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Monday, May 18, 2009 |
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ON BEING A WORKING STUDENT |
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Wanted: tuition fee |
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By Maria Katherine A. Bautista and Anne Rose O. Gamboa, Special to The Manila Times
Teenagers today tend to live life on the fast
lane. The “what you see is what you get” (or more accurately
“what is marketed to me is what I want to buy”) consumerist
mentality of instant gratification that has overtaken today’s
youth has put even more burden on those who actually earn their
money—the parents.
“You’ll never know the value and worth of
money until you’re the one working for it,” an advise often
dismissed by many youths as guilt-inducing trite yet true lines
often spoken by parents. But there are youth who know exactly what
they are talking about.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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SKEPTIC
TANK
By Tim Tayag
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You Tube muted my
video
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Before you upload that homemade goofy music video of yours
lip-syncing to your favorite Beyonce song on YouTube, you better
think twice because you might just become a victim of this stupid
copyright law that’s being implemented on the website.
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FAN
GIRL
By Karen Kunawicz
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Catching sci-fi fever
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It’s a great time to be a science fiction fan in these shores. The
new Star Trek movie is still being talked about and enjoyed by new
and old fans (some of which have predictably made repeated trips to
the cinema).
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More than just a perk-me-upper
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Imbibe tradition with coffee
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It’s more than just a jolt of caffeine, to get you through your
working hours or a healthy dose of antioxidants to be safe against
premature aging and cancer. Drinking coffee—be it plain old barako,
instant mixes or fancy latte macchiatos...
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Daydreamers might solve problems faster—study
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VANCOUVER, Canada: Contrary to common opinion, daydreaming is not
slacking off because when the brain wanders it is working even
harder to solve problems, new research has shown.
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New web tool WolframAlpha launches test run
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Google rules the roost when it comes to Internet
search and has easily brushed aside efforts by Yahoo!, Microsoft and
others to knock it off its perch.
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Facebook users hooked in
new ‘phishing’ scam
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: Facebook on Friday was blocking links to bogus
websites set up to look like the home page of the popular social
network in a “phishing” attack by hackers.
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PEOPLE
By Bob Garon
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Born bad to the bone
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I have spent most of my life working with troubled young people. I
have counseled them, treated them in rehabilitation centers and
watched them go through all kinds of difficulties in their efforts
to get their lives together.
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