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...where are the office pop songs? Rock music has never lacked for zillionaires to romanticize farmhands and factory workers. But what of the John Henrys plowing sweatily through PowerPoint presentations? White-collar employees, who make up 60% of the workforce, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, are largely absent from pop lyrics, except for novelty songs and minor works. (The Bangles' Manic Monday mainly proves that the songwriter Prince is more convincing on the subject of sex than commuting.) As far as songwriters are concerned, the Dilberts of the world can buy their MP3s, but they can't have...
...little different. Sebastian says the goal was to grow up—to make the articles more serious than last time, more carefully researched. The issue, at 60 pages, is heavy with an impulse towards that vague notion of “substance” that was pleasingly absent from the first issue. That impulse is where “The Truth About Bottled Water” comes from; same with the piece on women in HIV advocacy and Sebastian’s six-pager on relationships on “How to Live Happily Ever After...
...focused, since 1990, on ensuring that children receive their basic immunizations during their first five years of life. The Ministry of Health and Population reports that 97% of infants today are vaccinated against tuberculosis, pertussis, polio, measles, diphtheria and tetanus. Polio, once considered endemic in Egypt, is now largely absent. And campaigns against diarrhea-related diseases have been very effective, using television to reach the most remote rural areas with simple advice on combating diarrhea and dehydration. "This national campaign targeting specific causes of infant mortality was highly effective and was globally recognized," says Magdi El Sanadi, UNICEF Egypt...
...compromise candidate after Hamas and Fatah brokered their unity government in Mecca earlier this year. And it came as no surprise when he announced his resignation on Monday, amid a fierce resurgence of fighting between the two camps that has claimed at least eight lives since Sunday. Absent a power base of his own, Kawasmeh's prospects for integrating the fighting forces of the rival factions into the Palestinian Authority's security forces were always slim. But his resignation may nonetheless portend the collapse of the unity government, and the onset of a full-blown Palestinian civil...
...current UC President Ryan A. Petersen ’08, found that 92 percent of undergraduates contacted through a phone survey supported extending library hours. “Given that most schools have students centers and libraries that are open for 24-hour periods, it seemed notably absent at Harvard,” Petersen said yesterday. Students working in the Lamont Library Cafe—which opened this past fall—expressed support for making the 24-hour schedule permanent. “It gives people a place to go if they need to work,” said...