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COLLEGE PARK, Md.--Faculty at the University of Maryland at College Park, dissatisfied with their low salaries, are falsely reporting competitive teaching offers from other institutions in an effort to get pay raises from a special $500,000 recruitment and retention fund...
Requests for copies have come from as far away as Seattle, Wash., and as close as Winthrop. Councilor David Wylie, who, along with councilor Saundra Graham, originally proposed the unconventional brochure, said Monday that a number of cities, including Baltimore, Maryland, Sacramento, California, and Madison Wisc., have expressed interest in using Cambridge's pamphlet as a model for their own civil defense efforts...
...using these drugs are taking ten to 20 pills at once." In other words, they can ingest the caffeine of dozens of cups of coffee in one gulp. In the past two years, look-alikes have been implicated in the deaths of at least 14 people in New York, Maryland, Michigan, New Mexico, California and Illinois...
...Interior James Watt plans to open Davenport's beloved Matagorda Island Wildlife Refuge in Texas to developers. "Watt can't do that!" fumes the courtly Davenport, his straw boater slightly askew. "It's outrageous and unconscionable!" So furious is he that, "as secretary of the Maryland Audubon Society, I'm seriously thinking of demanding Watt's resignation in our next newsletter...
AGRIBUSINESS. From the cucumber patches of Maryland through the orange groves of Florida to the tomato fields of California, thousands of farm workers live in squalid shacks with communal latrines and no running water. Fruit and vegetable growers assert that they pay the minimum wage, but the money is often funneled through labor contractors who actually hire the workers. In many cases, these so-called crew chiefs, who are usually immigrants themselves, deduct exorbitant amounts from worker salaries for food, rent and transportation...