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...Box Battle...
After years of failed attempts to unionize big-box stores, labor seems to have hit on a winning legislative tactic in the battle over pay. Congress hasn't acted in nearly a decade, and although 140 local living-wage laws have been enacted in the U.S., most apply just to city workers or contractors. Union leaders say the Chicago rule means a long-overdue raise for the working poor. In real terms, wages for nonmanagerial retail workers have fallen 18% since 1975. But David Vite, president of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, says the law could deter inner-city economic...
This clever search engine extracts images and videos from the news feeds of a variety of content providers, from YouTube to the BBC. Click on a source--say, the New York Times--from the "Browse Recently Added" box on the home page, and you will get a fresh batch of thumbnails, which serve as direct links to the news material. Or you can browse by category. Currently stocking some 10 million items in its searchable index, Pixsy intends to have 1 billion items by the end of the year...
...snobbery sends me into epicurean revelry. Don’t get me wrong: I love Cambridge. But let’s face it, the closest an average Harvard student gets to enjoying wine is guzzling a seven-dollar magnum of Yellowtail, which might as well be packaged in a box with a plastic pour spout...
...Americans will share after seeing “World Trade Center” is reunification in suffering and fear, a part of the 9/11 legacy that, while unforgotten, fails to speak to the nationalist upheaval in the years that followed and is all too easy to exploit at the box office...