reuters:

Marco Avila, a reporter in Sonora, Mexico was buried over the weekend after being found in a black garbage bag. 

He’s the sixth current or former journalist killed in Mexico in less than a month. Considering the number of gruesome atrocities committed by the country’s drug cartels (the latest being the 49 decapitated, hand-less, foot-less bodies found on the side of a highway), it makes sense that the people covering the news in these areas have become targets too. 

[Photo: REUTERS/Stringer]

THE ATLANTIC WIRE: Being a journalist in Mexico can be deadly

The Hilltop Metro Editor, Spotlight reporter, Tom Burrell Brainwash Resolution Fellow, 18 credit hours, part-time employee, possible internship. Not to mention my leadership position in my organizations. Maybe senior year won’t be so chill as I expected. 

• I started a water diet. [ Meaning I will only drink water for the next two weeks]
• I worked out two days this week and I will be going to the gym on Friday and Sunday morning. 
• I continued to my daily routine of walking 1.5 mile to work
• I found a doctor! 

The last one is the most important one to me because I’ve been searching for a while. 

Visit Women Health’s Mag to see what you can do before the week is over. 

Am I the only person who is natural who doesn’t really care? 

hbcudigest:

The Washington Times today reports that a Howard University Hospital employee has been charged with selling the personal information of hospital patients for more than a year. The charges are separate from an ongoing investigation of a stolen laptop containing social security…

This weekend while me and a friend sat in a yogurt shop, we discussed our love lives, or in my case, the lack of. I’ve been single for the past three years and I’m perfectly content with it. But to her me being content with being single for so long is awkward. To her, at this age I should desire a companion, someone to talk to, cuddle with, all that other stuff people in relationships do. However, having a boyfriend is not a necessity in my life and I don’t feel like this a void missing in my life that I need to fill. I’m not single because I’m avoiding relationships or the dating scene, I’m single because God hasn’t placed anyone in my life yet and I’m okay with it. Sure it would be nice to have someone but I’m alone, not lonely. I don’t think my status is awkward, I think its just fine.  The thought of settling however, is very unsettling. 

jonquilrose:

Reading.

Watching it.

If I go a day without checking WSJ and NYT I feel strange.

My parents hate watching local news with me because I flip through all the channels to compare the top stories.

I think I have a problem. 

If you have a problem then so do I. NYT is my homepage and I can’t miss the 11 o’ clock news, if I do I cant sleep. 

theatlantic:

Work Is Work: Why Free Internships Are Immoral

The Labor Department’s guidelines require that internships must resemble an education rather than a job; that interns cannot work in the place of paid employees; that their their work not be of “immediate benefit” to an employer. If you’ve ever had an unpaid internship, you know that these rules are flouted more routinely than speed limits. But rather than hold up these rules as quixotic laws begging to be violated and laughed at, ask yourself three questions:

1. Is there no overlap between paid and unpaid work at your company?
2. Can you deny that unpaid internships deny to low-income students an experience that many employers consider mandatory?
3. Would a minimum wage salary paid to a handful of students compromise your company’s financial position? 

I cannot imagine an honest person with passing knowledge of unpaid internships in America answering any of those three questions “yes.”

Work is work, no matter who does it. It ought to be paid.

Read more. [Image: Reuters]

foodaday:

Happy National Buttermilk Biscuit Day (May 14).

I instantly got hungry.