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Back in Austin, bored Republicans spread out in the chamber with their feet on the antique furniture. Two of them brought their mitts and played a pretty impressive game of catch. There was also a Texas-size paper-wad fight. They designed milk-carton boxes with the faces of missing Democrats, created a WANTED poster with shots of the rebels, established a toll-free number for information on their whereabouts and made a deck of Iraq-inspired playing cards with pictures of the Democrats on them. They even used the state's public-safety website to run an all-points...
More companies are offering such perks as on-site massages and hair salons, take-home meals and pet health insurance, according to surveys by employee-benefits consultants. But there's a catch. Most of the new benefits are paid for by workers, the people being asked to do more work for the same--or lower--pay. Each week, for example, some 50,000 workers pay to use Pressed4Time, the dry-cleaning pickup-and-delivery franchise that is part of a growing suite of employer-facilitated "concierge" services. "Companies are adding 'soft' benefits that save employees time as opposed to 'hard...
...Vegara's research, while spending in the Madrid area increased more than 25% from 1995 to 1998, nearly all of that went to large businesses and malls. To compete, some smaller clothing shops now specialize in hand-tailoring and high-quality fabrics. Other businesses are staying open longer to catch more customers. But the megamalls can beat the small shops on opening hours too: Xanadú has special permission to remain open 365 days a year. Like many small-business owners, Carlos Perez Gonzalez has no interest in working Sundays. "When do we rest?" asks the 61-year-old proprietor...
...balls, are lying in the open air in an area visited by looters "until the last few days or so," a senior U.S. official told TIME. Troops protecting the approach to one of the most sensitive storage areas say that they still intercept a looter a day. Those they catch are held in a sun-baked compound for two days, and then made to do 5 more of manual labor...
...Princeton clearly was the fastest boat out there,” junior Bonnie Scott said. “We knew it’d be hard to catch them. We were just going out there trying to keep pace with them...