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...Wabash, Ind., Janice Bone lost her job as an assistant payroll clerk at the Ford Meter Box Co. The reason? The firm, which will not let its employees smoke either on the job or at home, insisted that she take a urine test, which proved positive for nicotine...
Civil libertarians concede that companies have a right, not to mention a moral obligation to shareholders, to protect themselves from ruinous medical bills. But some critics argue that the punitive firings of Mercado and Bone represent a throwback to the early 1900s, when spies from the Ford Motor Co.'s notorious Sociological Department invaded autoworkers' homes to search for forbidden booze or unmarried live-ins. (Ford's Big Brother approach was intended partly to protect its employees from Detroit's legions of prostitutes and grifters, who preyed on the kind of ill-educated new immigrants who often worked...
...styles. But as Lewis Maltby of the A.C.L.U. notes, the question then becomes, Where do you draw the line? It is generally legal for a company to declare its workplace a smoke-free environment and punish violaters. How, though, can a corporation or government agency demand that employees like Bone refrain from lighting up away from work, especially since smoking itself is not a crime? High cholesterol levels can lead to heart disease and other health problems. But what right does an employer have to demand that a worker refrain from eating fried chicken or ice cream...
...nation's lawmakers are beginning to listen: 19 states, including New Jersey, Colorado and Oregon, have passed some form of legislation that bars employers from discriminating against workers because of their life-style. (Despite Indiana's new smoker-protection law, Bone has not got her former job back, and has filed a claim against the company. Overweight Mercado sued, won and got a judgment of more than $500,000, plus a return to his old post...
...grounds of the former Dahmer house in Bath, Ohio, for the remains of Steven Hicks, who may have been the murderer's first victim. In 1978 Hicks, 18, was hitchhiking when Dahmer, also 18 at the time, took him home, killed him with a barbell and smashed his bones with a hammer. So far, about 100 bone and three tooth fragments have been recovered from the grounds. Investigators plan to test them against a lock of hair and dental records that Hicks' parents provided in the hope of proving a match. In a statement issued last week, the Hicks family...