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...which means leaving at 3 a.m. or thereabouts to get there by sunup. Count on a slow trip?at times the fog blanketing the road cuts visibility to a meter or two, making for an exhausting and eerie drive. From the parking lot, it's a 20-minute hike to the summit...
Staff writer Elisabeth S. Theodore (“Guards Rally for Wage Hike,” Apr. 30) isn’t the first to be misled by the Harvard Committee on Employment and Compensation Practices’ ambiguous presentation on guards’ wages. The security guards who left Harvard in 1999 were not higher paid than those who remained. The department froze our nominal pay for six years; that’s why our average real pay was lower at the end of that time—by $5,400 a year. We lost 27 of our members...
...poor man's Thailand boasts four dazzling but desolate white-sand beaches, each sparsely dotted with shanties where locals sell water, fruit and French fries. Victory Beach is a two-minute walk from a backpacker-hotel cluster known as Weather Station Hill, where $2 rooms abound. The adventurous can hike 3 km south to Independence Beach. Sokha and Ochheuteal beaches on the south shore offer bungalows for rent and are somewhat more commercial, but not by much...
...union lost a million members and is now down to about 2.7 million. Harmen Lehment, an economist at the Kiel Institute for World Economics, found that the metalworking industry shed 300,000 jobs in the two years after the 1995 strike - a result, he believes, of the 4% wage hike that was agreed on. He estimates that for every 1% of increased wages, the economy will lose 1% employment as companies invest in high-tech machinery or transfer jobs to Eastern Europe. "The rank-and-file not only are not concerned about unemployment," he says, "but also it seems they...
...exact businesses that are still recovering from Sept. 11 - namely airlines, transportation, tourism and travel, not to mention the slowdown's long-time whipping boy, manufacturing. And if economists have said it once, they've said it a million times - all that adds up to a virtual tax hike on consumers, upon whose open wallets this nascent recovery depends...