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...same-sex domestic partners: They're not just for San Franciscans anymore. With a nod to a new generation of workers and an increasingly competitive labor market, America's three biggest carmakers announced Thursday they would offer comprehensive health benefits to employees' same-sex domestic partners. The kings of Detroit (Ford, GM and Chrysler) will begin offering the benefits as of August 1; various spokespeople expressed hope the move would encourage potential employees to see the once staid industry in a new light. They have good reason to hope they will stand apart: The vast majority of American companies still...
...have them perform the same set of excerpts from behind a scene, enter via a different entrance and enter the stage walking on a piece of carpet so you can't tell if they're wearing high heels or not," says Jill Woodward, a spokesperson for the Detroit Symphony Orchestra...
Sources: Plain Dealer, Encyclopedia Americana (phone); Detroit News, Times-Picayune (lottery); AP (coaster), Houston Chronicle (India...
...shame that simply helping the homeless isn't enough of a motivation for such good deeds. The homeless should be counted so that Detroit is allotted the resources to be able to feed them. Making sure they are counted is certainly a worthy endeavor--however, it is a worthy endeavor in and of itself, out of the context of simply trying to break a million. They and their issues are important regardless of Detroit's final population count...
...clue, Detroit. A million would be nice, but there are other, more important reasons to "stand up and be counted...