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Companies have the legal right to monitor their employees' Web surfing, e-mail and instant messaging. Many do, whether they warn their workers or not--so don't count on any of it remaining private. Last month the University of Tennessee released more than 900 pages of archived e-mail between an administrator and a married college president in which the administrator wrote of her love for him and of her use of drugs and alcohol to deal with her unhappiness. Employers, including the New York Times and Dow Chemical, have fired workers for sending inappropriate e-mail...
...Cheney said the trouble turned up when he wore a halter cardiac monitor that detected "some minor periods, very short periods, one to two seconds each, of rapid heart rate," he said. "I can't feel anything when it happens, I am asymptotic, nothing shows externally with respect to that...
Memo to airlines: Stop whining and start performing, because Freni and Massport aren't backing down. For one hour at least twice a week, Freni and his staff monitor the 12 largest carriers at Logan in six specific areas of customer service, from curbside check-in to baggage claim. For example, passengers should spend no more than five minutes checking in at the gate. Each airline gets a copy of the report and a note from Massport pointing out problems. Airlines, say Massport officials, are generally responding well and have already taken such corrective steps as adding personnel at peak...
...without his head." That morning, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo was due to oversee Manila's Independence Day parade with its marching bands and martial displays, but first she checked with her "security cluster," a special team camped out in the ornate dining room of MalacaNang, the presidential palace, to monitor the three-week-old hostage crisis. Arroyo was told Sobero's body had not been found, but as the Philippine Chief of Staff General Diomedio Villanueva later admitted: "The possibility of (the killing) having happened is very, very high...
...needs the Congo?" some Westerners are tempted to ask as the U.N. prepares to dispatch 5,000 troops to monitor yet another fragile cease-fire in what appears to be an endless regional war. The answer, is just about everyone. Ever since Belgium's King Leopold colonized it as his personal commercial property in 1885, the Congo has fascinated the industrialized world - both with its treasures, and with the boundless venality of those who have pursued them...