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...rough and tumble of Australia's impending federal election campaign may seem like a picnic to Labor Party leader Mark Latham compared to the acute pancreatitis that flattened him in Sydney last week. Centered in the stomach and seeming to bore through to the spine, the pain of the ailment is "among the most severe . . . it can be overwhelming," says Ross Smith, associate professor of surgery at Sydney's Royal North Shore Hospital. Lying down worsens the agony; only doubling over offers any relief until painkillers take effect...
STRIKE THREAT After working without labor contracts for two years, New York City's police and fire fighters have threatened to strike during the convention. Hailed for their service to the city on 9/11, they now are denouncing Mayor Michael Bloomberg for stalled negotiations
...protestors began a blockade of the river to stop government plans to dam it. They arrived a month before the bulldozers, and in the following months 1,200 people were arrested in a campaign so successful that the river's fate became a national election issue. When Labor won federal office in 1983 it kept its election promise to stop the project, despite court challenges from the Tasmanian government. "A brown ditch, leech-ridden and unattractive to the majority of people," is how Liberal premier Robin Gray infamously described it then; the wires are the first relic...
Rollins highlighted Rosenzweig’s research on economic development in South Asia. Rosenzweig has documented wage discrimination against female workers in India and the Philippines. His recent work has examined the effects of low birth weight on labor productivity and lifetime earnings. He is also co-principal investigator of the New Immigrant Survey, an $18.8 million federally funded effort to provide demographic information on immigrants who enter the U.S. legally...
More importantly, Jeff won the city of St. Louis without a single ward endorsement. In five wards, independent Democratic machines endorse candidates in opposition to the dominant ward organization. Jeff didn’t get any of those endorsements either. In a city where organized labor still retains much of the clout of its heyday, Jeff didn’t get a single union endorsement. The local paper, which has a monopoly on political coverage, endorsed another candidate. So did the African-American paper. Jeff had almost no support among the city’s powerful elected officials. For most...