The Water Cooler

November 8th, 2011

This Week’s Topics…

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    Texting
    In recent years, sending text messages has become increasingly popular -- and it's not…
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    Career
    One woman describes how she walked away from the pressures, paycheck and prestige of jobs…
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    Babies
    In the Philippines, newborn Danica May Camacho was greeted with cheers and an explosion…
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    Marriage
    In this month's The Atlantic magazine, Kate Bolick argues that it's time "to acknowledge…
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    Halloween
    For Halloween, Jimmy Kimmel issued a YouTube Challenge to parents... he told them to…
Texting

Does Texting Turn Everyone Back Into Teenagers?

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by Editorial Staff
In recent years, sending text messages has become increasingly popular -- and it's not just kids who are texting.

A growing number of adults are sending texts to communicate, and they are discovering what teenagers have long known: "Texting lends itself particularly well to manipulative (or, in other words, juvenile) behavior."

In the WSJ, Elizabeth Bernstein explains how texting is often used for serious power plays.

Career

Survey: More Professional Women Choosing Time Over Money

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by Ruth Malhotra
One woman describes how she walked away from the pressures, paycheck and prestige of jobs she called "meaningful and important" earlier this year and refuses to return, no matter how many offers come her way.

"I will never go back to the corporate world," she says. "I want to own my life."

A new survey shows she's not alone.

Babies

World’s 7 Billionth Baby Born

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by Jill Joiner
In the Philippines, newborn Danica May Camacho was greeted with cheers and an explosion of photographers’ flashbulbs at Manila’s Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital. She arrived two minutes before midnight Sunday at 5 pounds, 8 ounces and was declared by the United Nations to be the world’s 7 billionth citizen.

However, other countries around the world proclaimed their newborn infants had earned the milestone.

Marriage

Are the 'Single Ladies' Giving Up on Marriage?

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by Ruth Malhotra
In this month's The Atlantic magazine, Kate Bolick argues that it's time "to acknowledge the end of 'traditional' marriage as society's highest ideal."

But should we give up on an ideal just because it hasn't worked out for us personally?

Jennifer Marshall suggests, "Far from giving up on marriage, the single ladies - a la Beyonce - are looking for a man to 'put a ring on it.'"

Halloween

YouTube Challenge: I Told My Kids I Ate All Their Halloween Candy

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by Editorial Staff
For Halloween, Jimmy Kimmel issued a YouTube Challenge to parents... he told them to trick their kids by telling them they ate up all the candy, and parents got some pretty entertaining reactions!

Kimmel said he didn't expect so many tears... it's pretty hilarious!

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