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Michelle Renee: Develop Your Strategic Plan for 2010!
Business mistake #1: Don't have a strategic business plan. I learned this the hard way when I was dipping my toes into the entrepreneurial pond for the very first time. Now that it is almost 2010, the economy is showing at least some signs of light at the end of the dark and depressing recession t …
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David Colbert: Publishing's Next Big Thing and Its Next Big Headache, Part I
A contractual problem threatens the ebook business of all the major publishers. It begins with the next big thing in book publishing: advertising. Have you used any free iPhone apps that generate revenue for their creators by running small ads above or below the apps' primary content? Have …
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Sammy Sosa's Skin PHOTOS: Pictures Reveal Light Pigmentation
*** SCROLL DOWN FOR PHOTOS *** Sammy Sosa's skin appears to have lightened considerably. Photographs taken at an event in Las Vegas reveal a surprisingly light pigmentation on the former slugger. While no cause has been established at this time, the web site Midwest Sports Fans speculates that st …
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Shawn Adolf Pleads Guilty To Weapons Charges: Colorado Man Threatened Obama Before Democratic Natio …
DENVER — A man who threatened to kill Barack Obama last summer just before the Democratic National Convention in Denver has pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges. Shawn Adolf faces 10 years in prison after pleading guilty Friday to having firearms as a felon. The 35-year-old man was arr …
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Juliet Linley: "He's Got to Become Independent"
Sara lives in Rome and has three boys. She nursed them all for 3-4 years; in other words, until they decided of their own accord that they no longer needed the comfort of their mother's breast. Today, they are aged between 15 and 28: They're smart, healthy and -- most of all -- independent. …
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Calvin Hoover Charged: Oregon Man Accused Of Drunk Driving After 911 Call
SALEM, Ore. — Oregon police have charged a man with drunk driving after he called 911 to report his marijuana as stolen but the dispatcher couldn't understand him because he was vomiting while on the road. Marion County sheriff's deputies say 21-year-old Calvin Hoover, of Salem, told dispat …
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Scott Atran: A Memory of Claude Lévi-Strauss
In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of universals with people whose ideas I wished to know more about than I thought I could get from their writings. At the time, I was working for Margaret Mead as one of her assistants at …
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Jane Hamsher: NARAL and Planned Parenthood: Ineffectiveness Anti-Choice Democrats Can Rely On
Democrats in Congress have just proudly signed a deal with the Catholic bishops which allows a bunch of old men who have spent the better part of the last century avoiding their own sexual issues to dictate access to abortion services in the House health care bill. No tax dollars were going to go t …
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Amber Holley: When Hollywood Calls Morals Into Question: A Lesson From the Book of Jon
Sometime last week, I stumbled across a short story describing a man who was being publicly accused of walking -- or, more accurately, sprinting -- down a path of indecency and inappropriateness that offended "social conventions or public morals." The man was specifically condemned for committing n …
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Jane Hamsher: NARAL and Planned Parenthood: Ineffectiveness Anti-Choice Democrats Can Rely On!
Democrats in Congress have just proudly signed a deal with the Catholic bishops which allows a bunch of old men who have spent the better part of the last century avoiding their own sexual issues to dictate access to abortion services in the House health care bill. No tax dollars were going to go t …
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Kristi York Wooten: How David Hasselhoff Toppled the Berlin Wall: Music Memories From November, 1989
One crisp autumn morning after a long night of Wildbrau beer and Spaetzle noodles, I awoke atop an Ikea bunk bed to find David Hasselhoff hovering over me, wearing nothing but his "Baywatch" bikini. I was disoriented. He was tan and hairy, with a smile the size of Stuttgart. When I leaned in to have …
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Yoani Sanchez: Last Night A Regime In Its Last Throes Kidnapped and Beat Me [VIDEO]
Near 23rd Street, just at the Avenida de los Presidentes roundabout, we saw a black car, made in China, pull up with three heavily built strangers. "Yoani, get in the car," one told me while grabbing me forcefully by the wrist. The other two surrounded Claudia Cadelo, Orlando Luis Pardo Lazo, and a …
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Trish Kinney: Politically Correct or Perfectly Crazy
PC can sometimes stand for perfectly crazy. I'm just sayin' ... what seems to qualify as Politically Correct these days can leave you scratching your head or screaming like a lunatic. Take for example the brouhaha about our basketball-crazy President who loves to gather his boys (don't even go …
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Rep. Patrick Murphy: Why We Can't Afford to Fail: A Blue Dog for Reform
A woman from Bucks County recently lost her job as a copy editor, and the small business her husband works for is unable to afford coverage for their employees. She tried shopping around on her own for a plan but was turned down by insurance companies because of a pre-existing condition she recently …
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Alexander Vreeland: At Kawolo Hospital
At Kawolo Hospital, in a suburb outside the capital of Uganda, I looked around a group of doctors, nurses, mothers and children and I found myself surrounded by people who understood my story. Shortly after the birth of my daughter Victoria, she was diagnosed with pneumonia. The second time th …
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Sarah Schmelling: ISO My Twitter Persona
One day in the middle of my first-ever book tour, a thought woke me up early in the morning. I'd just had an event at a popular L.A. bookstore. I saw old friends, answered great questions, sold a good amount of books. But that next morning I realized: I hadn't tweeted it. My book is related to Faceb …
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Stephen Viscusi: Viscusi:"As I predicted in "Huffington Post" Unemployment Numbers Worsen. Are You …
By Stephen Viscusi Economists tell us that the recession may soon be ending. "Recession" is an economic term. The "NY Times" tells us "if statistics went back as far,(unemployment) the measure would almost certainly be at the highest level since the Great Depression....In all, one out of every s …
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Dennis Danziger: Demerit Pay
In the spirit of generosity I've been thanking the gods that private school teachers' salaries are not connected to students' standardized test scores. Else Malia Obama's science teacher at the Sidwell Friends School might have lost her job faster than you can say "grade inflation." On November …
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Chauncey Zalkin: What Women Publish: How Miss Pettigrew Came to Live Another Day
Persephone Books is a female-run publishing house and London bookstore that publishes out-of-print 20th century female authors. It's a quintessential example of the kind of business built of passion, intellect and saleability that inspired Girl on the Street and What Women Make. On my way from …
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"I Object": Tom Price Tries To Shut Down Democratic Congresswomen (VIDEO)
On Saturday morning, a group of House Republicans -- led by Rep. Tom Price (R-Georgia) -- attempted to stop the Democratic Women's Caucus from making their arguments about how the health bill would benefit women by screaming over them. Rep. Lois Capps (D-Calif.) only had time to say "Mr. Speaker, …
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