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ABA Journal The 25 Greatest Fictional Lawyers (Who Are Not Atticus Finch)
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Who is your favorite fictional lawyer? Vote here. Hollywood l...More...
ABA Journal Farewell, Atticus
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Since the moment he was introduced 50 years ago in Harper Lee's novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, Atticus Finch has represented both an image lawyers crave and a standard that intimidates them. ...More...
ABA Journal The Jury
Sunday, August 01, 2010

ABA Journal Other Notable Characters That Did Not Fit Into Our Top 25
Sunday, August 01, 2010

ABA Journal The Price of Oil
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Note: This month's CLE, "...More...

Automotive

MarketWatch Auto Review: 2011 Mercedes Benz E550 Cabriolet: Handles it all
Saturday, July 31, 2010
The 2011 Mercedes Benz E550 Cabriolet in unruffled by Mother Nature and you get the feeling it will handle anything that you can throw at it on the road. But the great engineering doesn't come cheap. ...More...
AutoWeek Green Cars: Report on hybrid and other alternative fuel cars
Saturday, July 31, 2010
In terms of green car technology, North America is just catching up to the rest of the world. As green technology costs come in line with the value to the consumer, we'll probably see more eco-friendly cars hit the street. Whether it's gasoline-elect...More...
AutoWeek Green Cars: Report on hybrid and other alternative fuel cars
Saturday, July 31, 2010
In terms of green car technology, North America is just catching up to the rest of the world. As green technology costs come in line with the value to the consumer, we'll probably see more eco-friendly cars hit the street. Whether it's gasoline-elect...More...
MarketWatch Auto Review: 2011 Ford Explorer: Complete makeover
Saturday, July 31, 2010
The 2011 Ford Explorer truly is all new, and not just in the Detroit sense of the term. The 2011 will have a unitized body instead of the old truck-like body-on-frame. How many consumers do you think care about that, I wonder? ...More...
Los Angeles Times GM to increase Chevy Volt production by 50%
Saturday, July 31, 2010
GM says it aims to increase production of the electric vehicle to 45,000 in 2012. It says the Volt will be available in seven states in December. Nissan says its electric Leaf will be available in five states, including California, in December. Coun...More...

Careers

BusinessWeek BP's Board Has Questions to Answer, Too
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Ben Heineman calls for an independent inquiry into why BP's board didn't apply lessons learned from the energy giant's previous safety problems...More...
BusinessWeek BP: A Failure of Focus and Metrics
Saturday, July 31, 2010

About.com What Not to Post On the Internet
Saturday, July 31, 2010
I know someone, who will remain nameless for obvious reasons, who sent a LinkedIn message to every single one of his contacts. He told them he ...More...
Brazen Careerist On NOT Setting Expectations
Saturday, July 31, 2010
On one hand, I think setting expectations for yourself is a great thing. If I didn’t have high expectations for myself I wouldn’t have just finished university, I wouldn’t be training for a marathon etc....More...
Brazen Careerist They’ve Landed: One path to a career, not just a job!
Saturday, July 31, 2010
*“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” – Abraham Lincoln* *and I’d like to think I hustle!* Feel free to fast for...More...

Entertainment

Chicago Tribune Review: Dead Weather lives boldly
Sunday, August 01, 2010
As the Dead Weather locked into a stampeding "Blue Blood Blues" at a near-capacity Congress Theater on Friday, Jack White howled, "I don't need to exist!" ...More...
Boston Globe Schreker's opera 'Distant Sound' heard at Bard
Saturday, July 31, 2010
His name is all but forgotten today, but a century ago Franz Schreker was considered perhaps the most important operatic composer since Richard Wagner. ...More...
Boston Globe Fame and fortune
Saturday, July 31, 2010
HANOVER, N.H. — In some ways, Andy Warhol lived the American dream. He grew up in the slums of Pittsburgh, a child of working-class immigrants. He made it big, first as a commercial artist and then as a fine artist. He died rich and famous, in...More...
Boston Globe A smorgasbord of time and place
Saturday, July 31, 2010
LENOX — The humid air in the upstairs rehearsal room, barely stirred by the weak efforts of a small fan, closes in around the actors. It is a hot July day in the Berkshires, so hot that even those just sitting in the sun-soaked room — the...More...
Boston Globe Prisoners of the past
Saturday, July 31, 2010
In Cammie McGovern’s suburban noir, fear and secrets are alive and well on Juniper Lane. There, in “Neighborhood Watch,’’ Betsy Treading attends a meeting to protect herself and her neighbors from outsiders, but it turns out t...More...

