Word: laboral
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Known as oxytocin (not to be confused with the painkiller OxyContin), the naturally occurring hormone is best known for controlling contractions during labor, but it also plays a key role in other fundamental human urges - including the desire to connect with others. "Somehow, the peptide increases trust, or alters the way individuals see each other," says Tom Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health...
...oxytocin-deficient among us, the hormone is commercially available on the Internet - new mothers sometimes use it to trigger the release of breast milk (and nearly half of all women who give birth in the U.S. intravenously receive Pitocin, a commercial version of oxytocin, to induce labor). But some entrepreneurs are already touting oxytocin as a shyness cure. One website hawks a "trust elixir," an oxytocin-laced perfume that its manufacturers say will make its wearers seem more trustworthy to others - and vice versa...
...investigation of a $1.2 million aircraft parts contract that Nielson's company signed with the federal government. Despite the image presented by quaintly dressed mothers and bucolic family life, the FLDS is a well-run business enterprise, Brower says, big in construction and trucking, relying on cheap labor provided by the community's ill-educated young men. "They know how to read a tape measure," he says...
...Washington Department Of Labor: Not Working Two reports by the Government Accountability Office slammed the U.S. Department of Labor, claiming its Wage and Hour Division regularly mishandled complaints of improper payment by employers and delayed its investigations--leaving thousands of workers unable to recoup lost wages...
...TIME/Rockefeller Foundation survey showed that the U.S.'s youngest workers are, stunningly, its most pessimistic about the nation's economic future, and half of them are uninsured. Equipping them with tools to bolster their economic security takes on special urgency. In response, an innovative start-up, working with labor organizations, targets health-care counseling, savings, credit and other low-cost, portable products to the needs of these younger workers...