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LinkedIn's 2010 list of the most overused profile words revealed a national quirk: India loved 'dynamic.' America preferred 'extensive experience.'

January 10, 2011 · 1 min read

A Virginia court secretly ordered Twitter to surrender five WikiLeaks-linked accounts. WikiLeaks demanded Google and Facebook disclose their own subpoenas.

January 8, 2011 · 1 min read

Admired and reviled in equal measure: Goldman Sachs after the 2008 crisis, from TARP repayment to the $550 million Abacus fraud settlement.

January 7, 2011 · 1 min read

Women in South Asia were 37% less likely than men to own a phone. In 2010, a Clinton- and Blair-backed push called mWomen set out to close that gap.

January 6, 2011 · 2 min read

A Michigan school district barred the Sikh kirpan in late 2010 after a fourth-grader carried one to class, sparking debate over faith and zero-tolerance.

January 6, 2011 · 1 min read

Facebook Addiction Disorder was a 2009 media invention, not a real diagnosis. Compulsive social media use is studied - but FAD was never in any manual.

January 6, 2011 · 1 min read

After Punjab governor Salman Taseer's assassination in January 2011, fears grew for Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman on death row for blasphemy.

January 6, 2011 · 2 min read

A lasting marriage isn't always a happy one. Research on self-expansion suggests the happiest couples are the ones still learning together.

January 5, 2011 · 1 min read

A 2011 UK report found grooming gangs were disproportionately Pakistani-origin — and that fear of seeming racist had silenced police and social workers.

January 5, 2011 · 2 min read

In December 2010, Roslyn High School handed 47 iPads to students in two classes — an early test of whether tablets could replace textbooks.

January 5, 2011 · 1 min read

A BVA-Gallup survey ranked France among the world's least happy nations and India among the most optimistic. Subjective wellbeing is about expectations.

January 5, 2011 · 1 min read

Marital drift — the slow divergence of two people sharing a house — is the least dramatic and most common reason long marriages end. Why it happens.

January 3, 2011 · 1 min read

Mandatory HIV tests for foreign teachers — but not ethnic Koreans — reignited a debate about xenophobia in South Korea. A look back at the 2010 controversy.

January 3, 2011 · 1 min read

Don't bank calories, savor what's special, and build in movement: practical, non-guilt-laden guidance for navigating the season's abundance.

December 29, 2010 · 1 min read

A 2010 salmonella outbreak linked to alfalfa sprouts sickened 94 people across 16 states — a reminder that even 'healthy' food carries real risks.

December 29, 2010 · 1 min read

In 2010 the internet's best promise was unglamorous: skilled amateurs finding audiences that print's gatekeepers never anticipated.

December 28, 2010 · 1 min read

Quitting smoking doesn't just prevent disease — research shows ex-smokers' mood, anxiety, and wellbeing eventually match people who never smoked.

December 25, 2010 · 1 min read

Thinner, lighter, cameras at last, a faster chip: the late-2010 iPad 2 rumor mill turned out to be mostly right when Apple delivered in March 2011.

December 23, 2010 · 1 min read

In 2010 Google paid $1.9 billion for 111 Eighth Avenue in New York — a decade after its NYC team began as one person working from a Starbucks.

December 23, 2010 · 1 min read

Amitabh Bachchan and Prateik Babbar cast together in Prakash Jha's Aarakshan. The news revived memories of Smita Patil, who died at 31 in 1986.

December 23, 2010 · 1 min read