The Blight That Is Still With Us

South Carolina is a disturbing example of how difficult it is for people of good will to dispose of toxic layers of bigotry.

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Thumbs Race as Japan’s Best Sellers Go Cellular

In Japan, cellphone novels have not only infiltrated the mainstream but have come to dominate it.

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When Retirement Collides With Reality

Finding a sense of purpose or new endeavors can ease the transition from work life.

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For Disc Jockeys as Well as Desk Jockeys

If you long to be a disc jockey or at least to play one on Saturday nights, here is some new, highly portable D.J. gear could bring that dream much closer.

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Sorting Out the New Housing Market

The shape of the new post housing-bubble market is one that favors young people who never owned a house and the banks that have access to cheap deposits.

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Don’t Cry for Me, America

Although we won’t have the kind of financial death spiral Argentina experienced, the next year or two could be quite unpleasant.

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Generation Me vs. You Revisited

New research challenges the notion that young Americans are the most self-absorbed.

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Crisis? Maybe He’s a Narcissistic Jerk

Is the midlife crisis the newest excuse for poor behavior? Popularly viewed as a unique developmental birthright of the human species, it supposedly strikes when most of us have finally figured ourselves out — only to discover that we have lost our youth and mortality is on the horizon.

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Housing Starts at 16-Year Low

The drop-off is likely to hurt businesses that serve the housing industry, which economists don’t expect to bottom out until the middle of the year.

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Blue-Collar Jobs Disappear, Taking Families & A Way of Life Along

In southeast Ohio, thousands of people who long had tough but sustainable lives are being wrenched into the working poor. Slammed by the continued decline in the automobile and steel businesses, Ohio never recovered from the recession of 2001-2. In some parts, 32% lived below the poverty line in 2007!

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