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...Reconciliation Act). The government-mandated program keeps any former employee's corporate health-insurance plan active for 18 months. Now the Internet enables comparison shopping for health insurance, and there are cheaper alternatives to COBRA. Websites like eHealthInsurance.com allow an evaluation of various health plans in any given ZIP code. Gary Lauer, eHealthInsurance's chief executive, says a family of four can usually find an online deal that's better than COBRA's average $600 per month premium, although prices vary by state. "Most people don't realize that it's so easy to compare," he says. But with...
Even the classic camouflage-wearing U.S. Army can't ignore the winds of changing fashion forever. This spring the Army will update its dress code for the first time in a decade. ALLOWED: Braids and cornrows, baldness (natural or chosen), dyed hair if it looks "natural" (no blue, pink or fire-engine red) and one cell phone, pager or digital organizer per person (but not all three). BANNED: Dreadlocks, colored contact lenses and, on men, visible body piercings or nail polish. Polish is O.K. for women, so long as it's not blue, black, khaki or--things really are changing...
...English disease. (An ugly reminder of that malady came on Jan. 6, when police fought fans after a match between Cardiff City and Leeds United; 12 arrests have thus far ensued.) Aggression is such a part of the game that the Football League was recently obliged to consider a code of conduct for club mascots, after a series of altercations involving people clad in woolly animal suits...
...complex ways of resolving disputes, none of which involve giving an Afghan Muslim to foreign infidels. As Kandahar government secretary Engineer Pashtun quizzically pointed out, "the Afghan Constitution of 1963 prohibits extradition to another country no matter the crime". The wheels of Afghan justice, and of the Pashtun code of conduct known as pastunwali, are turning. Just maybe not in ways that we will ever fully understand...
...committee called on Harvard to adopt a code of workplace conduct and urged Summers to issue a “strong” statement about workplace expectations...