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...Other changes, however, could be more painful. The Postal Service has frozen officers' and executives' pay and cut back on travel. Unlike competitors FedEx and UPS, the agency is hoping to avoid shedding jobs. Still, since September, 156,000 employees at the nation's largest employer - from executives on down - have been offered voluntary early retirement. About 5% are expected to accept: a first wave of 3,685 workers effectively retired on Dec. 31, while about 4,000 more will exit in February. Several thousand more departures are expected in March. The retirees will not be replaced. These reductions...
...trend toward earlier delivery? For many women, it comes down to convenience - to accommodate their work schedules or to avoid being pregnant any longer than necessary. Part of the trend may also be traced to women's confusion over the official guidelines: While ACOG recommends that 39 weeks of gestation is ideal for both vaginal and Cesarean deliveries, 37 weeks is technically considered full term. So, many women question why they have to wait an additional two weeks to schedule a c-section if their baby is at term...
...terrorist organization that violently seized power over the Gaza Strip by throwing Fatah sympathizers off buildings and killing and imprisoning those who resisted. Thankfully, Israel does hold itself to a higher standard. While Israel attacks military installations, Hamas fires rockets indiscriminately at civilian targets. While Israel attempts to avoid civilian casualties, Hamas stores its weapons under mosques and schools and hides its operatives in hospitals. While Israel lines up trucks filled with humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza, Hamas steals medicine and food from the people for use by its militants. Indeed, Israel ought to be held...
...Gaza have, sadly, been killed in the operation. What this sort of calculus ignores, however, is the tens of millions of dollars Israel has invested in bomb shelters throughout the south, the early warning system it has installed, and the mass migration of Israelis from their homes to avoid the murderous rain of rockets falling daily from the sky. Civilian deaths are horrible and tragic, but to suggest that death ought to be the only measure of “proportionality” ignores the fact that, for seven years, Israeli civilians have lived under the constant terror of rocket...
Executive determination, however, is certain to be little match for legislative power. For one thing, the U.S. government lacks any clear bureaucratic process for deciding quickly which projects to fund and which to avoid outside of the political arena. For another, the new President's only route to the U.S. Treasury must pass through the halls of the same appropriators in Congress - both Republican and Democrat - who have overseen the terrific expansion of often wasteful federal spending over the past decade. Whether or not they call it a Christmas tree, in other words, a Christmas tree it will surely...