Finance

Washington Post Consumer complaints rise as protection resources dwindle
Saturday, July 31, 2010
State and local consumer-protection agencies across the country should pool their limited resources and start an advertising campaign called "Gotcha." ...More...
Washington Post Small businesses: Measuring their power and their problems
Saturday, July 31, 2010
He may be locked in combat with Wall Street and the Business Roundtable, but President Obama spoke nostalgically last week about the virtues of small business. ...More...
Washington Post Umbrella-liability policy can protect finances from costly lawsuits
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Q We have homeowners and auto insurance with $300,000 in liability coverage, but someone suggested that we get a $1 million personal-liability umbrella policy. Why would we need this much coverage ? ...More...
Washington Post Interview with Fidelity Low-Priced Stock Fund manager Jeff Tillinghast
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Joel Tillinghast is arguably the least-celebrated superstar in the fund business. Fidelity Low-Priced Stock, which he has run since December 1989, is the third-best-performing fund over the past 20 years (with an annualized return through May 31 of 1...More...
Barrons Double Dip Didn't Happen
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Technically, that is, but market jitters persist. Auto parts stocks look fully valued, though, and a meter maker does, too....More...

Gadgets, Hardware, & Software

Engadget.com Remote Control Mario Kart toys tested, don't drift but do shoot (video)
Saturday, July 31, 2010
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Gizmodo.com StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty Review: Upgrade Complete [Review]
Saturday, July 31, 2010
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Mac World Review: Office Heroes for iPhone
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Sick of being an office drone? Why not spend your free time on a social networking game that attempts to make the office life exciting and fun? Developed by Astro Ape Studios, Office Heroes is a free-to-play, Farmville-esque…office game. ...More...
Mac World FCC concerned over DefCon mobile hacking talk
Saturday, July 31, 2010
The FCC is concerned over a planned Defcon demonstration of GSM mobile-phone interception. ...More...
Mac World OWC’s service adds eSATA port to new 27-inch iMac
Saturday, July 31, 2010
On Friday, OWC announced a turnkey upgrade program for the 27-inch iMac, which includes an eSATA upgrade. ...More...

Health

MSN.com Why Cancer Screening Campaigns Can Backfire
Saturday, July 31, 2010

MSN.com Too Soon to Tell Whether Dengue Fever Will Spread in U.S.
Saturday, July 31, 2010

MSN.com Sciatica Relief May Depend on Type of Steroid Delivery
Saturday, July 31, 2010

MSN.com Mom's Weight Before Pregnancy May Affect Weight of Child
Saturday, July 31, 2010

MSN.com Experimental Diet Pill May Bring 'Modest' Weight Loss
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Management

BusinessWeek A Booster Shot for Gay-Owned Businesses
Saturday, July 31, 2010

Wall Street Journal MetLife's Henrikson Seeks the Right Note
Friday, July 30, 2010
MetLife's chief executive, C. Robert Henrikson, is known for breaking out in song to make a point. Can he hit the right note with his plans to diversify the insurer's products and its global reach?...More...
Wall Street Journal Disney Taps Lee as ABC Entertainment Chief
Friday, July 30, 2010
Disney named Paul Lee, the head of its ABC Family cable-television channel, to run entertainment programming for the ABC network....More...
Fast Company Why Tech Nerds Love Flying Virgin America
Friday, July 30, 2010
This interview is part of our ongoing series related to ...More...
Marketing Vox Can Groupon Change Consumers' Minds about Ad Targeting?
Friday, July 30, 2010
Consumers, judging from the numbers, love social buying sites such as Groupon. Consumer also, judging from numerous surveys, hate online behavioral tracking and ad targeting. But now that Groupon has......More...

Style

Washington Post Nuptials: Maggie Fox-Kirsch and Philip Wilkerson III
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Maggie Fox-Kirsch is a children's mental health therapist. Philip Wilkerson III is a graduate student. They're 25 and live in Alexandria. ...More...
Washington Post Nuptials: Shannon Simpers and Mark Caine
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Shannon Simpers, 27, is a waitress. Mark Caine, 29, serves in the Royal Air Force. They will live in Lossiemouth, Scotland. ...More...
Washington Post Arcade Fire's bombast gets boring on new record, 'The Suburbs'
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Expectations run dangerously high for Arcade Fire, a band so fluent in grand gestures fans expect nothing short of indie-rock transcendence. But how do you make a tour de force that doesn't sound tour-de-forced? ...More...
Washington Post New DVDs let you savor 1960s Salzburg Festival productions of Mozart operas
Saturday, July 31, 2010
It's easy to imagine that in our era of plentiful early-music singers, historically informed conductors and theatrically savvy stage directors, we've pretty much written the book on how to effectively perform Mozart's operas. Spend an evening, though...More...
Washington Post Carolyn Hax: Denying grandma access to kids is no solution to this rift
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Dear Carolyn: I'm happily married, but the relationship (or lack thereof) between my wife and mother has been a huge stressor on our marriage for years. My wife feels that from Day One my mother didn't show an interest in getting to know her as a per...More...

