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...Finger-Picking Good...
...family's living hope for Jessie's recovery. Friends who know Jessie talk about a tough kid, one who can hold his own in debates with grownups about the sun and stars, but who is happy to shoot squirt guns and swing from oak trees. When he got a finger stuck in a hole in the school bus two years ago, he remained calm as firefighters cut away the bus to free...
...neighborhood recreational center, Esther Buttitta, 74, a retired schoolteacher, is drawing on years of carefully honed teaching skills to engage a handful of local kids whose parents are out running errands. "Finger painting with chocolate pudding is pretty easy if you just dive right in, see?" she says chirpily, before unloading a Jell-O container onto the white paper in front of her and digging in. As her creation takes shape, Andrew Boatright, 3, is quiet, wide-eyed, awed. Soon his primitive portraits cover the table, and many dollops of brown glop adorn his newly animated face...
...earn a living. The author is less compelling when he peers into the future. Conventionally, he predicts more home working, telecommuting and team working, and fewer one-company careers. Wages, he believes, "will become more erratic." People will ease gradually into retirement and "there will be no accusatory finger pointed at those workers who want a more balanced life." Management will be reinvented. "Work will remain in tomorrow's enterprise and will still need to be managed. But people will increasingly manage themselves," Donkin writes. Less predictably, he argues that barriers between work and leisure will blur, cooperatives will flourish...
...everyone is thrilled with Ybor City?s latest attraction. Last weekend, protesters gathered on the district?s streets wearing bandannas, gas masks and Groucho Marx-style glasses and moustaches - anything to hide their features and thwart the cameras. "Digitize this!" one of them shouted, thrusting a finger into the camera lens...