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...Pilots and government officials say a program to put thousands of Federal Air Marshals on flights has been hobbled by insufficient training and poor-quality agents on loan from other agencies. During the Salt Lake City Olympics, for example, two temporary marshals boarded a high-risk flight in the western U.S. According to an airline security official, one of them grabbed a blanket, put his seat back and fell into a deep sleep with his weapon unprotected in a bag at his feet. His partner managed to stay awake, but left his seat to use the bathroom - without rousing...
...agree the ATM experience will be narrowly tailored to keep the line moving, limiting customers' choices to, say, a couple of flower arrangements or a short list of CDs. The new platforms can also restrict activities at certain times--for example, to prevent people from filling out loan applications at 5 p.m. on payday. Ray Gilmore, 16, recently tried to cash his first paycheck at an ATM in a 7-Eleven in Austin, Texas. After spending several minutes trying to sign up for the service, the high school student called a help line and was told he needed a valid...
Consider Christina Caldwell. The Idaho native, 28, graduated from Pomona College in California, landed a job with the Federal Direct Student Loan Program in Washington, and almost immediately started socking money into the savings plan offered her at work--the government equivalent of a 401(k). Within a couple of years she accumulated more than $15,000. Not bad on a salary that started...
Where an individual farmer cannot sell his small crop to Nestle or Starbucks, a middleman can collect enough coffee to sell. Many of these coyotes, however, are manipulative—acting simultaneously as loan sharks for the small coffee growing families in a manner reminiscent of sharecroppers in antebellum America...
...Fogg Art Museum will unveil a rare exhibition this Saturday of the earliest works by French turn-of-the century painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec—including works on loan from some of the world’s most renowned art museums...