Kissing Your Socks Goodbye

Penelope Green, The New York Times, October 22, 2014 Marie Kondo, author of “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” shares her advice on home organization, which this article’s author uses to...

Yahoo profit soars following the Alibaba IPO

James O’Toole, CNN Money, October 22, 2014 Yahoo can’t hide behind Alibaba anymore. The Web giant’s profit soared in the third quarter, after earning $6.3 billion from selling part of its stake in Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce giant. Alibaba...

What if Age Is Nothing but a Mind-Set?

Bruce Grierson, The New York Times, October 22, 2014 Psychologist Ellen Langer, who has written or co-written more than 200 studies, imagines a day when blame isn’t the first thing people reach for when things go awry. Instead, we will simply bring to bear...

Bringing parents to the workplace

Jena McGregor, The Washington Post, October 22, 2014 Now that the oldest millennials have been in the workplace for a number of years, several companies are starting to embrace employees’ parents as an asset rather than a hindrance, launching programs such...

Woodward and Bernstein remember Ben Bradlee

Katie Couric, Yahoo! News, October 21, 2014 Ben Bradlee will forever be linked to Watergate. The dynamic newspaper man steered The Washington Post through its historic coverage of the most notorious political scandal in U.S. history. “It was the unraveling, the...

Ben Bradlee dies

Dylan Byers and Hadas Gold, Politico, October 21, 2014 Benjamin C. Bradlee, a Massachusetts paperboy in his youth who became the longtime editor of The Washington Post, where he inspired a legion of reporters and led the paper’s coverage of the Watergate...