Harvard and Ohio State have each instituted some sort of program to collect unwanted items and either donate them to charity or sell them at the beginning of the following term...
...idea that is not that simple to execute. At George Washington University, housing director Matt Trainum helps run a Green Move Out program that collects food, clothes and other goods to give to local charities. Bins are placed in the lobby of every residence hall, and student volunteers help sort through the piles. This year - the program's fourth - they have collected about 53,500 lb. (24,300 kg) of donatable goods, much of which would have gone straight into the trash in days of yore...