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27 minutes ago
Portland, Oregon, has cut their weekly garbage pickup to every other week in an effort to help the city go 'green.' They are placing more emphasis on recycling and composting food scraps.

How would you react if your city reduced the frequency of trash collection?
Video - Portland, Oregon's Cutback in Garbage Pickup Helps It Go Green - WSJ.com
WSJ's Joel Millman checks in on Mean Street to discuss Portland, Oregon, which abolished weekly garbage pickup and now has the attention of other U.S cities that want to copy its green waste pickup efforts. Photo: Leah Nash for The Wall Street Journal.
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If Congress fails to act, the interest rate would rise to 6.8% for about 7.4 million undergraduates projected to take out new Stafford Loans, the most common kind of student loan, over the next year.
Senate Leaders Reach Student-Loan Deal
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Senate leaders said they had reached a tentative deal to keep most student-loan interest rates at 3.4% for another year, preventing the rates from doubling.
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Emilio Da Silva Means nothing, you have just delayed the ticking time bomb of the one loan that cant be thrown of your shoulders with bankruptcy.
37 minutes ago
John Osborne What about my loans I took out 3 years ago? My rate is still 6.8%.
8 minutes ago
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3 hours ago
In an effort to overcome a shortage of female workers in the tech industry, a new organization called Girls who Code is starting a program for high-school-age girls to teach them how to build websites and mobile apps and start their own com...panies.

Our story: http://on.wsj.com/LO9bMb

What do you think of the endeavor? What else needs to be done for more women to pursue careers in engineering and computer science?

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5 hours ago
Nearly four in 10 Americans told a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll that they would have "mixed feelings" if the Supreme Court struck down the whole health-care law on Thursday.

Just over a quarter said they would be very pleased, while 17% said they would be very disappointed by that outcome.

Where do you stand on the issue?
Americans Divided on Health-Law Ruling
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Slightly more Americans than not think the federal health-care overhaul was a bad idea, but divisions run deeper among voters over whether the Supreme Court should overturn the law.
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6 hours ago
Why is the Apple demographic so important to Orbitz and retailers?

Studies suggest that adult owners of Mac computers are not only wealthier, but they also skew younger than PC users.
Why the Apple Demographic Is So Important to Orbitz and Retailers
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Apple is practically creating its own demographic – one companies like Orbitz are starting to target.
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Tyneshia Hardison Yea Mike I agree and I get the target marketing concept but to assume one is wealthy is just wrong lol
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Kyle Zimmerman Much of the Mac demographic are only part of that group because they are 'trend' followers. Maybe percieved by some advertisers as more susceptible to their propaganda?
3 hours ago
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7 hours ago
A popular saying on Wall Street holds that the U.S. is the "best house in a bad neighborhood" for investors. Now it's also starting to look like the priciest.

U.S. shares gained 3.5% over the past year, vs. declines of 20% for Europe and 18% for emerging markets like China and Brazil. http://sm.wsj.com/Omb06E
For bargain hunters, recent U.S. performance makes now a good time to look abroad. http://sm.wsj.com/Omb06E
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Aoibhneas Leathchúpla China and the Saudis have already realized this "good deal"; as they are the mortgage holders for this country and laugh at our legacy and their protests and other foolhardy "banners" of anti this and anti that...just like their grandparents!
2 hours ago
Thomas Arthur Food staples, other cost of living increases and unemployment make this information irrelevant. Its like saying..the world is drowning in financial woes but the U.S. is drowning with some nice shoes on.
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8 hours ago
New technology can help tally the speed and force of a boxer's punches, potentially removing subjectivity that some fans feel has ruined boxing. http://on.wsj.com/Oqjkna

Boxers can wear gear inside their gloves to transmit the data to tele...vision viewers. It's only legal so far only in Nevada. Would you like to see it more widely used? Would such data help or hurt your enjoyment of the sport? How do you think it would have settled the Pacquaiao/Bradley bout?

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Hussam Labeck teachers should implant one of these inside their hands
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6 hours ago
Allen Zakharin This is not new technology. Clearly this author has never seen Rocky IV.
5 hours ago
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22 hours ago
Orbitz has found that people who use Apple's Mac computers spend as much as 30% more a night on hotels, so the online travel agency is starting to show them different, and sometimes costlier, travel options than Windows visitors see.

How do you feel about the approach? Should your computer's operating system be used to serve you different search results?
On Orbitz, Mac Users Steered to Pricier Hotels
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Orbitz executives confirmed that the company is experimenting with showing different hotel offers to Mac and PC visitors, but said the company isn't showing the same room to different users at different prices.
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You may want to check your Facebook profile. The profiles of Facebook users with an email contact apparent in their profiles were updated to an @facebook.com email address.

What do you think of the change?
Facebook Surprises Users With Email Change
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Facebook appeared to surprise many users Monday by automatically changing the email address in their online profiles to one provided by Facebook's own email service.
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