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Able to unplug from work while you’re on vacation? (Ben Patterson)


Ben Patterson – Fighting the urge to check your work e-mail while you’re on holiday doesn’t exactly qualify as the worst problem in the world; after all, it’s pretty nice to have a job at all in this tough economy, right? Then again, the pressure to hang onto a job seems to be driving more and more connected workers to stay plugged in even while they’re trying to tune out.

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NC vacation island to be cleared as Earl nears (AP)


This image provided by NASA shows Hurricane Earl, lower right, acquired at 1:00 a.m. EDT Wednesday Sept. 1, 2010. At 11 p.m. EDT Tuesday the center of Hurricane Earl was located about 910 miles south-southeast of Wilmington N.C. The Category 4 hurricane  was moving northwest at 15 mph with maximum sustained winds of 135 mph. (AP Photo/NASA)AP – Tourists on a North Carolina vacation destination island were ordered to board the ferries and head for the mainland Wednesday and more evacuations could be on the way as powerful Hurricane Earl threatened to sideswipe the East Coast.


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