Confronted with the problem of too many jobs and not enough empty beds, North Dakota embraced man camps. But now officials are trying to slow things down.

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Google on Wednesday released and then pulled back its Gmail app for the Apple store with a no-nonsense tweet on its Gmail Twitter account: “The iOS app we launched today contained a bug with notifications. We have pulled the app to fix the problem. Sorry we messed up.” The app was up on the store for about an hour. It immediately prompted complaints from early adopters on Google+, Facebook and Twitter. Read full article > >

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Adapted from a recent online discussion. Dear Carolyn:I am 1 1 / 2 years into a relationship and I have lost my libido. I have gone from wanting sex about three times a week to about once every two weeks. I’m young, I still like my boyfriend and I still find him attractive, but I find myself more interested in falling asleep than any other bedroom activity. Of course, he is still interested in having sex and has started to notice my indifference. I’ve been giving in to keep him happy, but I rarely really enjoy it. I think that’s been making the problem worse. I’m afraid this will ruin my relationship, but I have no idea how to fix it. Read full article > >

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The federal personnel chief said Thursday he “screwed up” the problem-filled launch of the government’s new job board and apologized “to all the applicants who’ve had trouble” finding and applying for jobs for more than three weeks. “I screwed up,” John Berry said at a briefing on USAJobs, the Web site for federal work the government took over from Monster.com 18 months ago. Read full article > >

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OPM chief: ‘We messed up’ on USAJobs site

The battle for Surt underscores the problem Libya’s weak transitional government faces as it tries to stitch together a country divided by the war.

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Battle for Surt Threatens Libya’s Healing Process

Gangs are back on the agenda with a US supercop visiting for an international conference. But just how bad is the problem in the UK?

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How big a problem are gangs in the UK?

As the Occupy Wall Street demonstrators moved to Washington on Thursday and swarmed outside the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, President Obama was at the other end of Lafayette Square trying to align himself with the swelling protest movement. “I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel, that we had the biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression, huge collateral damage all throughout the country, all across Main Street, and yet you’re still seeing some of the same folks who acted irresponsibly trying to fight efforts to crack down on abusive practices that got us into this problem in the first place,” the president said at a news conference in the East Room. Read full article > >

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For a White House often criticized for not communicating a strong and clear message to the public, Team Obama rallied to trash Ron Suskind’s new book , “Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President.” In his defense, Suskind has said that the White House knew everything that was in his book before it even hit the printing presses. But that was exactly his problem. White House officials got a head start in attacking, and neither Suskind nor a time-crunched news media were able to catch up. Read full article > >

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Critics slammed Ron Suskind’s ‘Confidence Men.’ But how closely did did they read it?

When a Georgia native named Freddie settles down on a chair near the wrought ironwork of a Southern veranda, carefully adjusting the rings on his fingers as he recalls his turbulent childhood, he likely doesn’t realize the metaphorical aptness of his location. Freddie, one of the characters in “Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South,” E. Patrick Johnson’s earnest, studiously poignant, humor-leavened solo show, suffered vicious bullying as a youngster — at least he did until (as he relates with a hint of glee) he solved the problem by using a razor blade on one of his tormentors. Like the iron that has gone into the veranda’s filigreed railings, in other words, Freddie has endured great stresses and emerged from them, resilient and imposing. Read full article > >

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‘Sweet Tea’ infused with colorful personalities

The Republican establishment is said to have grave qualms about Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s presidential campaign. Here’s the problem: There is no Republican establishment. It squandered its authority by building up the Tea Party’s brigades and then fearing them too much to do anything to check their power. Read full article > >

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The GOP establishment’s Rick Perry problem

WHEN QUIZZED on the problem of illegal immigration at their debate the other night, the Republican presidential hopefuls were by turns vague, evasive, confused, contradictory and — in the notable case of Rep. Ron Paul of Texas, who opposes a border fence because it might prevent law-abiding Americans from withdrawing their savings and fleeing to Mexico in a crisis — harebrained. Read full article > >

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“Let’s pass trade deals to level the playing field for our businesses. . . . These are common-sense ideas — ideas that have been supported by both Democrats and Republicans. The only thing holding them back is politics. The only thing preventing us from passing these bills is the refusal by some in Congress to put country ahead of party. That’s the problem right now. That’s what’s holding this country back. That’s what we have to change.” — President Obama, Aug. 20, 2011 Read full article > >

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The Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump is mired in inertia. The project dates back three decades and has not solved the problem of nuclear waste. Read full article > >

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Yucca Mountain: A waste of a nuclear dump

The Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste dump is mired in inertia. The project dates back three decades and has not solved the problem of nuclear waste. Read full article > >

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As premieres go, it wasn’t exactly promising. When Leonard Bernstein unleashed his sprawling Third Symphony — titled “Kaddish” — on the American public in January 1964, the critics practically trampled one another to get in the first jabs. It wasn’t Bernstein’s music that drew the ridicule — it was the cringe-inducing narration he had written, around which the symphony revolves. A Kaddish is a Jewish prayer associated with mourning, and Bernstein had dedicated the piece to John F. Kennedy, assassinated the previous November. Bernstein tried to grapple with huge spiritual issues in the work, angrily confronting God and demanding an answer to the problem of evil in the world. “A lava-flow of cliches,” judged one critic. Read full article > >

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Samuel Pisar’s ‘Kaddish’: A warning to a world out of control