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"Everyone Only Wants Temps"

My stint doing "on demand" grunt work for one of America's hottest growth industries. By Gabriel Thompson on Mon. July 16, 2012 3:00 AM PDT A Labor Ready outlet in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, July…
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4347 words)

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Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

On love, liberty, and the pursuit of silence. “Good music can act as a guide to good living,” John Cage (1912-1992) once said. But what, exactly, is good music, or good living, or, for that matter,…
PUBLISHED: July 5, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4235 words)

Barclays Libor scandal: how can we change banking culture?

Barclays boss Bob Diamond … the scale of the Libor scandal is jawdropping Photograph: Dylan Martinez/REUTERS We don't know each other, but I want to offer you a deal: You each give me £20,000. And…
PUBLISHED: July 2, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2304 words)

Policing the riots: fear, frustration – and a deep sense of pride

Burning buildings on Tottenham High Road on 6 August 2011. Photograph: Steve Burton/Rex Features Two police carriers packed with officers sped through Tottenham's suburban streets. In the front…
PUBLISHED: July 1, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4499 words)

Fortress Chieftain Mike Novogratz Wrestles with Olympians, Youth…and Wall Street

Mr. Novogratz with U.S. Olympic team wrestler Jake Herbert. “Wrestlers are tenacious, hard-working, no-nonsense, tough SOBs,” Fortress Investment Group principal Mike Novogratz told The…
PUBLISHED: June 13, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1783 words)

The Perfection of the Paper Clip

Getty Images/BananaStock via Thinkstock. The paper clip is something of a fetish object in design circles. Its spare, machined aesthetic and its inexpensive ubiquity landed it a spot in MoMA’s 2004…
PUBLISHED: May 22, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (757 words)
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Is buying sex a better way to help Cambodian women than buying a T-shirt?

A brothel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia"Is this a good job?"That had to rank as one of dumbest questions in the history of modern journalism. I'd put it to a young woman who'd just served me a drink at
PUBLISHED: May 19, 2011
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2100 words)

The Wall Street Money Machine

by Jake Bernstein and…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (495 words)
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