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The cubicle turns 40 this month
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GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. - The oft-derided "cubicle" is turning 40 years old this month.
The open-office style was originally known as the "Action Office," and was introduced by West Michigan's Herman Miller Company in 1968.
Wind scatters hundreds of bills as man leaves bank, but good Samaritans rush in to help
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The Declining Value Of Your College Degree
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The Beginning of the End for America's AAA Rating?
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Over the past three days, the price of a credit default swap (or CDS, a form of "insurance" on creditworthiness) on 10-year U.S. government debt has risen by 8.3 basis points (one-hundreths of a percentage point), or 61 percent, to 21.8 basis points, and is now almost 80% higher than the median value of this CDS since it was first quoted on April 2.
After Eight Years Of Bush Presidency American Life Is Suddenly One Million Dollars Cheaper
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It's not just the American dollar that's losing value. A government agency has decided that an American life isn't worth what it used to be.
The "value of a statistical life" is $6.9 million in today's dollars, the Environmental Protection Agency reckoned in May — a drop of nearly $1 million from just five years ago.
Commission Cracks Down On Bully Doctors
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CHICAGO -- Bullying doctors can make nurses afraid to question their performance, resulting in medical errors, according to a hospital group that announced new requirements for cracking down on intimidating behavior.
Latest Dictionary Debuts With About 100 New Words
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Why 4% Food Inflation Figure Is Bullshit (USA TODAY Article)
Retirees Sally and Robert Jones of Alpine, Texas, have reverted back to some of the menus that got them through graduate school many years ago, l
Irish woman seeks 'husband' for beer
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Julia Galvin came to Finland looking for a man that would carry her 120 kg over a 253-metres track – the incentive being the chance to win the wife-carrying world title and beer worth her body weight.
Man sells soul for $3,800 ... to a pizza joint
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A New Zealand man has sold his soul to hell -- Hell Pizza, that is.
The New Zealand pizza chain said Thursday it had struck a deal with Walter Scott, 24, to buy a deed to his soul, shortly after an online auction site that initially agreed to the sale withdrew it from the Internet because of complaints it was in bad taste.
