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...recruits. The Geneva-based World Health Organization launched a hiring ban on smokers in December 2005, the same month Sophie Blinham was fired just minutes into her new job at an English data communications firm after admitting she smoked. Von Schnurbein insists the Commission's decision is not "a green light for employers to discriminate," but Tom Jenkins of the European Trade Union Confederation disagrees. "This opens the possibility for all kinds of discriminations," he says, citing the obese and alcoholics. The Dublin Internet entrepreneur who placed the ad, Philip Tobin, was quoted as saying that smokers "stink...
...home turf in Indianapolis. The' 04 Olympic team team was uninspired from the start at times; even the classy Tim Duncan, three-time N.B.A. champ, looked like he would have preferred, say, a skin rash than to march in the opening ceremonies. The U.S., an ill mix of green young players and testy vets like Allen Iverson and Stephon Marbury, never recovered from a 19-point drubbing by Puerto Rico in the first game, and scraped away with a bronze in Athens. American hoop dominance was done...
...level of involvement in the hunt for her kidnappers - the military says they are reluctant to discuss intelligence-gathering efforts and Carroll herself is fearful of any retribution possibly aimed at her family in the U.S. or her colleagues in Baghdad. But when she was released into Baghdad's Green Zone on March 30, Cook says, "she told what she could remember as a victim - not as a journalist - to prevent others from having to go through the same thing." He adds: "I wasn't there for the debrief, but I do know Jill well enough to know...
...story of the photos was first broken on the blog Little Green Footballs and has become a cause celebre, especially among conservative and pro-Israel bloggers, who see evidence of anti-Israel bias in the media. They have a point - well, half a point, anyway. The principle of not faking anything in the news is absolute. But the effects of particular fakeries are relative. It was much more pernicious - if we're to be totally honest here - when a TIME cover of O.J. Simpson after his arrest was doctored to make his skin look darker. The manipulation made an accused...
...guests sign up and have heavy participation in our program," says Vail CEO Rob Katz, "and then think, ?maybe I'll ski an extra day, maybe an extra two days.'" The only danger would be if consumers don't respond, in which case the company may find its green goodness is full...