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...lower-paying sector is not losing future employees because of salary size: education. Nearly 11 percent of respondents said they would go into education if finances were not an issue, the same percentage when finances were considered...
...case of good intentions going astray. The Williamson County Regional Animal Shelter in the suburbs north of Austin was facing a problem voiced by shelters across the country - an abundance of black cats and dogs. And so management decided to run a special promotion offering lower adoption fees during "Black Is Beautiful" week. Unfortunately, the promo campaign was scheduled for the same week Texans were set to celebrate Juneteenth, heralding the anniversary of the arrival in 1867 of the delayed news of the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery. Local civil rights leaders were critical and chagrined shelter officials...
...moderate, supervised drinking within families seems to be the most promising approach, on the basis of the North Carolina study. Italy and Spain report very low rates of alcohol dependence or abuse (less than 1% and 2.8%, respectively) compared with the U.S., where the rate is 7.8%, slightly lower than France's 8.7%. (All the figures are from the World Health Organization...
...CITYIt's very daunting. The bar was set so high with Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant that we tried to take some of the pressure off of ourselves; we knew the template was great but we had no delusions of trying to improve upon the original. We tried to lower everybody's expectations, frankly, tried to set the bar within reason, because there was no way I was going to recreate anything close to what Ricky Gervais did. So I tried to take that pressure off of myself, and just base [Michael Scott] on the essence of the character that...
...leadership is a target. Tsvangirai is arrested on a weekly, sometimes daily basis, and on June 12 MDC Secretary-General Tendai Biti was detained at Harare airport and charged with treason. But it is lower-ranking activists and ordinary Zimbabweans who have borne the brunt. The MDC claims 25,000 people have fled the violence, thousands of its supporters have been beaten, hundreds hospitalized, and 66 killed, while 200 more are missing. (Reporting restrictions mean the figures cannot be verified.) A doctor who examined the bodies of two dead MDC activists tells TIME their tongues had been mutilated. In Bhegedhe...