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...than $11 billion last year, but it's squawking over a $10 bill. The bill in question is a new Chicago ordinance that the retailer fiercely opposes, which will require the company--along with Target, Home Depot and other giant retailers--to pay a starting wage of $10 an hour, plus $3 in benefits, to anyone hired in the Windy City. The living-wage ordinance, passed by the city council after ferocious campaigning by organized labor and its business opponents, is the country's first directed at big retailers. Once enacted, it's set to be phased in over three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where to Get a Pay Raise | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

Astor Wines & Spirits in New York City is an old hand at arranging those free, in-house tastings that have become so common around the country. Earlier this year, the proprietors rented 500 glasses for a three-hour event. On the basis of past experience, that should have been plenty. But within just an hour, all the glasses had been used. Were they giving away the latest 90+-rated wine or the rare, cult Cabernet Screaming Eagle? Nothing of the kind. They were pouring reasonably priced natural wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Au Naturel | 8/13/2006 | See Source »

...absent over the summer, and we are left to define success for ourselves. Consequently, we search for something unique and fantastic, an experience that will enable us to apply the knowledge we’ve presumably learned here, but also to acquire the practical and intangible that no 70-hour academic-cum-extracurricular-cum-social schedule that is our Ivory Tower Harvard life can provide. Our academic experiences in Thayer and Emerson seem necessary but also painfully insufficient during these sunny months that encourage creativity and challenge us to use the time as best we can.We are chasing some novel...

Author: By William C. Marra, | Title: Chasing the Impossible | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

Friday, August 4, 3:10 a.m.: Officers were dispatched to the University Operations Services to a report that a building had lights on, but wasn’t supposed to at that hour. Officers arrived and searched the location and reported that all was in order...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Log: August 4–August 10 | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

...fishermen drop hundreds of red markers, attached to nets, which bob for nearly 2 km along the water's surface, forming rows as neat as traffic lanes on a highway. Then they maneuver their boats to form a wide square, and they wait. As the sun rises an hour later, a drama begins to unfold. Nearly 200 huge tuna glide through the lanes until they find themselves trapped atop a net that the fishermen have connected between their boats. The tuna thrash about wildly in a desperate search for escape, but the captains have already edged their vessels into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Mediterranean's Tuna Wars | 8/11/2006 | See Source »

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