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...decisions are not sacrificing themselves."The FAS Web site said that low-priority cleaning tasks such as high dusting, floor buffing, and vacuuming of offices would occur less frequently, but that high-priority cleaning tasks such as trash removal and cleaning of public restrooms would continue at their current frequency.According to Becker, the work hour reductions were not applicable to those janitors directly employed by Harvard, but affected all of the workers that had been subcontracted from outside cleaning companies—103 from Unicco, and 22 from Hurley of America. All of the janitors working at FAS are unionized...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FAS Cuts Janitor Hours | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

George Orwell never wrote about health insurance, but his ghost hovers over the current health-care debate, providing inspiration for all manner of fears about Big Brother-like intrusions by the government into the lives of ordinary Americans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Home Nurse Visits Survive Health-Care Reform? | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

...Reports of rising numbers of nutrition-related deaths and illnesses in Ethiopia are coming out amid tense times for humanitarian organizations, who face various obstacles in their attempts to deal with the effects of the drought. Unlike in previous years, the current crisis is not getting much play in the media. Part of the reason could be that after last year's drought put Ethiopia in the headlines, the country's government - no fan of negative attention - decided this time to take matters of food relief into its own hands, pushing international NGOs to the sidelines. "Giving publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Drought and Famine: Ethiopia's Cycle Continues | 8/15/2009 | See Source »

Even if California avoids federal intervention and the CDCR's current proposal is adopted, mandated state budget cuts will force the department to cut half of the already depleted programs for rehabilitation, substance abuse and vocational training. That would spell disaster, according to Woodford. "We release 10,000 [prisoners] a month now and in that 10,000 very few have been involved in anything to improve who they are as human beings. That should scare us. And in that 10,000 are some very violent people that left a lockup unit like Pelican Bay [to go] right back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Prison Crisis: Be Very Afraid | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

Bush, George W. • conservative economist Bruce Bartlett places blame for current economic crisis squarely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 8/14/2009 | See Source »

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