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This screen shot released by Facebook shows the new gender option screen. Facebook is adding a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them. Facebook said the changes being rolled out Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014, for the company’s 159 million monthly users in the U.S. are aimed at giving gender nonconforming people the opportunity to be transparent about who they really are, whether that’s androgynous, bi-gender, intersex, gender fluid or transsexual.
New gender options available for Facebook users
MENLO PARK, Calif. — You don't have to be just male or female on Facebook anymore. The social media giant is adding a customizable option with about 50 different terms people can use to identify their gender as well as three preferred pronoun choices: him, her or them. Facebook said the changes, sha...
Closing to cut 125 jobs in Jonesboro
StarTek Inc. will close its call center in Jonesboro for the second time in two years, eliminating 125 jobs, so it can consolidate operations into a new, larger operation in Myrtle Beach, S.C.
Texas, others launch incentive wars to get SpaceX’s rocket pad
In a glass-walled conference room at the California headquarters of Space Exploration Technologies, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk told Texas officials he was interested in building the world’s first commercial rocket launchpad in their state — if the state could compete.
Deal floated to resume canal job
Panama Canal Administrator Jorge Quijano said Wednesday that a tentative agreement has been reached with contractors on some of the issues that have stalled work on the biggest expansion of the waterway in a century.
Agriculture honorees on way to hall
A former congressman, a forester, two educators and two other industry leaders will be inducted into the Arkansas Agriculture Hall of Fame during the hall’s 26th induction ceremony March 7.
Texas, others launch incentive wars to get SpaceX’s rocket pad
In a glass-walled conference room at the California headquarters of Space Exploration Technologies, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk told Texas officials he was interested in building the world’s first commercial rocket launchpad in their state — if the state could compete.
St. Louis Fed chief foresees shift to ‘qualitative’ guidance
James Bullard, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, said Wednesday that the Fed will probably signal the path for interest rates based on “qualitative” judgments of the economy, moving away from a pledge to begin considering higher rates when unemployment falls below 6.5 percent.