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...other end of the spectrum are businesses that have planned for the flu but don't necessarily know how far they can go legally. "The question I'm hearing a lot is, Can employers send workers home involuntarily?" says Daniel P. O'Meara, a labor lawyer at Montgomery, McCracken, in Berwyn, Pa. The Occupational Safety and Health Act contains a general duties clause that specifies that employers must keep a safe workplace, which can be used to justify sending a sick employee home, he says. In this sluggish economy, however, resistance is to be expected...
...bless Michael Moore and anyone else who wants to pick up a camera and try to tell a story. It is a lot harder than you think...
...Irish-born psychiatrist and epidemiologist says he sees a lot of adults with ASD in his own clinical practice, and "they have so much difficulty saying what their own difficulties are." He suspects that this lack of insight and inability to communicate emotional issues also reduces their ability to seek professional help...
...moment, especially its frightening murder rate, and watched tens of thousands of its residents, known as Cariocas, exult on Copacabana Beach, dancing to deafening music in tanga bikinis and drinking Skol and Brahma beer around a massive banner that read, "Rio Loves You." "This will bring a lot of investment to Rio," said Andressa Gomes, 19, a student teacher who came to Copacabana to "cheer, pray and celebrate." Said Lindenberg Araújo, 62, a retired telecom engineer, "I am proud to be a Brazilian and a Carioca. This should bring us more security as well as a big party...
...urgent issues that Rio and Brazil alike have to address during the next seven years. Even Copacabana revelers like Gomes remember the holes in Rio's efforts when it hosted the Pan-American Games in 2007. "They didn't do all they said we would do and a lot of what they did do was left to rot after the games ended," she says, adding, "I think the elite will benefit from this more than most." Says Sotero: "The Olympics give us the challenge we need to keep on the right path...