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...Retirees who aren't self-employed like Utsumi can struggle to find decent work?most companies still prefer to hire younger people, because they generally cost less under Japan's rigid, seniority-based salary structure. But the sheer demand for workers is encouraging companies to be more flexible. Top temping company Adeco plans to double its number of registered workers aged 50 and older by 2008. Employment agency Pasona is forming a Japanese version of the American Association of Retired Persons?not to lobby for prescription drug plans, but to help retiree job seekers find work...
...show had a decent premiere, in a tough slot against Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, an urban take on the innocents-in-jeopardy theme. Bruckheimer's suburban counterprogramming is risky but makes sense. It may be unfair to stereotype the burbs as a refuge for people fleeing life, but one reason people move there is security. Close to Home is not ashamed to milk those anxieties, right down to its title: the danger, it says, is not just in the big cities. It's right here, close to your cozy little cul-de-sac and your good public schools...
...labor-intensive life of study shrouded in ill-fitting pants to a labor-intensive life of study shrouded in nicely tailored pants. Together, we can stop ourselves from making horrible mistakes like white pumps, and start to conquer that ineffable feminist quandary of having it all, i.e. being half decent-looking and still attending Harvard...
...said earlier that Kodak doesn't make cutting-edge cameras, and, Wi-Fi aside, that's so far true in this case as well. The 4-megapixel camera with a 3X optical zoom lens takes decent pictures, but for $600 it should. I've seen better. I've never seen easier...
...agencies, and start thinking of Africa as a continent of people who have the potential and desire to solve their own problems and deserve a fair chance of doing so. Still, people outside of Africa need to change more than their thinking if Africans are ever to get a decent shot at healing the many wounds of the continent...