Otherwise, channel your energy into a world-class email or note that you send within one day of the interview.

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Skeptics of beginners' abilities should note that students in a Hatchery class won a recent hackathon, or product-building competition, in a battle against full-time developers.

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And corporate travel, with its associations of plush hotels, first-class flights and exotic destinations, can strike an inappropriate note.

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The tiny machine joins Dell's Inspiron Mini 9, the Asus Eee PC 900, the HP Mini-Note 2133 and the Intel Classmate PC among the new class of machines offering cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.

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We expect one or more lawsuits to be filed over this matter, with a class-action suit likely, though (and be sure to note this is not legal advice) most owners would be better served accepting the proposed gift-card settlement than becoming involved in a long-term suit that might ultimately prove to be of little value.

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One big earlier study called CLASS "was not designed for formal assessment of cardiovascular events, " they note.

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Note: Those are jobs that traditionally served as entry points to the middle class.

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Second in a three-part series on the loss of middle-class jobs in the wake of the Great Recession, and the role of technology.

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Let me also note that this question from Alex in Ohio happens to be about the same topic that the Middle Class Task Force is focusing on this month.

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