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As he made the rounds of Jersey City’s sprawling Medical Center last week, Mayor Thomas J. Whelan cheerily shook hands with employees and urged them to give him a call “if there’s anything I can do ...

A divided three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the University of Washington violated a computer science professor’s First Amendment rights when it investigated and ...

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Try this quick experiment. Do a Google search for ‘Steve Jobs presentation slides.’ Hit images. You’ll find hundreds of photos from Jobs’ now-famous keynotes. Look closely at the slides and you’ll ...

Three decades ago, financial adviser Bill Bengen created a retirement principle called the 4% rule. It went viral. Now, the rule is getting an update. The 4% rule says you should plan to spend 4% of ...

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