Coming Soon? Brace for 80% Less Salary or $2-a-Day Pay

She's the world's wealthiest woman you've never heard of and she's saying something you probably wish you hadn't: "Gina Rinehart, world's richest woman, makes case for $2-a-day pay",the Los Angeles Times reports. The Australian mining heiress has a problem. The cost of running a mining operation in Australia cannot compete with Africans willing to work …

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High Contrast: Thomas Kinkade’s Art, Life & Controversy

There is something attractive about defrocking a figure of faith-and-family-values virtue, particularly one of great commercial success who has endeared himself to an endangered minority: the American middle class. The late Thomas Kinkade, who died of unnamed causes Friday, made an easy target. The self-anointed "painter of light" specialized in idealized scenes hearkening to a more …

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Apple, America and the ‘China Problem’

The secret is out: Apple has a worm inching its way through its corporate flesh. January was a tough month on the Cupertino, California company venerated for its innovation and vision. The controversy emerged when an Apple contractor in China, a manufacturing facility known as Foxconn where many brand-name electronics are assembled largely by hand, …

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