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...wage competition isn't the only culprit. The United Farm Workers, a 27,000-member union in California, says workers are simply looking for better working conditions; this summer several California farm workers died from heat-related illness. A crackdown on illegal immigration by U.S. Border Patrol and vigilantes called "Minutemen" is also choking the supply of new workers...
...letter from Santa complaining about his reindeer's death and looked into it seriously." MORTEN JENSEN, spokesman for the Danish air force, which paid a part-time Santa Claus about $5000 after flight data and veterinarian reports backed up his claim that F-16 jets screaming over his farm had frightened his animal, Rudolf, to death
...merely eclectic," she says. "You cannot live at the crossroads of the caravans without absorbing the way of thinking of all those who have been there before you." That tolerance is gravely strained by Stalin, who is trying to force the Tunshan and other Central Asian tribes into collective farms - and, as World War II erupts, into the Red Army. Kaja's charismatic father Ul'an decides to fight for his people's freedom by joining the invading German forces. He befriends a scholarly Wehrmacht officer, Günther Berger. Amid the inferno of Stalingrad and the coarser hell...
...greatest resource J.P.L. brings to the space game, of course, is not good ideas as much as the people who generate them. The lab has always benefited from having its farm team of apprentice scientists right next door at Caltech. The first thing young engineers who come to work at the lab must do is learn the ways of J.P.L. as an institution, something that's easier to do here than at most other places of business. As long ago as the 1960s, J.P.L. embraced a concept known as "each one teach one," under which senior members of any team...
...letter from Santa complaining about his reindeer's death and looked into it seriously." MORTEN JENSEN, spokesman for the Danish air force, which paid a part-time Santa Claus about $5,000 after flight data and veterinarian reports backed up his claim that F-16 jets screaming over his farm had frightened his animal, Rudolf, to death...