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...nonprofit outfit called the National Business Group on Health (NBGH). Bent on slashing costs left and right these days, a growing number of big companies are nonetheless investing serious money in bribing, er, encouraging employees to get healthier. Nearly 6 in 10 (58%) now offer wellness programs, up from fewer than half (43%) in 2007. And the percentage of companies paying people to ditch bad habits (especially eating junk food and not exercising enough) has gone from 53% in 2008 to 61% this year. (See pictures of cubicle designs submitted to The Office...
...deterrent. In 2002, Archives employee Shawn Aubitz was sentenced to 21 months in prison for stealing, among other documents, 71 pardons signed by 10 presidents. Virginia antiques dealer Howard Harner got two years in 2005 for walking off with more than 100 Civil War-era documents from the Archives; fewer than half have been found. That same year, Sandy Berger, Bill Clinton's former National Security Adviser, was sentenced to 100 hours of community service and fined $50,000 for filching five copies of classified documents from the National Archives shortly before he was scheduled to testify before the 9/11...
...Most importantly, the academic mission of the College should be its priority during budget cut season. The news that section sizes will increase next year as fewer TFs are hired is disconcerting to every Harvard student who knows that much of the learning at Harvard takes place in section. This personalized learning environment of a section is lost when students become just another head in the crowd. An 18-student section is already too large to allow for desired personal attention and opportunities for discussion, and thus 18 should certainly not be the lower limit on section sizes...
Defendants are offered fewer legal protections in military commissions than civilian courts, such as the right to public proceedings and a trial by jury. Military officers serve as judges and jurors (in cases that call for a jury) and the right to an appeal is not guaranteed. Unlike courts martial, which are mainly concerned with violations of the Uniform Code of Military Justice by U.S. servicemembers, modern military commissions are generally intended to try foreign combatants accused of violating the laws of war. As it is with many war powers, the Constitution is vague about the scope of military commissions...
...what has changed? Gallup attributes the new numbers to Republicans' purifying their views: 70% now call themselves pro-life, up 10 points in a year. But that's to be expected; when fewer people call themselves Republican, the party condenses into a pool of true believers. It's the people in the middle who are constantly weighing which restrictions are reasonable. A new Pew poll finds that while a majority of independents said abortion should be legal in most cases as recently as October, just 44% do so now. This may inspire some introspection on the part of political operatives...