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...guess what? Barack's got your back! As Lily Whiteman points out, the federal government is hiring like woah.You too can "Ride the Federal Hiring Wave...
...occasional helplessness of the crews - and a new wave of attacks in recent days despite the presence of an international flotilla off Somalia - has led some experts to demand that they be armed in case of attack. On Monday, Gortney told CNN that in addition to beefing up ship defenses on their vessels, shipping companies should deploy armed guards on ships that may come under threat. But such a move has many opponents, who argue that most crews are not properly trained to handle weapons, and such a decision would butt up against the laws of dozens of nations, which...
Since it first reared its head in 1977, punk rock hasn’t come in waves so much as infesations, swarms, plagues of cockroaches. When their way of life destabilized (post-punk, new wave, etc.), the faithful foraged underground to found hardcore—itself the ancestor of pop music’s most violent and dissonant iterations. The lineup and the skulls shaking in the crowd may change, but, beyond all hope and all disaster, punk rock survives.Its survival derives from its credibility, and its credibility, after more than 30 years, derives from its sense of iconoclasm...
...either deliberately or unwillingly, and sometimes even unwittingly.“‘Metropath(ologies)’ is interactive, but it gets away from the kind of interactive art that is more like a puppet piece—the ones where you see it and you wave your arm and something moves on a screen,” says Judith Donath, Director of the Sociable Media Group and a Faculty Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “People look at ‘Metropath(ologies)’ more as an artwork than...
Those who blame America's gun culture note that sales of weapons and ammo have been brisk lately, fueled by fear of a recession-related crime wave and fear that the Obama Administration might tighten gun laws. But remember what Linda Loman said as her husband, the failed salesman Willy, headed toward his suicide: "Attention must be paid." When Arthur Miller wrote that, 60 years ago, it was a lament. Now it's a deadly threat...