Daily Archives: July 11, 2012

Asian Americans speed past Latinos in US growth

July 11, 2012 – 7:55 am

by Amber Davis WHAT’S HAPPENING Asian immigrants account for the largest number of new arrivals to the States, helping Asian Americans surpass Latinos as the country’s fastest growing racial/ethnic group. According to a Pew Research Center report, about 36% of US immigrants arrived from Asian countries in 2010, compared to 31% from Latin America (PewSocialTrends.org, […]

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Room for Art: Stockholm hotel accepts artistic payment

July 11, 2012 – 7:50 am

by Krisha Kinnersley WHAT’S HAPPENING Stockholm’s Clarion Hotel is doing away with the notion of the starving artist by accepting artwork as payment for hotel rooms (Hg2Magazine.com, 12 June 2012). In order to qualify for the deal, artists simply need to submit any signed piece of artwork which fits on an A4 sheet of paper, […]

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Brains! CDC rolls out the Office of Zombie Preparedness

July 11, 2012 – 7:44 am

by Cree McCree WHAT’S HAPPENING Who says that the CDC doesn’t have a sense of humor? With flesh-eaters grabbing headlines and The Walking Dead stalking TV fans, the oft-stodgy government agency has opened an Office of Zombie Preparedness, complete with lurid posters and a graphic novella. It began as a tongue-in-cheek response to wild rumors […]

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