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10 Things I Wish I'd Known as a Student

Jennifer Kushell | Posted 10.14.2009 | Living

Read More: Success, College Students, Students, Life Lessons, Banning Technology in School, Back to School Advice, Banned Technology, School Stress, School Advice, Academic Bubble, Karma, Video Games, Living News

The most popular and highest achieving kids in school are not always the most successful in the real world. Success in the academic bubble does not translate to success in work and real life.

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Fisker Automotive Gets $529 Million Government Loan To Build Electric Cars

Wall Street Journal | JOSH MITCHELL and STEPHEN POWER | Posted 09.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Doe, Cars, Subsidies, Emissions, Mpg, Roadster, Nina, Loans, Karma, Electric Cars, Detroit, Environment, Fuel Standards, Finland, Al Gore, Department of Energy, Fisker Automotive, Global Warming, Tesla, Business News

A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Fi...

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The McDonald's "Mr. James" Ad Campaign and How We Don't Care About White People, Apparently

Disgrasian | Posted 09.26.2009 | Media

Read More: McDonald's Japan, McDonald's Advertising, Gaijin, Stereotypes, McDonald's Mr. James Nippon All-Stars Campaign, Negative Stereotypes, Xenophobia, Karma, Racism, McDonald's, Japan, Racial Stereotypes, Stepin Fetchit, Nerds, Mcdonalds, Media News

Oh dear. It seems that we've ruffled a few feathers while writing about stereotypes.

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Obama makes Multi-Racial Americans more Accepted

Francesca Biller-Safran | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

Read More: Nisei Generation, Hawaii, Democratic Convention, Michelle Obama, Purple Heart Batallion, Asian, Ethnicity, The Audacity of Hope, Multiracial, Multicultural, American, Kimono, Melting Pot, Race, Chuppah, Oy Veh, African-American, Bar Mitzvah, Shikseh, University High School, Japanese-Jew, Latino, Karma, Hwaii, Punahoe High School, 442nd Infantry, The Golden Gate Bridge, Woddy Allen, Knish, Hispanic American, Japanese-American, Politics News

As a Japanese-Jew, I have historically used self deprecating humor at my own expense as a way to explain and defend to others who I was and to feel ac...

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Unexpected Karmic Consequences

Matthew Weiner | Posted 06.03.2009 | Living

Read More: Dalai Lama, Buddhism, President Bush, Abortion, Conservative, Karma, Living News

Buddhism is deadly serious about nonviolence, because karma has serious consequences. Morality is never about a person's right to choose, but about understanding the consequences of ones actions.

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When Did Debit Cards Become #@*!ing Credit Cards?!

Cecilia Michelson | Posted 04.07.2009 | Business

Read More: Yoga, Bank Fees, Economy, Karma, Us Economic Crisis, Banking Crisis, Credit Cards, Debit Cards, Credit Card Industry, Business News

Now I see that perhaps banks didn't care to explain the terms very carefully to borrowers who perhaps weren't educated enough to do the research themselves.

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Lust, Hatred, and Ignorance

Brent Kessel | Posted 02.21.2009 | Living

Read More: Abacus Wealth Partners, It's Not About the Money, Brent Kessel, Dalai Lama, Wealth, Karma Yoga, Karma, Living News

A few days ago I was reading a book by the Dalai Lama. He recommended we check in several times a day to see which of our actions were being motivated by lust, hatred or ignorance.

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Tranquility Through Anger

Michael Sigman | Posted 01.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Meditation, Anger, Buddhism, Mindfulness, Spirituality, Happiness, Karma, Meditation Retreats, Living News

The agitated mind, if allowed to fully run its course without suppression of any thought or emotion, may simply exhaust itself and give up, revealing an underlying, more equanimous state.

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I Have A Dream

Susan Madrak | Posted 12.25.2008 | Living

Read More: Food, Community, Hunger, Poverty, Recession, Karma, Community Pot Lucks, Living News

For a couple of years now, I've been thinking about how to ground people in community through hard times (because I always knew hard times were coming.) One of the ideas I have is to have weekly community pot lucks.

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A Clean Karma Bath in the Muck of the Ganges (xvi)

Karin Badt | Posted 11.30.2008 | Living

Read More: Pooja, Purification Exercise, India, Women Travelers, Varanasi, Spirituality, Ganges, Karma, Living News

Only in India do people comment on the experience of getting there ("this was fresher," said Vivek) rather than the destination itself.

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Living with Meaning: What Are You Reflecting?

Alex Pattakos | Posted 11.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Happiness, Karma, The Inner Life, Meaning, Living With Meaning, Ubuntu, Viktor Frankl, Echo, elAlex Pattakos, Rationships, Living News

We've all heard the saying, "What goes around, comes around." Many of us would probably even add that this simple-sounding saying actually and accura...

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Creating Karma

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.14.2008 | Living

Read More: Obama, Mccain, Election, Politics, Karma, Evangelical Christians, Karmic Justice, William Ayers, Buddhism, Domestic Terrorist, Spirituality, Palin, Living News

John McCain and Sarah Palin have sunk to a new low. So where's John Lennon's instant karma when we need it most?

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Karma Comes For OJ; Bush Cheney Next? (Video)

Charles Karel Bouley | Posted 11.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Charles Karel Bouley, Karel, Kgo, Karma, George W. Bush, OJ Simpson, Knx, Dick Cheney, OJ Simpson Guilty, Politics News

On a night much like the one Nicole and Ronald might have found themselves, Karel rants about how OJ was finally served and Bush and Cheney should be next.

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Mastering the Art of Guilt-Free Giving

Lisa Earle McLeod | Posted 10.07.2008 | Living

Read More: Lisa Earle McLeod, John David Mann, Giving, Bob Burg, Happiness, Karma, The Giving Life, Triangle of Truth, Living News

Give 'til it hurts. Groan. Are you tired of being guilted into giving? Better load up on overpriced wrapping paper and spend Saturday working th...

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Flat tire? Chicagoans to the rescue!

Leslie Goldman | Posted 09.29.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Car, Strangers, Repair, Good Samaritans, Chicago, Karma, Boot, Flat Tire, Kindness, Aaa, Ticket, Chicago News

I got out, loaded up with shirts and dresses, and confronted what was possibly the deadest dead tire ever. My heart sank. But then the kindheartedness that defines the Midwest started peeking out from every corner and I was saved by my city.

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What Are You Thinking?

Kay Goldstein | Posted 09.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Finding Happiness in an Uncertain World, Segment Intending, Tibetan Buddhism, Mindfulness, Karma, Meditation, David Michie, Spiritual Path, Spirituality, Buddhism for Busy People, Living News

For those of us attempting to live in the world in a more conscious way, there can never be enough reminders, for we humans are such forgetful creatures.

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Period Panties Protest

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.17.2008 | Living

Read More: Menstruation, Rape, Sharon Stone, Victoria's Secret, Underpants, Crimes Against Women, Panties for Peace, Thailand, Myanmar, Lindsay Logan, Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, Junta, Period, Underwear, Burma, Sex Slaves, Karma, Protests, Upskirting, Women's Underwear, Period Panties, Cyclones, China, Ralph Lauren, Political Protest, Panties, The Giving Life, Living News

I always knew my undies were powerful. In college someone went to the trouble of breaking into my apartment to steal them. (Side story: the perp wa...

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New Dreams Or Old Karma: What Will You Create In 2008?

Stacey Lawson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Sprituality, The Inner Life, Conscious Creation, Karma, Living News

In one of my earlier posts, I wrote about my initial encounter with a revered Indian Swami who offered to teach me the yogic secrets of conscious crea...

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