Sunday, March 8, 2009

What I'm reading...

Colleges Sweat Out Admissions This Year

As colleges weigh this year’s round of applications, high school seniors are not the only anxious ones.

Riding the Rails

SOMEWHERE on the west side of Illinois, the Amish men broke out a deck of Skip-Bo cards and I joined them as the cafe car attendant, using an iPod and a set of portable speakers, broadcast Eckhart Tolle, author of “A New Earth,” discoursing on the virtues of stillness.

When Everyone’s a Friend, Is Anything Private?

FACEBOOK has a chief privacy officer, but I doubt that the position will exist 10 years from now. That’s not because Facebook is hell-bent on stripping away privacy protections, but because the popularity of Facebook and other social networking sites has promoted the sharing of all things personal, dissolving the line that separates the private from the public.


Colm Tóibín claims he does not enjoy writing very much. Do other authors share his view?

The Myth of Rampant Teenage Promiscuity

Have American teenagers gone wild?

Obama on Spot as Rulings Aid Gay Partners

WASHINGTON — Just seven weeks into office, President Obama is being forced to confront one of the most sensitive social and political issues of the day: whether the government must provide health insurance benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees.

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