Since last year?s demise of the CLASS Act, those of us worried about how the U.S. will finance the long-term care needs of the frail elderly and younger adults with disabilities have been looking for an opportunity to reopen the issue. Today, in a small first step in that direction, about two dozen state and ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 02:55

When mighty mouth Rush Limbaugh called law student Sandra Fluke a ?slut???because she supported the idea that birth-control pills should be a covered benefit by insurance companies, he angered a lot of sisters struggling for dignity in a misogynistic world. Slut is a word of disgust. Hatred. When we feel disgust for something, we flush ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 02:55

It's not often you get an invite to a fashion show on a Sunday but when it's Krane, it's worth it.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 03:53

This fascinating short TED Talk by Prof. David Lordkipanidze, General Director of the Georgian National Museum, recounts his discovery of early human remains in Dmanisi in his native country. The skulls and bones that Lordkipanidze uncovered are 1.8 million years old?far from anywhere paleontologists ever expected to find members of our genus?and far older. As ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 03:53

Noda and his key allies, Okada and Maehara, have scheduled Wednesday-Friday of this week for the final push on this legislation. Indications now point toward collapse and humiliating failure.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 03:53

The Internet is full of awesome "I quit" stories, but not much tops Greg Smith's departure from investment firm Goldman Sachs: he published his motives for leaving in the New York Times' op-ed section. One of his many reasons? "The environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it." Well, Darth Vader also agreed that he didn't like the change in the culture of his beloved Empire. So he too resigned.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 05:10

It's true that some Republicans' views on Romneycare have evolved over time. What goes less remarked-upon is that something similar can be said, in reverse, on Medicare reform. There, it is Republicans who have tried to propose ideas from the starboard side of health wonkery, only to get rebuffed by the reforms' most prominent liberal advocates.

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 04:31

Earlier this week, a Google employee named William Chan published a post on Google Plus about the way his team was planning to solve some problems that the Chrome browser was having delivering Web addresses. The issues, and the solution, are highly technical. But they boil down to this: in order to deliver pages faster, ...

pubblicato il: 15/03/2012 - 04:54

Learnings from the ?How to Lose Co-Founders and Alienate Startups? panel at SXSW. By Dana Rosenberg (Startup Enthusiast, Self) There are any number of failure points for startups - lacking focus, scaling your product too quickly, draining capital, pursuing a derivative idea, hiring the wrong people, execution.. the list goes on. No matter how many ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 17:25

Editor's Note: A Not-to-Be Missed Event! Catch Technically Speaking's Jim Wyckoff for an exclusive engagement. Jim will be sharing his technical thoughts in an in-depth webinar on Thursday March 15, 2012. ??Register Now! (Kitco News) ? An S&P Capital IQ analyst says he looks for gold to move higher by the end of the year ...

pubblicato il: 14/03/2012 - 15:53