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...myth of the life-changing summer—those three languid months between the end of childhood and the first steps into real life, a series of long days without parents or school to live wildly, fall in love, and find one’s true self. June, July, August: enough time to take a walk on the wild side, turn around, and walk back.In “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh,” written and directed by Rawson Marshall Thurber (“Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story”) and loosely based on Michael Chabon?...
...Michigan, whose 12.6% jobless rate is the highest in the U.S., with still more auto-plant closings coming soon, launched its "No Worker Left Behind" program in August 2007. So far the state has footed the bill - up to $10,000 per displaced worker - for 61,434 unemployed Michiganders to learn the math, technology and science skills they need to embark on new careers at companies like Hemlock Semiconductor, Dow Chemical and Dow Corning, which are investing and hiring there. Also in demand: the program's newly trained nursing assistants, physical therapists and health-care technicians...
...memos, dated May 30, 2005, quotes an internal investigation by the CIA inspector general (IG), revealing that two detainees were waterboarded on scores of occasions in the space of a single month. In August 2002, Abu Zubaydah, the first prisoner put through the CIA's overseas detention program, was waterboarded at least 83 times; and in March 2003, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the confessed mastermind of the 9/11 attacks, was waterboarded 183 times. (These numbers were redacted in one version of the released memos, but were noticed in a separate version by Marcy Wheeler of the blog emptywheel...
...Beantown for Beans. The Southwest airline has announced service to Boston beginning August 16, so you can still squeeze out some cheap fares for the last two weeks of summer. The airline will start with 10 daily flights from Logan's Terminal E: five to Chicago Midway and five to Baltimore/Washington International...
...travel to China every year, cutting a seven-hour slog to Shanghai, which had to be made through a third city like Hong Kong, to an 80-minute trip. The floodgates opened the other way, too: at first, a trickle of some 200 Chinese tourists each day in August, and now, seven months later, a pouring in at the maximum number of 3000 every day in April. (See pictures from a day in the life of Taiwan's former president...