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Lack of commitment to permanent jobs by businesses has created one: temporary work. The temporary-help sector has added 150,000 jobs since April, and while 1.4 million people hold part-time jobs only because they were unable to find full-time work--up 27% from a year ago--the...
But with cities across the country watching Springfield's experiment, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be moving to crack down. While federal law prohibits the reimport of U.S. drugs by anyone other than the manufacturer, the FDA has long tolerated individuals who bring prescription drugs from Canada for...
It happens that I am a smoker. It also happens that, each year at this time, I'm on vacation on the Caribbean island of Sint Maarten / Saint Martin, which, being a joint satrapy of the Dutch and French governments, has no smoking restrictions - you can light up at work...
“Harvard is much better off for having stopped this one year experiment,” Breimer said.
The novel, which Lethem read passages from during his Cambridge stop, tells the story of Dylan Ebdus and Mingus Rude, a white boy and a black boy living in 1970s Brooklyn. Dylan, whose name comes from his parents’ fascination with the folk-singer, is conscious of race early...