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...Bergeron and Laurie Hibberd are new on the job, but already they are the most laid-back personalities on morning television. While camera operators and stagehands wander in and out of shots, the co-hosts of Breakfast Time, a new morning show on the fX cable network, sidle from room to room in their spacious, apartment-like set in New York City. When not trading quips with a wisecracking hand puppet, they introduce segments that make Good Morning America look like The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour: a visit to an Oklahoma ostrich farm; an interview with a Florida man who makes furniture...
...LEATHER BELTS, LEATHER belts, big bargain price!" shouted Chen Zhong, hoisting a fistful of the articles in question on the edge of Ritan Park in Beijing. Chen (not his real name) is one of China's new entrepreneurs -- but hardly by choice. A year ago, he was laid off by the state-owned leather factory where he worked for more than 25 years and was given a stipend of $10.50 a month, less than half his previous salary and not enough to support / his family of four. The leather plant is half shut and bankrupt because it cannot find...
These are hard times for workers in the world's largest officially communist state. The "iron rice bowl" of guaranteed employment has been broken, and in the past year millions of Chinese from the cash-strapped state sector have been fired, laid off or furloughed at half their salaries. In 1993 in Heilongjiang province alone 2 million workers lost their jobs. Millions of others are being exploited by China's new private entrepreneurs -- overworked, physically abused and paid less than the minimum wage. Working conditions are frequently unsafe; the number of workers killed or injured in mine disasters and industrial...
...buried in Roselawn, Indiana, last Monday morning, with three crucifixes pinned to her pink dress and a favorite rattle bracelet lacing her wrist. At the flower-strewn gravesite, her small white casket was placed beside that of her sister, who was laid to rest 10 months earlier...
...current rebellion started when Pearl Jam laid plans for a low-cost tour their young fans could afford. They wanted their tickets to cost no more than $18.50, with service fees held to $1.80. Ticketmaster balked, arguing that it must charge $2 or more to cover its costs. Pearl Jam hired Sullivan & Cromwell, the prestigious Manhattan law firm. In a memorandum filed with the Justice Department, the lawyers claimed that Ticketmaster's control over tickets and its exclusive contracts with most of the leading concert arenas constitute anticompetitive behavior that enables it to prop up prices. Soul Asylum, another popular...