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14:50 UK time, Tuesday, 25 October 2011
A look at the stories ranking highly on various news sites.
. What's not to love? That is the view of Guardian readers who have been flocking to their picture gallery of 21st annual Tompkins Square Halloween dog parade in New York. The article says it's the largest of its kind in the US, which implies there may be more of these fancy dress competitions. Dogs are dressed as the runaway bride or Don Draper from Mad Men. And they're the more conventional ones.
New York Times readers are finding out that those team . Daniel Kahneman used to test leadership skills for officer training in the Israeli army. He did this by getting groups to lug a log over a wall. Even though the results of training schools showed his predictions consistently failed he carried on doing the log test. All was not lost, as years later Kahneman formulated a theory about why people continue to make confident judgements despite the evidence. He uses this to explain why investors mess up. All from soldiers carrying trees.
And the Wall Street Journal's most read story is also on the theme of . But the article is on a mission to break another myth: that despite high unemployment, there is a skills shortage. Peter Cappelli says that the real problem is that employers are not prepared to either pay more or train people up. This leaves that classic Catch 22 situation: you can't get the job unless you already have it.
Americans are perfectly willing to eat cows, pigs, and chickens. So Slate readers are clicking on a story which asks . Unsatisfying, it doesn't come up with a definitive answer. But, as compensation, the article does introduce us to a new word for horse-eating: hippophagy.
