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Because graduate student workers are seldom full-time, they often are not covered by the policies protecting other employees. Mitchell sees "casualization" as the major problem facing Yale and other institutions currently...
While the students at UCLA have not received benefits like those at Ann Arbor or Wisconsin, they recently won a major legal battle when UCLA TAs and other graduate teachers voted to be represented by an affiliate...
...turn out to be eggs so much as ?how eggs are consumed in the U.S. -- as in eggs with bacon,? says Gorman. If people insist on eating their eggs with meats, whole milk or doughnuts, they will be heading for trouble. And the latest study does include one major caveat for egg lovers: Stay away from them if you are diabetic. For those with diabetes, eating eggs increases the risk of heart disease...
...April 1998 incident in which two white state troopers fired 11 shots into a van carrying three African-Americans and one Hispanic. ?This is a systematic problem that everyone in the minority community believes is a well-established police practice,? says TIME correspondent Elaine Rivera. ?Finally, here is a major acknowledgment that race profiling isn?t just a complaint by a few people...
...problem for many people, for most African-Americans, ?this will not come as a bombshell,? says TIME reporter Harriet Barovick. ?Many will remain skeptical that the mere revelation will bring any immediate changes.? Perhaps. But Governor Whitman has a record of acting decisively when she focuses on a major problem. And the Department of Justice is now also looking into the situation and has asked police departments from around the country to report back on what their traffic-stop practices actually are. If more smoking guns turn up, racial profiling could quickly become the next big issue in the racial...