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• Some cities dropping criminal-history question
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Hoping to prevent convicts from being shut out of the work force, some major U.S. cities are eliminating questions from their job applications that ask whether prospective employees have ever been convicted of a crime. Most of the ...
• Be smart about your online profile
Social networking sites typically let you post as much information about yourself as you like, including your education, work history and favorite music and books. You can join countless fan groups or causes. Status updates, which tell how you're ...
• U.S. sentence served, Noriega fights extradition
The onetime CIA operative is a dedicated news junkie, reads voraciously about history and politics and is working on a memoir. Whether the vanquished dictator's story ends in prison or freedom, at home or abroad, depends on how courts in three ...
• Superman's planet is racially diverse — finally
Nelson Bridwell, the assistant on the Superman books at the time. “He took a special interest in ‘caretaking’ the history and fictional culture of Krypton,” Waid says. “More than anyone else who ever lived, Nelson knew that world.” Before ...
• Is this stock market rally for real?
Despite committing over $1 trillion, through a maze of lending programs unprecedented in the Fed's 96-year history, economic data continue to point to a steep decline. “It's impossible given all the government intervention to really figure out what ...