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...knowledge. As a result, many of these workers move to countries with more liberal immigration policies, like Canada and Australia. In these cases, America’s loss is another country’s gain.Low-skill immigrants are equally valuable to the American economy. Many work as farm laborers, hotel maids, construction workers, and gardeners, doing work that native-born Americans are overqualified for or are unwilling to do. Though racists often deride these workers as “lazy,”in fact, they toil long hours for little pay. Without them, construction would grind to a halt...
...Sending Wallace to the Maine Lobster Festival to write a straight food piece was a bit naive - like sending Hunter Thompson to Las Vegas and expecting a few paragraphs about hotel amenities. Wallace attended the festival, but instead of writing about lobsters as food he mused about them as living beings in a piece that, after some entertaining diversions through marine biology and colonial history, asks, "a question that's all but unavoidable at the World's Largest Lobster Cooker, and may arise in kitchens across the U.S.: Is it all right to boil a sentient creature alive just...
...still have electricity and Internet service, so I've been able to let them know we're OK. It seems downtown and the Medical Center were the only places to keep their power. We lost the cable TV a few hours ago. Just before it went, we saw the hotel we were supposed to be staying in last night for my brother's wedding. Part of the facade had been ripped off and the lobby flooded...
...Snore SolutionRe Sanjay Gupta?s article on remedies for snoring [Sept. 1]: My wife was on the verge of moving out of our bedroom when a lady in a hotel in the backblocks of Tasmania told us about a homeopathic preparation called Snorestop, which decongests and reduces tissue swelling in the sinuses. Eight years on, we are still sleeping in the same bed. It may not work for everyone, but it sure saved us. David Shannon, Auckland...
...impressed: founded in the 18th century, the venerable dining association confers membership to its ultra-exclusive ranks by invitation only. At his Bullingdon debut, Worth, wearing the distinctive tailcoat with ivory lapels that is required for all Bullingdon functions, caught a boat to Cliveden, a stately home turned luxury hotel. It was on board that he encountered Cameron. "There was a surreal Brideshead Regurgitated quality to the evening," says Worth, who went on to become a consultant and speechwriter for several heads of state. "I remember David quoting Winston Churchill extensively by memory - Churchill was a bit of a lush...