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...been able to pass along an important piece of advice: What's good for business is not necessarily good for America. For Dodson and her subjects, American corporations are amoral entities that continue to build their wealth on the backs of the nation's low-income workers. Helping the less fortunate in this context becomes a form of civil and corporate disobedience, and Dodson, a professor of sociology at Boston College, isn't lacking in examples. There's the supervisors who tweak time cards so that employees can take care of their kids, the school nurse who keeps cots...
Chris Farrell, the economics editor for public radio's Marketplace Money, is the most optimistic of the lot. "Profligacy is out. Frugality is in," he declares in his inspirational self-help book, The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better. Farrell is so enthusiastic in his mission to promote a more sensible lifestyle that he makes the reader want to burn a credit card. Save more, pay off your debts and borrow less, and you can join Farrell's brigade...
...some ways, Lit is her most intimate book, full of fallibilities and acceptance of responsibility and viewed at more immediate narrative proximity (although she must be close to 20 years sober now). Karr is less a character and more a living, breathing being. And as a mother to a son, Dev, she is both stronger and more vulnerable. At one point during an attempt to quit drinking cold turkey, she describes his toddler hand on her back as she vomits; his innocent query "Did you get a bad food?" wrecks...
...aqua theater at your disposal. A luxury suite can put you out $7,609 a week, or $1,087 per day. Capacity across the industry has increased--15 ships have launched this year, including Carnival's Dream, and 12 set sail next year--so there are deals of less than $60 per day out there. "Hotels are shaking in their boots," says Peter Yesawich, CEO of Y Partnership, a marketing firm, "and they should...
...study also found that men who drink large amounts of coffee are more likely to smoke, exercise less, and be overweight—factors that have been shown to increase the risk of prostate cancer. Wilson said these findings added support to her belief that coffee itself—and not, for instance, the life style choices related to the drink—may be responsible for the link between coffee consumption and the lower risk of prostate cancer...