Technology

techCrunch Help Key: Watch Netflix From Outside The U.S.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
You Americans have all the good stuff. Stuff like BP pumping oil in the Ocean and guns, lots of guns. And then you have Netflix and we people outside the U.S. are wondering what could it feel like to have a service like that. Now I know....More...
Yahoo! OWCâs service adds eSATA port to new 27-inch iMac (Macworld.com)
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Macworld.com - For whatever reason,Â Apple refuses to outfit a Mac with readily-accessible eSATA ports. The company seems to think thatÂ FireWire and USB are enough for external devices....More...
techCrunch From OpenWebAsia In Kuala Lumpur: South East Asia’s Web Under The Spotlight
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Earlier this month, I attended OpenWebAsia – South East Asia in Kuala Lumpur/Malaysia, a two-day tech and web industry event that attracted over 350 international attendees. The...More...
Yahoo! DXG to offer $600 3D Pocket Camcorder (Macworld.com)
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Macworld.com - With 3D movies gaining acceptance and 3D HDTVs on the market, it was only a matter of time before a 3D camcorder for the masses hit the market. DXG hopes to be at the forefront of the 3D camcorder trend with its $600 DXG-5D7V 3D Pocket...More...
Yahoo! Microsoft Needs a Tablet Strategy, Not a Tablet (PC World)
Saturday, July 31, 2010
PC World - Ballmer promised the world that a Windows 7 tablet is coming. Maybe it is, or maybe it's just a pipedream, but Microsoft doesn't need to focus on developing a Windows 7 tablet. Microsoft does need to focus on having a strategy for taking a...More...

Work / Life

LifeHacker.com Top 10 Tools and Tactics to Trim Your Bills [Lifehacker Top 10]
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Cutting down your cellphone, rent,...More...
LifeHacker.com How Can I Make iOS 4 Usable on My iPhone 3G? [Ask Lifehacker]
Friday, July 30, 2010
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LifeHacker.com Turn Off HTC's Sense UI on Your Android Phone and Use the Default Android Launcher [Android Tip]
Friday, July 30, 2010
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Yahoo! The pill equally effective in obese, thin women (Reuters)
Friday, July 30, 2010
Reuters - Despite studies suggesting that birth control pills might not work as well in obese women, a new study suggests that they prevent pregnancy the same no matter what a woman weighs....More...
LifeHacker.com Freemake Is a Remarkably Simple, Yet Feature-Filled Video Converter and Editor [Downloads]
Friday, July 30, 2010
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World News

Los Angeles Times Death toll in Pakistan floods hits 800
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Officials fear the number could rise once emergency teams are able to survey devastated areas. Authorities are stepping up efforts to provide relief and rescue stranded villagers. As the death toll from this week's flash floods rose to at least 800...More...
Yahoo! Crowd on VIP alert at site of Clinton's NY wedding (AP)
Saturday, July 31, 2010
AP - Chelsea Clinton was poised to marry her longtime boyfriend at an exclusive esta...More...
UPI BP well may be sealed by end of August
Saturday, July 31, 2010
NEW ORLEANS, July 31 (UPI) -- BP officials say they now expect to have the company's blown-out oil well in the Gulf of Mexico sealed top and bottom by the end of August. ...More...
UPI Almagro, Gasquet to meet for Gstaad title
Saturday, July 31, 2010
GSTAAD, Switzerland, July 31 (UPI) -- Spain's Nicolas Almagro and Richard Gasquet of France will face off for the Swiss Open Gstaad title after both won semifinal matches Saturday. ...More...
New York Daily News Defenders throw 'everything that we've got' at 20-square-mile fire
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Hundreds of firefighters face a brutal weekend of high temperatures and erratic winds as they work to contain a fast-moving wildfire that by Friday night had blackened 20 square miles near densely populated areas of Palmdale....More...

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