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702/Cape Talk's Redi Tlhabi speaks to researcher at the Centre for Social Development in Africa, Zoheb Kahn, about avenues that both prospective employers and jobseekers should consider to lower the burden of the high cost of being a jobseeker.

Tue Jul 19 2016

Is it possible to curtail the high cost of jobseeking in South Africa?

The Money Show’s Bruce Whitfield interviews Ernest du Toit, Chairperson of the Direct Selling Association of South Africa.

Why direct selling in South Africa is booming (despite the economy)

The state’s GOP leadership tried to make the state more business-friendly. Now residents are saying their water isn’t safe to drink.

Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/north-carolina-a-preview-of-life-under-a-trump-weakened-epa/521211/

The Saga of North Carolina’s Contaminated Water - The Atlantic - Alana Semuels

The controversial cityhood movement recently created an unlikely political alliance and redrew the lines of metro Atlanta. Meet the city’s newest neighbors.

Read text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/04/here-comes-the-neighborhood/523884/

Here Comes the Neighborhood - The Atlantic - Sam Rosen

In three short months, Jaelyn Young and Muhammad Dakhlalla found themselves at the center of America’s debate over radicalization.
Read the text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/05/mississippi-young-dakhlalla/524751/

The Mississippi College Students Who Tried to Join ISIS - The Atlantic - Emma Green

Trainings and workshops geared toward eliminating people’s hidden prejudices are all the rage—but most don’t work. Now the psychologist who made the case for "implicit bias" wants to cure it.
Read text version here: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/1857/11/unconscious-bias-discrimination-end/525405/

Is This How Discrimination Ends? - The Atlantic - Jessica Nordell

In order to survive, Gallaudet University has to blend a diverse student body from very different backgrounds: deaf culture and hearing culture. Can football players show the school how?

Full text edition here: https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/05/americas-deaf-team-tackles-identity-politics/525945/

'America's Deaf Team' Tackles Identity Politics - The Atlantic - Matthew Davis

A hotly contested, supposedly ancient manuscript suggests Christ was married. But believing its origin story—a real-life Da Vinci Code, involving a Harvard professor, a onetime Florida pornographer, and an escape from East Germany—requires a big leap of faith.

The Unbelievable Tale of Jesus' Wife - The Atlantic - Ariel Sabar

At many schools, the rules intended to protect victims of sexual assault mean students have lost their right to due process—and an accusation of wrongdoing can derail a person’s entire college education. 

This is the first story in a three-part series examining how the rules governing sexual-assault adjudication have changed in recent years, and why some of those changes are problematic. Listen to the second installment here: https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/the-bad-science-behind-campus-response-to-sexual-assault-the-atlantic-emily-yoffe
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The Uncomfortable Truth About Campus Rape Policy  - The Atlantic - Emily Yoffe

Assertions about how trauma physiologically impedes the ability to resist or coherently remember assault have greatly undermined defense against assault allegations. But science offers little support for these claims.

This is the second story in a three-part series examining how the rules governing sexual-assault adjudication have changed in recent years, and why some of those changes are problematic. Listen to the first installment here: https://soundcloud.com/user-154380542/the-uncomfortable-truth-about-campus-rape-policy-the-atlantic-emily-yoffe

The Bad Science Behind Campus Response to Sexual Assault - The Atlantic - Emily Yoffe

Girls in the Middle East do better than boys in school by a bigger margin than almost anywhere else in the world. A case study in motivation, mixed messages, and the condition of boys everywhere.