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...Gardena, Calif. "All of a sudden, it wasn't the money anymore," she says. "It was the action, the high." On one occasion, she told her young son to wait on a street corner after school, and she would pick him up at 2:30 p.m. for a dental appointment. She went to Gardena instead, and her husband found the boy at 6 p.m., still waiting. On another day, she locked her house and went to Gardena, figuring she would be , back in time to let her daughter in when the girl came home from school at 3 p.m. Hours...
...tables, which met two or three times a week all spring, dealt with pensions; health, dental and disability insurance; dependent care; career development, training and tuition assistance; salary structure and administration; support staff involvement in decision making; the new personnel manual, and health, safety and affirmative action...
Workers will benefit from a $5 million fund forchild care and care for elderly relatives. Inaddition, employees get coverage for theirchildren's medical and dental bills...
...people are brave enough to risk a $3 haircut at the local barber college, and fewer still will opt for cut-rate root-canal work done by a student at a dental-school clinic. But a growing cadre of frugal gourmets from Montpelier to San Francisco is finding that meals in culinary-school restaurants can be very tasty deals indeed. A senior's sauce may need a soupcon of salt, or a nervous freshman waiter may tip over your water goblet, but for the most part, cooking-school eateries provide an interesting ambience and fine cuisine at half the price...
...drawback to the process is that it requires electrodes made from the rare metal palladium, which is commonly used as a component of dental fillings. Palladium doesn't come cheap. Before the cold fusion breakthrough, it sold for about $5 million per ton, and the price is now rising...