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Typical Industrialist Marginalization
Are Apple Stores, like WallMart, just Dickensian work-houses? Really tough to sell an upscale product when your floor staff openly resent their employer. http://www.alternet.org/economy/151465/mac_stores_tell_workers%2C_instead_of_giving_you_health_care%2C_working_for_apple_%27should_be_looked_at_as_an_experience%27/
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TSA cagey on cancer risk?
Interesting. One wonders what the exposure rate for standing in line for those back-scatter and the luggage x-ray things are. Worth noting that the safey regulations on those things are prolly totally vain–have you ever seen how tightly cramped the security areas get? http://www.infowars.com/cancer-surges-in-body-scanner-operators-tsa-launches-cover-up/ (I saw this link via bear454)
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Would girl marketed video games bolster women in tech by 2034?
We need to get girls interested in computing by first grade. By fifth grade, it’s game over. Computing has an image crisis.
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Closer examination of the details reveals that increased coal shipments have the potential for significant harm to the communities through which this coal will travel.
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True Price of Gas (video)
It’s more than $5 or $8 a gallon. Worth a watch: http://centerforinvestigativereporting.org/articles/the-price-of-gas-4865
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Gender and cycling (Grist)
Good article addresses how mom and kids are still using the minivan and not bikes. http://www.grist.org/biking/2011-06-20-bicyclings-gender-gap-its-the-economy-stupid We need more cargo bikes out there!
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