In today’s job market you will need every competitive edge you can muster — good luck finding a job looking like a freak.
Category: Columns
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Winter weather brings Chinese gooseberry to the table
The sweet, tart and anything but ordinary California-grown kiwifruit — also known as a Chinese gooseberry — comes into season early November having captured the very light of the golden California summer sun.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Taking the fun out of obesity
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors made a bad decision — not by manipulating children, but by assuming that volition is less important than behavior.
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Homesickness hits hard freshman year
It’s week eight and our resident freshman realizes she’s not at home anymore.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Lessons about the Electoral College
Every four years we have a presidential election, and every presidential election at least one person complains bitterly about that barbaric anachronism, the Electoral College. And they’re always wrong.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Anti-Bucket List: questions to live without
Think about all the moments you want to share with a special someone. Now forget those, and think about all the moments you never want to remember with that other someone.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
America built on the freedom to be equal
The Founding Fathers established America on two vital, yet often conflicting, principles: liberty and equality.
Posted inColumns, Features
Fennel incorporates vegetables with sweetness
I know what you are thinking — why risk putting a vegetable in cookies? But I say have faith in the mighty fennel, as it is no ordinary vegetable.
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The ins and outs of drug testing in the workplace
With public sector employment expanding exponentially, and so much of the private sector dependent upon contracting work with the state and federal government, workplace drug testing is becoming more common.
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Freshman loses mind after losing key
Oh no! Sydney Ray lost her key yet again! Her friends are waiting and her frustration is rising — will everything turn out alright?
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Whitman’s spending can’t buy my vote
With election less than a week away, who will gain the vote from the left side — Brown or Whitman?