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Wednesday, July 25, 2007

by Jordan Fabian last modified Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Unionized carpenters have a new, more efficient way to seek better wages: They are hiring the homeless to picket for them while they continue to work. . .Illinois has a plan for high school dropouts: revoke their driver's licenses, so they can't get to work. . .Could a new approach to search rival Google? Book and author events are proliferating in the workplace. . Steven Pinker stands up for "dangerous ideas". . .A referee is caught up in an NBA point shaving scandal. Economist Justin Wolfers has already measured the chances of corruption in the college game. . .

Unionized carpenters have a new, more efficient way to seek better wages: They are hiring the homeless to picket for them while they continue to work. . .

Illinois has a plan for high school dropouts: revoke their driver's licenses, so they can't get to work. . .

Could a new approach to search rival Google?

Book and author events are proliferating in the workplace. . .

Steven Pinker stands up for "dangerous ideas". . .

A referee is caught up in an NBA point shaving scandal. Economist Justin Wolfers has already measured the chances of corruption in the college game. . .

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