I find this letter of Ayn Rand rich with life's advice while showing clarity and lucidity of thought and words. This letter has gone viral over the last few days, most of them calling Ayn Rand a horrible aunt with no fee...

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Our lives are becoming more public than we realize. Facebook, twitter, pinterest, have all made us more connected to people that we know and sometimes more than we want or need. We are sharing everything on Facebook –bir...

What happened to the phrase “beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder “ Looks like its extinct –at least in South Korea. One in five girls go through some kind of surgery to improve their looks. Girls as young as twelve a...

holder of a Harvard M.B.A., protégé of Clinton Treasury Secretary ( former vice president at ( ( chief operating officer at ( ( and mother of two young children—believes women are holding themselves back. In "Lean In," s...

Workers who boast that they can multitask are actually the worst at doing several things at once and at focusing on single jobs, according to a new study. Serial multitaskers end juggling two activities at once not becau...

Sleep is not a passive state of rest. It is an active biological process during which the brain consolidates memories, clears metabolic waste, repairs cellular damage, regulates hormones, and processes emotional experien...

An Indian radiographer has been sacked from his job at a cancer hospital after six years following a string of complaints that he could not speak clear English. Ramani Ramaswany was dismissed from The Christie hospital,...

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Allegedly upset over her techie-husband's upcoming assignment in the US, homemaker H Sowmya Vishwanath, 25, hanged herself at their house in Channasandra, near Whitefield, on Monday night. Sowmya, a native of Bijapur, ma...

FINS: Facebook to Launch Job Postings Board--Sources Facebook Inc. (FB) is planning to launch its own job board later this summer, said people familiar with the matter. The board will aggregate the job postings of third-...

It's before sunrise, and the janitor at Burns High School has already been down the length of a hallway, cleaning and sweeping classrooms before the day begins. This particular janitor is painstakingly methodical, even a...

It was just six words from a 29-minute news conference, but President Barack Obama's assertion that "the private sector is doing fine" looks primed to play a starring role in this already-fevered campaign season. Preside...

In a case that exposed the intersection of child marriage, bureaucratic rigidity, and institutional indifference to victims, a young woman in India was denied entry into the civil services not because of her own failings...

An analysis of government employee compensation data revealed that physicians and psychiatrists working in California's prison system were among the highest-paid public employees in the state — a finding that generated s...

Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s in India, the period that witnessed increased urban female participation in the labor force with a simultaneous shift in social acceptance and strong encouragement for a working woman, t...

Every day, we find someone falling from grace. Sometimes, it is a big debacle like ENRON, which shakes us up, and begs the question if we are on the right track with our strategies and techniques for getting ahead at the...

The job interview is a peculiar institution. It asks two parties who have never met to assess each other's suitability for a relationship that will define a significant portion of each party's waking life, typically over...