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...start their own businesses are crushed by corporate and other taxes. If they can hire support staff, these small one- or two-person businesses in many cases have to fund benefits that the employers themselves do not have: sick leave, paid four-week vacations, holidays, maternity leave, a 35-hour workweek and more. In a turnabout of the exploited and the exploiter, small-business employers feel used, and many dream of the day when they too can be employees. That is no way to get an economy moving. Somehow governments and voters can't make the leap of imagination...
...MUCH TV TURNS YOUR TUSH TO MUSH Two studies in the Journal of Pediatrics put hard numbers on the risks associated with watching more than the recommended maximum of two hours of TV a day. In one study, every extra hour of weekend TV at age 5 increased by 7% the chances of being obese at age 30. In a second study, 11-year-old girls who watched more than two hours a day were more than twice as likely to be overweight as girls who tuned in less...
Patrick Fitzgerald, 44, came to Washington not as a politician but as a prosecutor, the archetypical kind. When he announced his first indictment in the byzantine two-year-old CIA- leak investigation on Friday, he spoke for an hour, almost entirely without notes. It was easy to understand why juries like him. He sounded reasonable, and his plain respect for the law wasn't marred by sanctimony. As if making an opening statement at trial, he laid out the facts clearly and carefully--and then gracefully elevated the rhetoric. "When a Vice President's chief of staff is charged with...
Like so many other Americans who work 100-hour weeks, Fitzgerald was born to immigrants. Patrick Sr. and Tillie Fitzgerald, both of County Clare, Ireland, raised four children in Flatbush, Brooklyn. Patrick Sr. was a doorman in Manhattan at a building on East 75th Street, just off Madison Avenue, and he rarely missed a day of work. In the summer, Fitzgerald worked as a doorman too, a few blocks south of his father. But from a young age, Fitzgerald was on track to join the crowds of Upper East Siders swishing past him. He attended Regis High School, a scholarship...
...York State set up a program called Seniors Out Speaking to attract recent retirees who would like to develop a useful new field of expertise. The center gives the retirees intense training in the complex array of available Medicare plans, after which they can choose to give monthly hour-long presentations at various community venues. Or they can sign up for "Medicare Minute," returning regularly to the same senior center with a different five-minute speech on an aspect of the new insurance law. "It's appealing to boomers," says volunteer director Betty Duggan, "getting up and being an expert...