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...There is no record of Le leaving the building based on footage from some 75 security cameras stationed around the building, though Yale officials have said it could be difficult to pick out Le, who is 4-feet-11-inches, from the crowd during the evacuation. Her ID, money, credit cards, and purse were found in her office in the Sterling building. Le was to be married yesterday to Columbia University graduate student Jonathan Widawsky at the North Ritz Club in Syosset, N.Y. The wedding was called off shortly after her disappearance, and Yale students prayed for Le?...
...automobile industry. If the American car companies are to survive, some accommodation must be made between the United Auto Workers, whose eagerness to forestall cuts to retiree and current worker benefits has made it difficult for firms to keep down costs, and the Big Three automakers. Ford, to its credit, has admitted as much by negotiating a deal with the UAW in which Ford has more flexibility in paying retiree health benefits...
Today, literal food stamps are a relic - purchases are made electronically, on plastic cards resembling credit cards. In fact, it's not even called the food-stamp program any longer; in classic bureaucratese, it's now known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. Recipients' incomes and property values must be below a certain level for them to qualify. In June, the average monthly benefit came to $294 per household and $133 per individual. Recently, officials have worked to make the program more convenient, distributing electronic benefit-card readers to farmers' markets so food stamps can be used there...
Dodd and Shelby have proven to be a potent bipartisan combination already in 2009. When Dodd moved an aggressive, populist credit-card-reform bill out of committee without a single GOP vote, he negotiated with Shelby to craft legislation more appealing to the other side of the aisle. It passed the Senate in late March by a 90-5 vote...