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...trade in advance of next year's Olympic Games. The Church's Holy Synod accused city officials of wanting to license extra brothels to cope with an expected increase in demand during the Games. Prostitution is legal in Greece if practiced in a licensed brothel; each brothel can employ up to three people. City officials plan to register 230 establishments for a total of 960 approved sex workers. Not that ambitious, given that at the Sydney Olympics an estimated 10,000 prostitutes serviced some 150,000 clients...
...HCECP report, the committee urged Harvard not to employ outsourcing as a tool to weaken working conditions...
Automated antispam software can only do so much, so the four e-mail giants have started to employ a new weapon: humans. People, it seems, learn the rules of this new battlefield faster than machines do. At AOL's new control facility in Gainesville, Va., home to its antispam special-forces unit, workers like Anna Ford scan screens that show blocks of mail entering the system. She's looking, Matrix-like, for suspicious patterns. "Here's someone sending 50 e-mails to 3,000 recipients," says Ford. "That stinks." With one click, the sender is identified as a China-based...
American corporations seem to have forgotten a lesson of history. Henry Ford revolutionized business by creating customers out of his own work force. Today's bottom-lining CEOs outsource work to whichever country is paying workers the least. The U.S. cannot employ protectionism for fear of world trade sanctions. But in this case, citizens have more power than government. What this country needs is an "American content" rule requiring every product sold in the U.S. to state the percentage of domestic manufacture, just as food products provide nutritional information. The American consumer needs a way to police the shortsighted avarice...
...hour or two to see a neurosurgeon, and one orthopedic surgeon from Philadelphia commutes every week to see patients in the Midwest, where malpractice-insurance costs are lower. Emergency rooms from Orlando, Fla., to Belleville, Mo., report that rising insurance premiums are making it difficult for them to employ the trauma specialists needed to treat car-accident victims. In protest, doctors from New Jersey to Washington State are taking to the streets and engaging in work slowdowns and strikes. Nearly 100 physicians in and around Jacksonville, Fla., have stopped performing elective surgery, making the county activate an emergency response system...