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...next time you are tempted to stiff a surly cabbie, put yourself behind the wheel. A recent study on workplace violence ranked driving a taxi as the most dangerous occupation in the U.S., with sheriff or bailiff as a distant second and police officer or detective the third most perilous positions. Between 1990 and 1992, 140 cab drivers and chauffeurs were killed, more than all law enforcement officials combined, according to researchers at the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. According to the study, about 20 American workers are killed and 18,000 are assaulted every week. Most...
...headquarters in Arkhangel'sk did not send any materials till the day before the vote. By then, campaigning was prohibited. Yeltsin won Sogra and the surrounding villages anyway. He received 538 votes; Zyuganov came in second with 378, followed by General Alexander Lebed with 262 and Vladimir Zhirinovsky a distant fourth...
When a new president comes into office in the U.S., he invariably promises his Cabinet lots of responsibility and respect, but everyone knows the truth--the President will thoroughly dominate the Administration, and he will treat most of his Cabinet Secretaries like slightly dim distant cousins. In Israel matters have always been different. Ministers there control powerful baronies, and they push hard on the Prime Minister, as do party elders and testy coalition partners. Now Benjamin Netanyahu, who announced his Cabinet last week, is trying to break the old traditions, consolidate power in his own hands and become Israel...
Once again, the U.S. will pose the question, Why aren't American teams better at this distant cousin to basketball...
...summer--is once again thriving with all varieties of life, person, animal and otherwise. School is over. No longer are my days organized by classes and papers and meetings. Sundays flow into Mondays which soon become Fridays and Saturdays and Sundays again. The frenzied pace of school seems a distant memory, and life seems to be in order...