Archive | Columns
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Apple TV and Roku 2 XS: Same price, different features
In an increasingly Internet-based world, traditional cable boxes are becoming obsolete. In its 2011 second-quarter earnings results, Time Warner announced it had lost 130,000 customers, or 1 percent of total subscribers. Users may have turned to streaming boxes like the Apple TV or Roku 2 XS.
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Column: Unpaid internships often worth it
Excitement overwhelms you as you hang up the phone. You pinch yourself to make sure you’re not dreaming. It’s for real: You were just offered your dream internship. Unfortunately, there’s a catch (isn’t there always?). The internship is unpaid and in a different state.
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Column: Apple should lead the way to better work standards
Last May, an Apple factory in Chengdu, China exploded due to unsafe working conditions and hazardous materials. There were two blasts that year; four workers were killed and 77 were injured. Media attention to the Foxconn suicides also heightened concern for supplier factory workers.
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Column: Kagan, Thomas need to recuse themselves
“Simply amazing.” Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan penned those two words in an email to a former Harvard colleague on the day the House of Representatives passed Obamacare in March 2010. The email’s subject line said it all: “Fingers and toes crossed today!
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Column: The bias against the liberal media
Many media pundits attribute Newt Gingrich's win in the South Carolina primary last Saturday to his attacks on the liberal media during his recent debate performances.
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Column: The sinking of owner-ships
The story of the Titanic has captivated the world for nearly a century — so much so that the tragedy became a pop culture icon with the release of the 1997 movie, “Titanic.
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Column: What if no one wins? A brokered convention is possible
In the days following Mitt Romney’s overwhelming victory in New Hampshire, his route to the nomination looked relatively easy. He appeared to have won in both Iowa and New Hampshire—something no non-incumbent Republican has ever done.
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Column: China enters space race
In the space race era of the 1950s through 1970s the two superpowers — U.S. and Soviet Union — spent a colossal amount of manpower and finances for achieving supremacy in space exploration.
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Column: What is Capitalism?
The current presidential campaign and the Occupy movement have many Americans discussing the character and causes of grossly unequal distributions of income, wealth and political power. But most of the dialogue I hear suffers from a faulty understanding of “capitalism.