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...York Times: "An article on Aug. 2 about older alumni who have been helped by university career counselors referred imprecisely to comments by a 1990 graduate of Lehigh University who lost his job in February...he is David Monson, not Munson, and he was speaking generally - not about himself - when he said that newly unemployed people sometimes mope around the house in sweatpants...
...going to add extra sugar that is completely unnecessary to improve the taste so that kids will drink more of our product." And since more than half of all flavored milk in the U.S. is sold to children in schools, she says, there's a lot to be lost if chocolate milk gets kicked out of the cafeteria. (Watch a TIME video on a bacon chocolate...
...strike gone ahead as planned on Dec. 22. That's cash - and cachet - the struggling carrier can ill-afford to lose. Tumbling first-class passenger numbers and a ballooning fuel bill left the airline with a $656 million pretax loss in the 12 months ending March 31. It lost plenty more in the first half of this year too. The airline's $6 billion pension deficit, meanwhile, is among the biggest...
Vice President Joe Biden deserves one as well, for disagreement with the boss above and beyond the call of duty. Biden may have lost the Afghanistan argument, but he surely shaped it - for the better. I would also like to pause a moment to congratulate the Vice President on his gaffes. The political consultants' playbook may not have a place for a pol who admits there is a "30% chance we're going to get it wrong" on any issue, as Biden did on the President's economic plan, but the Vice President's arrant candor is a quality...
...June, I met a gentle and courageous man who lost an election but won a nation - Mir-Hossein Mousavi. The Teddy goes not just to him, but to the legions of patriotic Iranians I met in the streets - and especially to those in prison now, like Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who was forced to "confess" to "crimes" he didn't commit in a ridiculous show trial. The Iranian people, unfailingly gracious to this foreigner, deserve a far better government than the one they have...