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...SZECHENYI One of Europe's largest spa complexes (pictured), it features 12 thermal pools, indoors and out, and an outpatient clinic for physiotherapy. Built in 1913 and greatly expanded in 1927, this gorgeous spa is a bargain at $8.40 a visit...
...offensive. While the U.S. pushes east along a broad front, Pakistani forces will push west, flooding the tribal areas in what Lieut. General David Barno, commander of U.S.-led coalition forces in Afghanistan, calls a "hammer and anvil" strategy. "The idea is to come up with O.B.L. in the bargain," says a senior military official. "They are not going to say that's the goal, but it's the goal...
...work on these shows, there's little labor--at least, not in the blue-collar sense. This is partly because of our move from a manufacturing to a service economy. But service work is more telegenic; that trench warfare with a smile between hassled bargain seekers and stressed-out staff has drama built in. A& E's Airline (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.) follows employees of Southwest Airlines, chosen for its reputation of good worker relations. "The customer doesn't always come first at Southwest," says executive producer Charles Tremayne. "The staff comes first." On Airline, not only is the customer...
Here are some of the things kids at Garfield/Franklin elementary in Muscatine, Iowa, no longer do: eagle watch on the Mississippi River, go on field trips to the University of Iowa's Museum of Natural History and have two daily recesses. A sensible bargain has been struck: literacy first, canoe trips later. But there are more substantive losses too. Creative writing, social studies and computer work have all become occasional indulgences. Now that the standardized fill-in-the-bubble test is the foundation upon which public schools rest--now that a federal law called No Child Left Behind mandates that...
Carens is also a member of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), but criticized the Union for not driving a tough enough bargain in negotiations with the University. He reiterated one of the NLC’s planks—a call for a contract provision that would prohibit the University from laying off any more Union workers...