Today's college grads want work that speaks to their values and interests. They've learned from prior generations that "killing yourself to do everything for your employer" doesn't always pay off. They're pursuing side hustles and freelancing rather than settling down at big companies. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. College grads used to want big money from a big company. Now th
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TOKYO (AP) — Jack Ma, a cofounder of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, will be a visiting professor at Tokyo College, a research institute run by the prestigious University of Tokyo, the university said Monday.
Ma will carry out research in sustainable agriculture and food production, it said in a statement.
It said that Ma, who also heads his own Jack Ma Foundation, a philanthropic organization, will “share his rich experience and pioneering knowledge on entrepreneurship, corporate m
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With David Beckham having told of his experiences of living with obsessive compulsive disorder for a new Netflix series, we take a look at the condition, and how common it is.
What is OCD?
OCD is not simply about liking things to be neat – the condition can have a serious impact on individuals and their quality of life. It is a mental health condition in which people often have obsessive, typically distressing, thoughts as well as compulsions or rituals.
The UK’s Royal College of Ps
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Joe Biden in 1987: 'Change' retirement age for Social Security 03:50 - Source: CNN Editor’s Note: Christopher Howard is the Pamela C. Harriman Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William Mary. He is a member of the National Academy of Social Insurance and the Scholars Strategy Network. His latest book is “Who Cares: The Social Safety Net in America.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are the writer’s own. View more opinion on CNN
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At the start of 2023, the good people at the Department of Experimental Psychology at University College London surveyed 200 men between the ages of 18 and 74, and supposedly discovered scientifically what we all knew already: Men driving fast cars likely have small dicks. Put more precisely, the authors stated that there was “a casual psychological link between fast cars and small penises.” The thinking, according to their paper, is that men who believe they are somehow lacking in the
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The leader of the Royal College of Nursing has said a legal attempt by the health secretary to block next weekend’s strike in England is “frightening for democracy and very frightening for trade unionism”.
Pat Cullen, general secretary of the RCN, said it was “disgraceful” that Steve Barclay was attempting to thwart the strike via the courts, and said nurses would “not be bullied into silence”. “We have instructed our legal counsel and we will stand up for nursing. This is abou
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Care home residents urgently need more security to prevent “revenge evictions”, campaigners say, after research revealed that at least one in 70 care residents in England received a notice to quit last year.
Providers currently need to give just 28 days’ notice for a resident to leave their home. The research, by King’s College London backed by the Relatives and Residents Association (RRA), found many evictions came after complaints. In one case, a 96-year-old woman was issued a notice
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The GOP has taken to calling everything Democrats do "grooming." Sensible gun regulation? Grooming! Questioning a highly corrupt Supreme Court Justice? Grooming! Addressing college debt? Groooooming!!! But according to GOP Missouri Sen. Mike Moon, allowing someone to marry a 12-year-old is simply delightful. In 2018 Moon voted against a bill that would have banned the barbaric practice. Here's an extraordinary exchange in the House between Democrat Rep. Peter Merideth and Sen. Moon that took pl
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Jeremy Peer felt stuck at his $60,000 accounting salary but can't afford to go to business school. A TikTok account inspired him to pursue business analytics as a career switch. His SQL data analytics training was only $250, and he's working towards a free Microsoft certification. Loading Something is loading. Thanks for signing up! Access your favorite topics in a personalized feed while you're on the go. It took Jeremy Peer 10 years to pay off $40,000 in student loans for h
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