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...country without food how to cook, is deliciously absurd. Oppenheimer adroitly picks up nuances: for example, how , in a country with no food, everybody's main concern seems to be getting deodorant and toothpaste. From Jose, a welder in Cienfuegos, he learns the sign language used when discussing the forbidden subject of Fidel: an imaginary beard drawn with the hands from the chin...
Under the act, employers are forbidden to discriminate in hiring, promotions and firing. They are also compelled, if it is not too burdensome, to offer "reasonable accommodations" -- things like a ramp for a wheelchair or a sound amplifier on a phone -- to people with disabilities. The fuzziness of that language has prompted many of the 264,000 employers covered by the act to seek advice about their new obligations, especially since they face stiff financial penalties if they violate its provisions. Says Bobby Silverstein of the Senate Subcommittee on Disability Policy: "Companies are sending human- resources employees to seminars...
Chinese officials are quick to deny that undue resources pour into competitive sports. But in a nation with only 60 swimming pools, there are 10 elite diving schools. Students are supervised virtually nonstop, cut off from families unless relatives happen to live nearby, forbidden to date until their 20s and expected to train so hard that most wind up unfit for work outside athletics. Some are left virtually illiterate in a land where, by Confucian tradition, intellectual pursuits are prized over physical ones. In exchange, athletes (and often their families) enjoy better jobs and housing. They wear imported athletic clothing...
Weld, where I spent a year of my life, is now encased in fencing and scaffolding. I can't get near the steps where I used to sit and people-watch in the Yard. I can barely see the forbidden fire escape where I studied illegally in the warm spring weather. I can only stand below, listen to the hum of the drills and imagine the dramatic changes in my once-familiar room...
Behind bars, Tyson had his first serious run-in with prison authorities when he threatened to "whup" a guard after they argued in the commissary. Tyson was given four days' solitary in the disciplinary unit, where he was forbidden to work at his job in the cellblock recreation area, for which the ex-champ earns 65 cents an hour. He also had his earliest possible release date pushed back 15 days, to April...