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...more than 80% of cribs in U.S. hotels may be unsafe. Spot checks revealed a variety of hazards, including cribs with soft bedding or adult-size sheets (both known suffocation risks) and cribs with gaps between the mattress and frame that could entrap a baby. Also, about half of mesh-sided cribs checked had holes big enough for infants to get stuck in. What to do? Call ahead and insist that cribs are in good repair...
Whether they'll land on their feet depends on whether the two companies can mesh their organizations, persuade Wall Street that the deal makes sense and endure the federal regulatory reviews and potential legal challenges of the next several months...
...down. We can't stop right in the middle--too confusing. (Oh, to have a bus!) We drive to the end, where the throng thins. We nod to a woman, and she jogs forward and gets in. Dayami is about 30, lipsticked, in tight black jeans with a black mesh shirt over a sports bra. She's a doctor, on her way to pick up her daughter at school. We ask if it's hard to get medicine. After all, on the way from Havana, a billboard had read: YANKEE EMBARGO: GENOCIDE AGAINST CUBA. She says no, not really...
Daily, weapons of mass destruction are deployed in seas the world over: long lines spanning up to 80 miles, dangling scores of thousands of baited hooks; enormous nets, nearly invisible in water. These indiscriminate killers drown everything, including birds and mammals, that takes the bait or blunders into the mesh. The unwanted--a quarter of everything caught--is discarded, left to rot or, sometimes, taken aboard to be ground into meal and fertilizer...
Recruiters admit that already knowing people in the firm can be a point in a candidate's favor. It helps executives determine whether a new hire will mesh with a company's culture...