Says "Hoodie": I began writing Leap Year when I decided to leave my job at Google and follow my passion. The thirteen track album is a look into my world and what it means to step out of your comfort zone. I wanted Leap Year to mirror my life and experiences--it’s fun, crazy, sarcastic, and i... Read more...
NSF certifies water filtration products & one of the pitchers it has certified is manufactured by ZeroWater. I’d heard a bit about their filters, being comparable to a reverse osmosis system, and when I started reading, I came across “TDS,” or total dissolved solids, for the firs... Read more...

When Hurricane Katrina devastated one of New Orleans’ oldest public housing developments, families were displaced and job opportunities became scarce. Goldman Sachs’ Urban Investment Group joined with an experienced developer, McCormack Baron Salazar, to destroy the neighborhood and displ... Read more...
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday. The former first lady and onetime political rival to President Barack Obama quickly bec... Read more...
It's a topic often shuttered behind backyard fences or resigned to a picture-frame in the corner of an office. The disquieting crossroads where motherhood confronts job ambition comes into full view in a new anthology of women's reflections, "Torn: True Stories of Kids, Career, and the Conflict... Read more...
He calls it the UnCollege movement. Nineteen-year-old Dale Stephens is urging his peers to rethink the need for college, arguing that they can get more out of pursuing real-world skills than completing homework assignments and studying for exams. "I want to change the notion that a college... Read more...
By Eli Saslow IN MEMPHIS - His week had begun with a graduation ceremony, a standing ovation and a walk across the stage to meet the president of the United States. Kenneth Roberson was a top-ranked student at the high school President Obama had selected as the country's most "inspiring," and t... Read more...

A record-low one in four U.S. teenagers will land a summer job in the coming months as a result of a still-poor job market and lost federal funding, according to a report issued on Monday. As a consequence, urban studies experts said cities like Chicago -- where summer unemployment among African-... Read more...
Companies across the United States have started including some prescription drugs in random employee drug tests, and firing workers who test positive. For example, Sue Bates lost her job of 22 years as an assembly line worker at Dura Automotive Systems after she tested positive for hyrdrocodone, ... Read more...