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...month - but if he calls in ill, he'll get €325 in benefits from the government over the same period. Not surprisingly, absenteeism in the Czech Republic has soared almost 20% since the policy was adopted in 1999. Today, 710 out of every 10,000 workers are absent due to illness on any given workday. Says Mracek: "It pays to be sick." Across Europe, vast numbers of citizens are failing to turn up for work, sometimes for months at a time. It's expensive - absenteeism sucked €17.2 billion from the British economy in 2001, with a total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Absent Minded | 3/2/2003 | See Source »

Professors and rhymes might have been absent, but talent certainly abounded on Tuesday as nine student poets, 60-some audience members and generous quantities of wine, cheese and butterfly crackers convened in Adams House Library for a poetry reading...

Author: By Ashley Aull, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Despite Funding Difficulties, Gamut Poets Return to Action | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...Absent is the tripped-out drug rap of the L.A.-based Living Legends crew. Likewise, the bleeding-wrist confessionals of collaborator and tour partner Slug are difficult to spot...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Music | 2/28/2003 | See Source »

...Because of land seizure and redistribution, agricultural production has dropped off by 67 percent, leaving over half of Zimbabwe’s 12 million inhabitants slowly starving. All food and produce now have price controls and correspondingly dire shortages—leaving them eerily and fatally absent from grocery shelves, leaving millions desperate for food...

Author: By Richard T. Halvorson, | Title: The Odd Couple | 2/25/2003 | See Source »

...might be having this discussion even absent what happened on Sept. 11, 2001,” he said...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sept. 11 Research Limits Draw Fire | 2/24/2003 | See Source »

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