May 2019

Google’s Shadow Work Force: Temps Who Outnumber Full-Time Employees

The reliance on temporary help has generated more controversy inside Google than it has at other big tech outfits, but the practice is common in Silicon Valley. Contingent labor accounts for 40 to 50 percent of the workers at most technology firms, according to estimates by OnContracting, a site that helps people find tech contracting

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We Are Middlesbrough: Pregnant teenagers tell their story

Media playback is unsupported on your device Media captionWe Are Middlesbrough: Pregnant teenagers tell their story Middlesbrough has the highest rate of teenage pregnancy in England and Wales. But one 16-year-old from the town says getting pregnant saved her life. Robyn used to “get mortal” (drunk) and “end up at random parties”. But when she

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Memories of Massacres Were Long Suppressed Here. Tourists Now Retrace the Atrocities.

BUKCHON, South Korea — The soldiers descended upon the village, torching its homes and corralling residents into a schoolyard. After screening out relatives of military members and the police from the gathered crowd, the soldiers divided those remaining — men, women and children — into groups of 30 to 50, and dragged them away. When

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