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More and more low-wage workers like Gibbons are finding hope for a better life as the living-wage movement gains momentum. Devoted to the principle that people who work full time should not live in poverty, the living-wage campaign won its first success in Baltimore, Md., in 1994, and has since spread to 81 other cities and counties--including Boston and Santa Fe, N.M.--as well as such institutions as universities and school boards. Living-wage proposals are pending in dozens of other localities, from Santa Monica, Calif., to New York City...
...pushed off the land by rich landowners who wanted more stables for their horses? Would the peasants eventually revolt and take over the stables? What a pity there's no precedent for revolutions aimed at media stars, America's version of the ruthless, greedy ruling classes. PATTI LOWERY Baltimore, Md...
...Neill, a plant pathologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is no slouch when it comes to computers. Nor does she shy away from home-improvement projects, having handled the electrical work for an addition to the house she shares with her husband and two children in Silver Spring, Md. But when O'Neill, 54, tried to set up a home network so that her family's four computers could share printers and Internet access, she met her match...
Leonid M. Ozernoy, a Russian physicist who fought the Soviet government for the freedom to leave the U.S.S.R. and teach at Harvard, died Feb. 28 in a Silver Spring, Md., hospital...
According to his family, the resident of University Park, Md., died of complications related to cancer...