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Unemployment remains high and wage growth is still flat, but at least one group of fortunate Americans is doing quite well, thank you very much. The nation’s CEOs were paid better in 2010 than they were in 2007, just before the Great Recession brought the economy to its knees.

Seems that “corporate chieftain” is just behind “nursing home attendant” on the list of the most recession-proof jobs. Who knew?

Feed your head: Want to build your brain power? Try eating more citrus, nuts and leafy greens — just three of the foods that may help improve cognitive function.

Now, if the food scientists can just engineer this stuff into a Hot Pocket, our math scores might start measuring up to the Chinese.

Heave-ho: The Milton Bradley era has ended, as the Seattle Mariners cut the troubled outfielder on Monday.

After clearing out his locker at Safeco, Bradley headed straight to the unemployment office, where he argued with a caseworker over whether he needed to take a resume-writing class, and later committed an unforced error on a simple one-page form that would up costing him a week’s worth of benefits.

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff

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