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...local employees and their families. As of last week, Lafarge had accounted for only 294 of its 625 workers based at the plant. The company responded quickly. A day after the disaster, a Lafarge team based in Indonesia flew search, rescue and medical personnel to Banda Aceh to hunt for the missing and care for survivors. The team brought 450 employees and their kin to emergency relief centers and hired trucks and planes to ship food, water and medicine to the area. The Paris headquarters donated €767,000 to affected countries, and continues to collect contributions from...
Tennis hopeful Jamie Hunt, 16, felt he could not become a world-class junior player while attending a regular school. The international circuit has players on the road 50% of the time?and it's hard to focus on your backhand when you're worrying about being on time for homeroom. So in 2003 Hunt, who hones his ground strokes at Elite TNT Tennis Academy in April Sound, Texas, enrolled for academics in the $9,750-a-year University of Miami Online High School (UMOHS), a virtual school that caters to athletes. "The online school gives me the flexibility...
Tennis hopeful Jamie Hunt, 16, felt he could not become a world-class junior player while attending a regular school. The international circuit has players on the road 50% of the time - and it's hard to focus on your backhand when you're worrying about being on time for homeroom. So in 2003 Hunt, who hones his ground strokes at Elite TNT Tennis Academy in April Sound, Texas, enrolled for academics in the $9,750-a-year University of Miami Online High School (UMOHS), a virtual school that caters to athletes. "The online school gives me the flexibility...
Unscripted is far better done than K Street, maybe because its "real" people--actors like Hank Azaria and Bonnie Hunt, directors like Garry Marshall and Sam Mendes--are used to Hollywood fakery. It does, however, dip into show-biz-is-a-bummer clich??s, especially with Jen and Bryan. One story line has another actor horning in on Bryan's auditions, a plot recently explored on NBC's Joey--not the kind of comparison HBO generally angles...
...black magic budget hat. Because during the New Deal, the current Social Security system was implemented as a pay-as-you-go plan, in which the current workers pay for the benefits of the retirees, an attempt to privatize Social Security will put the government in a hunt to find $2 trillion to provide benefits for retirees of today and the near future. In a time when every American child is born into $25,000 of debt, with higher taxes ruled out and spending cuts unlikely, adding a $2 trillion transition cost to our national debt is fiscally reprehensible...