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Nobody who worked at the Imperial Food Products plant in Hamlet, N.C., had much love for the place. The job -- cooking, weighing and packing fried chicken parts for fast-food restaurants -- was hot, greasy and poorly paid. The conveyor belts moved briskly, and the few rest breaks were so strictly...
The disaster brought to light the mostly invisible body count of the American workplace. By some estimates, more than 10,000 workers die each year from on-the-job injuries -- about 30 every day. Perhaps 70,000 more are permanently disabled. The fire also exposed the weakness of measures for...
Labor organizers and workers' rights groups are calling for stronger measures. Some want an independent investigative body, like the National Transportation Safety Board, with the power to examine accident sites and set in motion industry-wide changes to save lives in the future. Another proposal in the Ford bill is...
But the time when such halfway measures will no longer suffice is rapidly approaching. For the first time last year, Arizona started taking much of its share of river water for fast-growing Phoenix and Tucson, leaving its larger neighbor to face the possibility of a short supply. Within California...
MEXICO. The Colorado has long been a prickly subject between the U.S. and its neighbor, and at the moment tempers south of the border are steaming again. The current flash point is Southern California's plan to line with concrete the All-American Canal, which carries water to the Imperial...