College seniors plan to move back with parents
With the job market tough to crack, 85 percent of recently surveyed college seniors said they planned to move back home with their parents after graduation.
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Korea's kimchi crisis
In Korea, shortages have caused a 500 percent increase in the price of Napa cabbage and a 300 percent increase for domestic radishes, driving up the price of kimchi, the country’s pungent national dish. Korean newspapers are calling the kimchi situation “a national tragedy” and “a once-in-a-century crisis.”
The New York Times
Allocating medical research dollars
The U.S. spends $5.6 billion a year on cancer research, $1 billion for heart-disease research, and just $500 million on Alzheimer’s research—even though Alzheimer’s affects about one out of three people over 80.
Time
Mumbai's billion-dollar residence
Mukesh Ambani, an Indian petrochemical magnate, has built the world’s first billion-dollar residence, in Mumbai. The 27-story skyscraper, towering over the slums downtown, has 400,000 square feet of space and such amenities as a movie theater, an “ice room” with man-made snow flurries, a four-story open garden with trees, nine elevators, three helipads, and six stories of parking space for guests and 600 staff. No two floors will be alike in design or building materials.
Forbes
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Who will win the battle for the soul of the Green Party?An ideological divide is taking root among the environmentalists
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Very rich and very poor in California, and morefeature California is home to 111 billionaires, yet it also suffers the highest poverty rate in the country.
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Arctic cold kills tree insects, and more
feature This winter’s arctic temperatures have had at least one beneficial impact: They’ve killed ash borers, gypsy moths, and other tree-eating insects.
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Congress's poor record, and more
feature The 113th Congress is on course to pass less legislation than any Congress in history.
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Gender differences in employment, and more
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A first for West Point, and more
feature For the first time, two male graduates of West Point were married at the military academy’s chapel.
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A God given land?, and more
feature More white evangelical Protestants than U.S Jews believe that Israel was “given to the Jewish people by God.”
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Jailing the mentally ill, and more
feature American prisons have replaced state mental hospitals as a place to warehouse the mentally ill.
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Treating Internet addiction, and more
feature Treating Internet addiction; Freshman virgins at Harvard; A salary handicap for lefties; Prices for vintage automobiles soar; Gun permits for blind people