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...usual culprit along this stretch of road is the kangaroo. "The roos breed up something phenomenal," says Eucla mechanic Rodney Fowler, who regularly tows broken-down vehicles across the Nullarbor. "Trucks bowl them over all the time, and a few cars as well. And they just keep on coming and they don't thin out." But a roo isn't to blame this morning, nor is low oil or water. Written across the Kenworth's chassis is the motto without trucking australia stops, but into the last quarter of their 40-hour trip, Schneider and Bryson must simply...
...this sharp increase in social isolation? Both the new study and mine found sharp generational differences--baby boomers are more socially marooned than their parents, and the boomers' kids are lonelier still. Is it because of two-career families? Ethnic diversity? The Internet? Suburban sprawl? Everyone has a favorite culprit. Mine is TV, but the jury is still...
...words prove sadly prophetic: during Rampage's filming, a family member was shot dead by a rival street gang. Gittoes films the funeral and the fruitless police search for the culprit, but also turns the camera on himself, suggesting that the attention he's brought to the community is partly to blame for the crime. "This is the problem with documentary filmmaking," he says at one point. "There are lives at stake...
...course, this does not mean it was conscious—hence, the first line of defense for fraud: “I didn’t know!” Blaming the misdemeanor on a strange sub-conscience that causes unusually immoral behavior—as if the culprit had taken Jekyll’s potion and mysteriously transformed into her Hyde counterpart—is offered to mitigate the action...
...record on the job speaks more strongly than a stretched rsum, says John Challenger of the outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. Rather than booting talented workers, Challenger suggests, employers should offer an amnesty period. "A moratorium would let anyone who needs to come clean," he says. And the culprit could always go back to school and finish that degree--maybe even on company time...