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...obstacles.” “I’d go into random tents—the American tents, the Indonesian tents, the South African tents—and it didn’t matter if they were poor or rich, people would invite me to eat,” he said. The study’s authors echoed Cajee’s personal experiences. “Social distance isn’t as large as you thought on Hajj, and maybe that’s the learning you come out with,” Khwaja said...
...were issued Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), which contained packages of pretzels, crackers and cheese paste, lemonade powder, and, for the main course, rice, beans, and sausage, a sort of U.S. Army jambalaya...
...Even my mother used to tell me that I should eat all the food on my plate because there are starving children in Africa,” Mrema said. “I feel like the West thinks that Africa is a million steps back. In a sense, it is, in terms of development. There’s a lot of work to be done, but it?...
...Eliot may have branded April the cruelest month, but he was not a French employer. For those whose prime concern is the productivity of their workforce, May is anything but kind. That's because a series of public holidays create ponts ("bridges") that allow the weekends to eat into the 35-hour work week. And 2008 will be particularly harsh on employers: With the May 1 holiday falling on Thursday, chances are slim that most French employees will show up for work on Friday, either, despite the fact that it's nominally a working day. The pattern will be repeated...
...answer varies upon whom one asks. Most big businesses simply eat the lost work days or deduct them from the additional vacation time employees have been accorded since France introduced the 35-hour work week in 2000. Midsize and smaller companies running on tighter budgets say they have a harder time absorbing time lost to ponts; many have begun insisting that staff return to their posts between mid-week holidays and weekends...