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Giuseppi Foti, Reggio Calabria's superintendent of antiquities, is preparing to take back these Greek gifts from the Ionian Sea and has been working on what he hopes will be the definitive fix on their authorship and origin. Among Foti's theories, the most probable could be that a Roman ship returning from plundering Greece was caught in a storm, and the statues were jettisoned to save the vessel from foundering...
...satisfied with his first job. He is stuffing feathers in down coats for a clothing manufacturer at $4.50 an hour. Brother Thanh is tinkering at home. "I found this broken television set in the garbage on the street, and I'm trying to find out how to fix it," he says...
...when the economy will improve: If people expect an instant fix, they're wrong. But what you can have relatively early is a restoration of confidence that inflation will not continue at an ever accelerating rate. That's important because a lot of what fans inflation is the lack of confidence that anybody can do anything about...
...announced it will lay off 214 employees in January. "This city is like a house that's been neglected for twelve years," says Voinovich. Indeed, an aging storm sewer system regularly floods Cleveland basements. Swimming pools were closed last summer because the city could not afford to fix broken plumbing. Voinovich wants to raise revenues for such maintenance needs by increasing the city income tax from 1.5% to 2%. Last week, on the second anniversary of default, the city council voted to put that proposal, even though voters defeated it in November, back on the ballot in February. Says...
There is no quick fix for the Everything Crisis caused by energy prices...