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What Gen Y Really Wants
With 85 million baby boomers and 50 million Gen Xers, there is already a yawning generation gap among American workers–particularly in their ideas of work-life balance.
Why Can’t We Treat At-Risk Students Like Athletes?
When the University of Connecticut beat Butler on Monday night to win the NCAA championship, they brought down the curtain on an unusually exciting men’s college basketball tournament. But one aspect of the tournament was entirely predictable: The handwringing about the low-graduation rates for many basketball programs
Essay: Confessions of An Ivy League Reject
Twenty-five years ago this month, Harvard said no. So did Yale, Princeton, Dartmouth, Columbia and Williams.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Legacy as Governor of California
Appropriately, the race to become the next governor of the richest state in the Union could well be a treatment for a Hollywood script: a multimillionaire taking on the wily scion of a political dynasty to succeed one of the biggest box-office stars of all time as governor of California. On Tuesday, Californians will decide if Democrat Jerry Brown, the current attorney general, a former governor himself and three-time presidential candidate, or Meg Whitman, the eBay billionaire who has spent a record $140+ million on her campaign, will succeed Arnold Schwarzenegger
The Science of Romance: Why We Flirt
Contrary to widespread belief, only two very specific types of people flirt: those who are single and those who are married.
Facebook’s Latest Role: College Guidance Counselor
The college-admissions process used to be relatively private, but that’s all changing thanks to Facebook. After all, it’s not hard to figure out who got in where when your classmate joins a group called “New York University Class of 2013” — and Facebook’s news feed rubs it in your face.
Barry Bonds Trial: Why the Government Should Get Over It
This weekend, college basketball will whittle its postseason tournament down to the Final Four.
Health: Stress and the College Grad
The Latin class you took freshman year may lack real-world usefulness, but researchers think graduates may pick up a different kind of skill in college: stress management. A study in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior suggests that highly educated adults handle daily stress better than their less educated counterparts
Nation: THE PENTAGON’S WHIZ KIDS
Though the ranks of the Whiz Kids in the Defense Department are proliferating, five stand out for the scope and strength of their influence:Alain C. Enthoven, 31, intense and dark-suited, looks more like a young college professor than a weapons analyst