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...crippled Detroit automakers with high labor costs. Now, workers are feeling the pain. Chrysler LLC plans to lay off 12,000 workers this year after cutting 13,000 jobs last year. Americans are wary of unions for good reason. After shooing workers into Big Labor’s arms, Obama will shame businesses with the Patriot Employer Act. It offers a one percent tax credit to companies, but under a heap of conditions, including a pension plan that matches five percent of worker contributions for every employee and payment of 60 percent of each worker’s healthcare premiums...
...think there will ever be a time when we presume to take away the trays.” Even during the trial run in Quincy, students were able to request a tray. Sometimes busy days warrant trays, Martin said, “Heaven forbid you break your arm,” she added. The test run in Quincy reflects a trend in university dining halls across the country. St. Joseph’s College in Maine first introduced trayless dining this fall. Several other colleges and universities, including Middlebury College in Vermont, San Francisco State University, University of California...
...small town in Kenya's lush Rift Valley, arrows are scattered around a dusty, hay-littered compound. Men in plaid-checkered shirts construct bows and say they were forced to arm themselves for war. "We were using swords but they were not effective," says Sylvester, 24, slashing a knife in the air. "In a day we can make between 80 and 100 [arrows]," he adds, refusing to give his last name out of fear. Community members pool money together to buy the necessary tools in secret; the arrows are then distributed within the neighborhood. Local leaders know about the arrow...
...succession of gymkhanas, parties and inexhaustible supplies of American comics. But it was all colored by a guilt-edged curiosity at the poverty and brutality he saw on his frequent bike rides around the rest of Shanghai - trips about which his mother later claimed to know nothing. Arm's-length parenting was common in this social set, writes Ballard, with children often treated as "an appendage to their parents, somewhere between the servants and an obedient Labrador." He claims these were happy days, yet time and again he mourns, without rancor, the lack of parental warmth, which he blames...
...Championship Series where she threw a no-hitter against Penn. To top it off, Madick returned in the second and final game of the series to record the last seven outs in a 4-2 win that gave Harvard the title. Madick is not the only strong arm on the Harvard roster. Other returning pitchers include senior Amanda Watkins and sophomore Dana Roberts, ranked eighth and ninth in the Ivy League last season with ERA’s of 2.54 and 2.60, respectively. Leading the way for the Crimson at the plate—and sometimes behind it?...