Word: monthlies
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...citizens of beleaguered Baltimore, channel surfing this season is an exercise in confusion. Is that the mayoral debate or America's Most Wanted? Of the 27 original candidates for mayor, six have criminal-arrest records, three have filed for bankruptcy, and one is a convict. Last month Dorothy Jennings, who entered the race on the strength of her claim to be "a churchgoer with 30 years experience in education," was spotted by the police during a televised forum and hauled in to face a burglary rap. (A trial is set for December...
...Kosovo. Meanwhile, the prevalence of open-air drug dealing has made NO LOITERING signs as common as STOP signs. Baltimore, which has a population of 630,000, has sunk under the depressing triple crown of urban degradation: middle-income residents are fleeing at a rate of 1,000 a month; the murder rate has been more than three times as high as New York City's; and 1 of every 10 citizens is a drug addict. Government officials dispute the last claim. "It's more like 1 in 8," says veteran city councilwoman Rikki Spector. "And we've probably lost...
...support real-time farm auctions. Farmers who visit the site can buy and sell entire lots of cattle via digital video feeds and still images. They can also get chemicals, grain and feed commodities online. On average, says Zaitz, Farms.com has more than 40,000 unique visitors a month. During the past year, the site has held in excess of $2 million worth of auctions of livestock and commodities. Zaitz, who has invested more than $1 million of his own money in his venture, expects revenues to increase tenfold this year...
...place. But what do your kids think? A new book by Ellen Galinsky of the Families and Work Institute looks at how kids assess their parents' efforts to have it all. The book, Ask the Children: What America's Children Really Think About Working Parents, which comes out next month, shows that children keenly feel their parents' level of satisfaction or discontent in balancing work and family and reflect it in their own attitudes...
States are tightening skimpy federal rules that have been in place since 1991. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act requires companies to keep a list of people who request not to receive such calls, and gives consumers the right to sue telemarketers $500 for each violation. Last month a South Carolina man took AT&T to small-claims court for repeat calls, and was awarded...