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Attractive women who attach a photo to their CV are less likely to get an interview than their plainer rivals or those who do not send in a picture, research reveals today.

It blames young, single and ‘jealous’ women in personnel departments who screen which jobseekers should be invited in.

But in an example of the ‘double standards’ that the researchers said these staff employed, attractive men who attach a photograph are more likely to get an interview than plain ones.

Staff in personnel departments are overwhelmingly female, typically single and aged 29 on average, the researchers found.

From Examiner.com:

During the 2010 election the Republican literally pledged to change the way Washington works by citing the constitutional authority for every piece of legislation within the bill itself.  To their credit, the Republicans then passed a set of rules which requires the House to cite the constitutional authority for every bill they pass within the bill.  However, H.R. 358 is now the second bill which has arguably not met the Republicans’ own pledge.

From Politifact (Link):

To check on the promise, PolitiFact staffers examined dozens of constitutional justifications. We found that the statements vary in content, largely because Republican leaders did not specify a standardized format when they enacted the rule. Some are brief, such as the rationale of Rep. Steve Cohen, D-Tenn., for H.R. 666, a bill that would provide states with funding to update their systems for producing birth and death certificates and reporting on fetal deaths. Cohen simply wrote that "Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8, Clauses 1, 3, and 18 of the Constitution." Others provide more detail, such as the statement by Rep. Walter Jones, R-N.C., for H.R. 24, which proposes that the Department of the Navy be renamed the Department of the Navy and Marine Corps. Jones wrote that "the constitutional authority of Congress to enact this legislation is provided by Article 1, section 8 of the United States Constitution (clauses 12, 13, 14, and 16), which grants Congress the power to raise and support an Army; to provide and maintain a Navy; to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces; and to provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the militia."

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Rep. Anthony Weiner, D-N.Y., objected to Pitts' bill during a Feb. 11, 2011, hearing by the Energy and Commerce Committee, arguing that Pitts' statement doesn't point to a specific article, section or clause of the Constitution.

This was actually posted up by good.is about 2 weeks before the earthquake that hit Japan.

"How many more American citizens are going to have to die? … Juarez is reported to be the most dangerous city in America."

- Gov. Rick Perry of Texas (Source: Politico)

The problem is Juarez is in Mexico, not America. Oopsie.

KTSM: Give anyone in Texas a map, and they'll show you where El Paso and Juarez are. Tonight, we're not sure that includes Governor Rick Perry.

For the second time, he's confused the two cities, even calling Juarez the most dangerous city in America.

"I think it's projecting a very negative image, I think he's misleading a lot of people who aren't familiar with El Paso," said Roni Cordova.

Amid much wrangling over how to allocate funds out of an increasingly out-of-control federal budget, the editors and writers at eight of the TechMediaNetwork’s sites sought the advice of dozens of researchers, technologists, futurists, analysts and business owners in fields ranging from space and Earth science to health and technological innovation.

We asked one simple question:

If you could ask President Obama and Congress to do one thing related to your field that would be for the good economy and the country, what would it be and why?

The insightful answers are presented in six linked articles on SPACE.com, LiveScience, TechNewsDaily, MyHealthNewsDaily, SecurityNewsDaily, and BusinessNewsDaily, with reporting also provided by the staffs of OurAmazingPlanet and InnovationNewsDaily.

The respondents, ranging from actor Wayne Rogers to tech entrepreneur and philanthropist Esther Dyson, called for investment in science and technology and responsible regulation, but also asked the government to give researchers and businesses the freedom they need to do their work.

At LiveScience, we asked respondents to focus their answers on science. Here are their replies:

Tibet’s living Buddhas have been banned from reincarnation without permission from China’s atheist leaders. The ban is included in new rules intended to assert Beijing’s authority over Tibet’s restive and deeply Buddhist people.

“The so-called reincarnated living Buddha without government approval is illegal and invalid,” according to the order, which comes into effect on September 1.

The 14-part regulation issued by the State Administration for Religious Affairs is aimed at limiting the influence of Tibet’s exiled god-king, the Dalai Lama, and at preventing the re-incarnation of the 72-year-old monk without approval from Beijing.

The correlation between income level and economic ideology is weak (we have graphs in Red State, Blue State making this point), but it’s not zero.

Eleven charts that explain everything that's wrong with America.