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| Work | Unemployment reached a five-year high of 6.1 percent in August. The Department of Labor says another 84,000 jobs were lost (more than expected) and that job losses in June and July were also heavier than had been forecast. That means that so far this year, 605,000 jobs have disappeared.
| Strategies for employed and jobless alike, in the Washington Post: Register online with LinkedIn to expand your circle of contacts. Sign up for e-mail alerts about your company so you know early what's happening. And at the office, advises Stephen Viscusi (Bulletproof Your Job), be visible, be easy, be useful, and be ready. |
| Society | "I think the Internet is making us all impatient," cultural critic Lee Siegel told New Scientist. "We're so used to getting what we want online, when we want it. Now we get frustrated when we don't get everything we want in our social lives." The author of Against the Machine says, "Online, anything goes. All of the things that plague human nature are still present, even amplified, on the Internet." And that includes bullying.
| Judith Martin, aka Miss Manners, does not approve, especially of bullying in the guise of complaining. "Expressing anger doesn't usually change people's behavior," she told the Financial Times. "If you start screaming and yelling, they write you off as someone who would never be pleased anyway."
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| Health | "Walking has to do with exploration, a way of accommodating myself, of feeling at home," writes Geoff Nicholson in The Lost Art of Walking: The History, Science, Philosophy, and Literature of Pedestrianism (Riverhead, $24.95). "When I find myself in a new place, I explore it on foot. It's the way I get to know that place ... Setting foot in a street makes it yours in a way that driving down it never does." | Walkscore.com tells you the amenities of neighborhoods new and old and gives each area a walkability score from zero to 100. And if you want to know how far you've walked (or run), you don't have to hop in the car, reset the odometer, and drive the route. Mapmyrun.com shows distances, elevations, and new routes. |
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