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...Santa Monica city council passed an ordinance last July that would impose a living wage not only on its contractors but also on hotels and other major businesses located in a 1.5-sq.-mi. "coastal zone," adjacent to its famous beach. Hotel owners got enough signatures to suspend imposition of the law, and are challenging it in a referendum that will be on the city ballot in November...
Patricia Alston, who works at a Baltimore catering company, would agree. Seven years after that city's living wage was enacted, she has had her first beach vacation and is poised to become a homeowner. "The living wage contributed a great deal to my ability to get the house," she says. Like Jerome Gibbons, the Los Angeles airport worker, Alston has seen her job transformed from a dead end to a vehicle of hope. For all the costs and uncertainties of the living wage, that may be the strongest argument in its favor. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/New Orleans...
...Sept. 11, personal chefs have been inundated with requests for simple comfort foods like chicken pot pie and noodle soup. "People are still reluctant to go out to eat," says Candy Wallace, who heads the American Personal Chef Association. "They'd rather be home." Michael Zytowski, 33, a Long Beach, Calif., chef, agrees that current appetites run more toward pot roast than foie gras. "I haven't run into a client yet who wants Chateaubriand or lobster," he says...
...military checkpoints are the first sign that Trincomalee isn't your average beach resort. The navy gunboats sweeping the harbor are another. So why are hotels in this northeastern Sri Lankan town booked nearly solid these days? Blame it on the cease-fire. For years, Trincomalee's proximity to the front lines of the war against separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and its strategic value as a major deepwater harbor made it a city on edge. The war also kept visitors from some of the island's finest beaches on the little-visited eastern coast. Just six months...
...since the bilateral cease-fire announced last December, small groups of expatriate aid workers and Sri Lankans have been flocking to "Trinco" to see what they have been missing all these years. Most head to the Nilaveli Beach Hotel, tel: (94-2) 622-071, about 15 km north of town. Originally set up as a luxury resort, the place has lost some of its gloss. Still, the beach stretches for at least a mile and rooms go for as little as $15 a night. Once there, you can take in a boat trip to nearby Pigeon Island for snorkeling...