We're Changing the Way We Conduct Relationships

Mark Vernon is a writer and honorary research fellow at Birkbeck College in London. He is the author of the new book The Meaning of Friendship.

Mr. Vernon says that we are “changing the way we conduct relationships.”

Mr Vernon:

Face-to-face chatting is giving way to texting and messaging; people even prefer these electronic exchanges to, for instance,

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Poor Savings Habits May Keep Large Number of Baby Boomers in the Job Market

 The roughly 76 million U.S. baby boomers born between 1946 and 1964 are entering their retirement years.

The ranks of boomers expecting to kick back and retire soon are shrinking fast. A lifetime of poor savings habits – coupled with the devastating impact on retirement portfolios of two bear markets in eight years – have convinced

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Best Advice for Unemployed: Network and Stay Physically Fit

Some of the best career advice has always been to stay networked. One reason is so that if you were forced to find a job you would have access to people that could help you.

Rich Karlgaard, publisher of Forbes magazine, now offers that staying physically fit is equally as important to the unemployed:

Among those hurt

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