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A year after Haiti's catastrophic quake, Port-au-Prince is still a ruin. But the views from high-end spots like the Hotel Oloffson are picture perfect, and with armies of aid workers still needing to bed down, business at hotels left intact is booming.

News about the economy remains mixed. Unemployment went up to 9.9% in April but employers added 290,000 jobs. Job postings in health care dipped by 5% between April 2009 and April 2010 but increased in the 11 other industries that job search engine Indeed.com tracks, including education. Welcome...

NPR has told its journalists to stop using the terms "pro-choice" and "pro-life" when covering the abortion debate. It's a futile attempt at neutrality that will only result in wordy, tortured language. Or is that "enhanced-interrogated language"?

With more than 8,000 buyouts and layoffs at newspapers throughout the country so far this year, and more than 15,000 newspaper jobs lost last year, there are a lot more freelance writers and editors on the market. I'm one of them.To help them better deal with the new marketplace, unions that are...