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Pigs eat a lot, and you had to work hard to keep them fed. You and your boyfriend mapped all the best Dumpsters in the area, and dived right into them for food...
...rural America, there's not many private companies that are going to hire teenagers," says Bill Renick of the Mississippi Partnership Workforce Area. "You just don't have businesses on every corner in small-town Mississippi. I've got applications from kids from Sarah - a town which has maybe 200 people - and summer-job opportunities just don't normally come around for them." As a result, Renick says more than 10,000 applications were submitted for what will likely turn out to be about 1,600 jobs...
...scene. Four Justices supported the man, William Osborne, but the court's majority said the decision whether to provide access to DNA tests is an issue for legislatures, not courts; 46 states and the Federal Government already mandate at least some access to DNA testing. "To suddenly constitutionalize this area would short-circuit what looks to be a prompt and considered legislative response," wrote Chief Justice John Roberts...
...placement agency told them that she was over 18. The case put the spotlight back on the thousands of illegal agencies operating in the Delhi and surrounding region, and the need for a regulatory body to monitor their activities. Out of the 5000 odd placement agencies in the area, only 33 are registered...
...Reporting from one area, the twitter feed is hardly a complete service, but its popularity underscores some shortcomings in the official daily reports. Chinese environmental officials don't regularly release PM2.5 data, and it isn't used to calculate the daily air pollution index. Instead the government figures rely on measurements of larger PM10 particles, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide. Several cities including Beijing and Shanghai are already measuring PM2.5, the state-run China Daily reported earlier this month, and the government is now considering what standards to set for the finer particles and ozone...