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Jagger has assembled an enviable guest-list on the album, even if the combinations do seem a little forced at times. As well as Kravitz, Pete Townshend, Wyclef Jean and Matchbox Twenty’s Rob Thomas make appearances, while Bono contributes all of about two lines to the euphoric...
FLY FIRST CLASS Travel checklist: passport, tickets--and support stockings? Researchers report that "compression stockings," elastic socks or hose that fit tightest around the ankles, can dramatically decrease the risk of developing dangerous blood clots on long air flights (the so-called coach-class syndrome). For patients who are already...
As for the oft-cited concern that adopting a living wage will force an employer to alter its entire wage scale?alled wage compression?ardner says that Cambridge considers raising workers?wages on a case-by-case basis, and the city does not automatically raise everyone? wages when the living...
OShea said that Johns Hopkins has not conducted any studies to see whether the raise in wages has caused wage compression or resulted in an above normal level of lay-offs. The autonomy of each of the schools makes the figures simply too hard to calculate, he says.
A more obsessed gamble is taking place across America at the Integrated Media Systems Center at the University of Southern California. The center resides in a squat, red brick building, well baked by the Los Angeles sun, whose modest exterior camouflages the far-out work that's happening within. The...