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Argentina’s recent push for legislation benefiting the nation’s domestic workers acknowledges the stickiness of the employment situation, but in rather curious way: It aims to regulate the industry by mandating labor contracts for the 800,000 to 900,000 domestic workers in the country. (A whopping 95 percent work in the black, meaning that they ply their trade without the benefit of a labor contract, health insurance, or retirement.) By increasing benefits and salaries, providing a measure of job security and protection, the government hopes to give a boost to workers stuck...
...Curious about his quest, I found Seracini through a local Florentine politician who has been acting as the modern-day equivalent of a Renaissance-era public patron for this cutting-edge cultural pursuit. As we stand under the palazzo's vaulted frescoes, Seracini lures me into his obsessive world, enumerating the historical and technical evidence that has accumulated as part of the centuries-old search for the lost mural. I can't help thinking of Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, and, indeed, Seracini is the only real-life character mentioned in the book...
...only one eager to educate her taste buds. "Consumers have developed very sophisticated palates either through travel or exposure," says David Kendall, principal of the Seattle brand consultancy Kendall Ross, which works with a number of wineries. "They are also more curious about the product, the producers, where it came from and how it was made." Fortunately, getting to the top of the class has never been more enjoyable...
...group: "Crazy art house lovers. 18- to 24-year-old guys. Conservatives who would condemn it." OK, so it's not the same crowd who will be racing the see Shrek the Third, but, as a friend of Devor's told him, 'Finally you made a commercial movie.'" Those curious about zoophilia may be disappointed by the, er, logistical questions that Zoo fails answer. But it won't be hard to find people curious about zoophila. You did read this far, didn...
...hearing, revealed the gruesome details of his case. Pickton has become instantly famous. "You're like the pope," a police officer told Pickton in a recorded interrogation played before the jury. Some 350 journalists are accredited and the trial is making global as well as local headlines. Each day curious spectators, including a class of teenagers from a local Christian school and several elderly people, jostle with family and friends of the victims for limited public seating...