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...react to someone who is being paid to be nice to me. I'm also uncomfortable with waiters, masseurs and Scientologists. So every time I'm on a plane, I wish they would just let me get out of my seat and attend to my own in-flight needs. Delta offered to meet me halfway. I could be a flight attendant on an Atlanta--to--Los Angeles trip so long as I completed one day of its 5 1/2-week flight-attendant-training program--and also attended to the needs of everyone else on the plane. I didn't know...
Because struggling airlines haven't hired in a long time and because flight attendants rarely quit--thanks to the limited hours and unlimited free flights they get for themselves and their families--Delta received more than 100,000 applications for 1,200 new $19-an-hour jobs. My fellow future flight attendants weren't at all what I expected, based on my experience with service-sector jobs--which is to say that none were illegal immigrants. Even more shocking, some of them were straight men. One had been laid off from his long-held job as a local-news producer...
...Thura, the country's most famous satirist, who performs under the stage name Zarganar, or "tweezers." On the night of June 4, the 47-year-old Burmese was arrested at his Rangoon home, shortly after he led a group of volunteers on an aid-delivery mission to the Irrawaddy Delta, which was devastated last month by a cyclone that left 134,000 people dead or missing. Before the police took him away, Maung Thura told foreign media outlets that many of the places he visited in the delta had not received any relief supplies from the country's governing junta...
...Students unfamiliar with literary theory can still engage with texts written in a language they understand, but those rusty on their calculus are perplexed by basic notation like delta, theta, and epsilon. As a result, many literature and history Core courses are deemed substantive enough to qualify for departmental credit. But no QR Core makes the cut for the math or statistics departments...
...September, Hornig was in the crowd. After the talk, she said, she finally overcame her hesitations about teaching and applied to Teach For America (TFA), which places college graduates in two-year teaching positions in high-need school districts. (She will be teaching high school French in the Mississippi Delta region next year...