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PLEADED GUILTY. COLONEL JAMES HIETT, 48, former supervisor of U.S. antidrug efforts in Colombia; to concealing knowledge that his wife laundered drug money; in Federal District Court, Brooklyn, N.Y. Hiett admitted paying bills with $25,000 in funds from smuggled heroin. He faces a maximum of three years in prison plus $250,000 in fines...
...less dangerous; truckers say it could lead to either more or less work; and everyone agrees it will soak the economy. The rule would limit truckers to one 12-hour shift per 24 hours. The current regulation allows for 10-hour shifts followed by eight hours' rest (or a maximum 16 hours per day of driving). Some drivers pile on the shifts in consecutive days to achieve their maximum 60-hour workweek within four days, so they can work a second job in the remaining days...
...that the rule would actually lead to increased driving hours over a two-week period and that 12-hour shifts will lead to more driving hours in which truckers are fatigued. The American Trucking Association, meanwhile, argues that truckers' livelihoods would be hurt because the regulation would limit their maximum hours - particularly on jobs that are time-sensitive. No matter how you slice it, the program would be costly both to drivers and to shipping companies. And that, of course, means higher prices to consumers, with one federal agency estimating that the economy will take a $3.4 billion hit over...
...clear the Bush program will help many of the working poor it targets. Offering a maximum benefit of $2,000 toward purchasing health insurance to families making no more than $30,000 a year, the Bush tax credit will in most cases fall well short of covering the whole bill. Out-of-pocket expenses for a family, depending on where it lives, may be several thousand dollars, still far more than the hard-pressed can afford. Bush advisers serve up some happy x factors to fill in the promise gap. Insurance companies, they say, will offer cheaper plans to accommodate...
...like draconian measures like attendance-taking and maximum allowable absences, as I still harbor the no-doubt antiquated view that college students, at least in the humanities and soft social sciences, should be interested in the life of the mind for its own sake," Hankins says...