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• Educate staff about benefits in 2 sentences or less

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  The days of sending packets of benefits info to people’s homes are over. Today, HR and benefits pros need to find new ways to connect to their workforce — especially younger, more tech-savvy employees. One tool that works: Social networking Web sites. Provide a steady stream of info Social sites, like ...
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• November 24th Show

  
  NPR Blogs: Blog of the Nation — Authority: 134
  A cross marks the place of a car crash in Colby, Kansas. In todays second hour well talk about what youre willing to give up for safer roads. ( Spencer Platt/Getty Images ) By Gwen Outen Jihadists in America Federal investigators filed charges against eight people in connection with the ...
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• HBCU Forces Overweight Students To Lose Weight To Graduate

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 638
  PHILADELPHIA — A Pennsylvania university’s requirement that overweight undergraduates take a fitness course to receive their degrees has raised the hackles of students and the eyebrows of health and legal experts. Officials at historically black Lincoln University said Friday that the school is simply concerned ...
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• Reports Of Hate Crimes Rose In 2008, FBI Reports

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 638
  WASHINGTON — Reports of hate crimes against gays and religious groups increased sharply in 2008, according to FBI data released Monday. Overall, the number of reported hate crime incidents increased about 2 percent. These same figures show a nearly 11 percent increase in hate crime offenses based on sexual ...
  18 hours ago

• Living the Lie - Agent Orange activist confronts Monsanto

  
  Newsvine - Pamela Drew's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 126
  Len Aldis, Secretary of the Britain -Vietnam Friendship Society, wrote to Nguyen Anh Thi, director of Monsanto Vietnam, asking him to discuss Agent Orange, which Monsanto manufactured and the US government sprayed in Vietnam, poisoning millions.Aldis asked for a meeting, but Th …
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• NYC boy missing for 11 days lived in subways

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 838
  The mother of a 13-year-old boy with Aspergers syndrome who was missing in New York City for 11 days says her son spent the entire time in the subway system.
  18 hours ago

• 7 firefighters injured at Dallas construction site

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 838
  Authorities say a fire at an apartment complex under construction in Dallas left seven firefighters injured.
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• Consumer prices in the UAE fall slightly in October

  
  Dubai Business | Kippreport — Authority: 516
  Consumer prices in the UAE fell 0.4 percent in October as compared to the same period last year, reports  Bloomberg , citing information from the UAE economy ministry. Prices fell 0.1 percent in the month, with food and clothing seeing the main declines. October is the fourth consecutive month of deflation in the ...
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• Health Care Reform: A Test of Our Values

  
  Yo Mama For Obama — Authority: 124
  Health care reform is, when push comes to shove, when the fat lady sings, when our history will be written and perhaps a legacy established, the only measure that matters.  Politics be damned: health care reform is a reflection of our moral standards.  It is a verdict on our very ...
  18 hours ago

• No Packer Transplants Tonight

  
  Cheesehead TV — Authority: 480
  As you have probably noticed, blogging has been a bit lite over the past four or five days. As it happens, I’ve been laid up in bed with something serious and have not had much strength to do anything. Indeed at the moment I can’t walk – well, I can but I look like Benjamin Button just losing his cane. It’s ...
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• Pakistan government to decide hockey team’s participation in World Cup

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  By Omar KhalidKarachi, Nov 24 (IANS) Pakistan’s hockey body will seek the government’s permission before sending the national team to India for next year’s hockey World Cup.Qasim Zia, the Pakistan Hockey Federation (PHF) president, said it will be the government that will decide whether the team can be sent to ...
  19 hours ago

• More on Murdoch and Microsoft

  
  Boston Blogs - Boston's blog network — Authority: 164
  In my latest for the Guardian , I take a closer look at Rupert Murdoch’s dalliance with Microsoft, whose search engine, Bing, is emerging as the main competitor to Google. The Murdoch-Microsoft story, which I first wrote about last week, got a huge boost yesterday in the Financial Times. Today the New York ...
  19 hours ago

• Get To Know P*N’s Staff: Anne Kenny

  
  Platform Nation — Authority: 444
  Next up we bring you one of our newest staff members.  Anne has recently joined the ranks of P*N as a writer and has brought her whole entourage to the forums with her.  Welcome to the family Anne! My name is Anne Kenny (Kanonei), I am 26 years old and I live in the Greater Milwaukee area with my husband, Chad ...
  19 hours ago

• NC dad defends letting mom take girl later slain

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 838
  The father of a North Carolina girl who was kidnapped and killed said Tuesday he made the best decision he could at the time when he let her live with her mother, who has since been charged with prostituting the child.
  19 hours ago

• Arms dealer pleads guilty in Ala. smuggling case

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 838
  A Belgian arms dealer pleaded guilty in an Alabama courtroom to conspiracy to illegally export F-5 fighter jet engines and parts from the U.S. to Iran.
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• Joblessness Skyrockets Among Young Black Americans

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 638
  From the Washington Post: These days, 24-year-old Delonta Spriggs spends much of his time cooped up in his mother’s one-bedroom apartment in Southwest Washington, the TV blaring soap operas hour after hour, trying to stay out of the streets and out of trouble, held captive by the economy. As a young black man, ...
  19 hours ago

• Positive Reviews of the new Tune Multiple Worlds are Flying in!!

  
  Second Life: Music, DJs, Nightlife, Art, and Creativity — Authority: 428
  Recently Slim Girl Fat ( Slim Warrior inSL ) and Brad Reason ( Doubledown Tandino inSL ) released a collaboration track entitled " Multiple Worlds ."  The track has receive a phenomenal warm response filled with comments and praise. "I like the keys at the top, they lend to a certain mystery that the track ...
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• Afghanistan Decision To Be Announced Within Days

  
  NewsOne — Authority: 638
  From CNN: Washington  — President Obama will announce within days whether he will send more troops to Afghanistan, the White House said after he met with his national security team Monday night. “After completing a rigorous final meeting, President Obama has the information he wants and needs to make his ...
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• San Bernardino County officials double mad at filthy Mexican illegal food venders

  
  The Two Malcontents — Authority: 156
  Except for lying thieving filthy Gomez who claims he was given amnesty in ’86, the rest of the venders are illegal aliens and the county could easily take care of the problem by deporting the Mexicans. Yeah well, that would make sense and besides, Napolitano said we’re not allowed to deport lying thieving filthy ...
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• Palin heads to Fla. town that feted her in 2008

  
  Kansas City Star: Kansas State University — Authority: 838
  Sarah Palins "Going Rogue" book tour is heading to a Florida retirement community where she attracted a crowd of tens of thousands as the Republican vice presidential nominee.
  20 hours ago

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