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Are sweaty brokers more ethical?
22 May 2012 at 9:44am
LONDON (Reuters) - If you want to know how ethical your broker is, give them a moral dilemma and see how much they sweat before deciding what to do. It's quite a jump from the laboratory to real-world decisions about asset management but British r...
Fired for being "too hot," New Jersey woman claims
21 May 2012 at 5:00pm
(Reuters) - A New Jersey woman said on Monday that she was dismissed from a temporary job at a New York lingerie warehouse because her male employers felt she was too busty and dressed too provocatively for the workplace. Wearing a form-fitting se...
For $5 you can get a fake girlfriend on Facebook
21 May 2012 at 2:50pm
A new website is offering virtual dating services to single men for as little as $5. 22-year-old college student Cody Krecicki launched GirlfriendHire last month and says women on his site have already sold 300 bookings while 100,000 curious indiv...
University of Texas apologizes for ?pubic affairs? commencement typo
21 May 2012 at 1:36pm
The University of Texas at Austin's public affairs assistant dean has issued an apology after a commencement listing for the program's forthcoming graduates contained a typo citing the Lyndon B. Johnson School of 'Pubic' Affairs. Even the best wri...
Artist arrested while hanging ?I ? NY? bags from streetlights, charged with ?...
21 May 2012 at 1:09pm
An artist who installed illuminated plastic shopping bags emblazoned with the "I ? NY" logo on lampposts in Brooklyn was arrested over the weekend, charged with "planting false bombs" and ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation. Takeshi Miy...
$1 million parking spot will be New York City?s most expensive
21 May 2012 at 12:45pm
Finding parking in New York City can be notoriously difficult. But would you pay $1 million just to have your own guaranteed spot? That's the forthcoming offer in one luxury condo building that will charge $1,000,000 for an otherwise standard park...
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