For long-unemployed, hiring bias rears its head Few job seekers who fail to get an interview know the reason, but Michelle Chesney-Offutt said a recruiter told her why she lost the chance to pitch for an information technology position.
NFL bounty scandal: Players debate whether it should have stayed in locker room The debate around the New Orleans Saintsâ pay-for-performance system initially centered around the prevalence of such programs and their propriety within the NFL. But the NFLâs punishments of the team revealed something else: a discord among current and former players not only over the bounty program and the leagueâs response but in the manner in […]
Examining U.S. “Torture Years” In A Theatre, Not A Courtroom When the U.S. was accused of torturing suspected terrorists after the Sept. 11 attacks, several Boston lawyers expressed their outrage by representing Guantanamo Bay detainees. But one longtime local civil rights attorney took a very different approach.
Global Weirding: One Scientific Explanation Behind Boston’s Warm Weather Unless youâve been living under a freezing cold AC-equipped rock for the past week, youâve undoubtedly noticed the unusually warm spring temperatures gracing Boston. And while weâre all loving the sunshine, the fact that itâs going to be 80 degrees today may be a little unnerving for those that are worried about an apocaletptic, Mayan-predicted, […]
PharmaManufacturing.com Think You Can Teach? Tips on Moving from Pharma to Academia I made the switch from industry in 2007, having been at Pfizer, and itâs too early to decide if itâs been successful or not. I started out at BU in a research faculty position doing hit follow-up med chem and providing med chem and synthesis support to several investigators at the med school, and was […]
Bloomberg Businessweek Mass. 2011 economy grew slower than first thought Northeastern University economist Alan Clayton-Matthews says because there is a seven-month lag in reporting job census figures, the 2011 numbers are almost certain to undergo more revisions.
France 24 French serial shooter will “see himself as the victim” “Cold, cruel and insensitive”, was how France’s Interior Minister Claude Gueant described the killer responsible for the horrific murder of three children and a teacher at a Jewish school in Toulouse in the aftermath of the killings.
Boston’s largest condo goes smoke-free In a sign of the growing reach of public health and antitobacco forces, Boston’s largest condominium complex has voted to go smoke free.
Saudi Arabia May Include Women on Its Olympic Team The Summer Olympics in London could be a watershed event for international sports as every participating nation is expected to field at least one female athlete, including three Muslim countries â Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei â that have previously sent only male competitors.
Fox 25 Jack Levin discusses body burning following discovery of burned body in NH A gruesome discovery in Atkinson, New Hampshire has left many unanswered questions. The burned body of an adult male was found on Monday night and now many people are wondering who would do such a thing? Criminologist Jack Levin visited FOX 25 to discuss the burning of bodies.
Stockton’s Poor Mired In Violence After Police Cuts, Recession Last year, Pablo Cano put to rest 12 murder victims, the most he’s handled in four decades as an undertaker in this troubled city. Many of the dead were still in their teens.
Supreme Court to review juvenile injustice Tomorrow morning, the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in two cases, Jackson v. Hobbs and Miller v. Alabama, challenging the controversial practice of sentencing juvenile offenders to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole.