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Fidjestol's tumble was a visual encapsulation of Norway's final week of ) preparation. Its meticulous planning was offset by Ulvang's provocative remarks and by a barrage of bad press and hostile poll results about high- living I.O.C. members -- who will have cars when even Lillehammer residents must ride buses or walk, who stay on expense account at the best hotel when ordinary Norwegians are priced out of most housing in Lillehammer and some are camping overnight outdoors, and who consume foods and beverages considerably grander than the communal cafeteria fare of the athletes. Some I.O.C. Pooh- Bahs were...
Work programs can benefit inmates and taxpayers alike. Minnesota's Sentencing to Service program has been putting nonviolent offenders to work in communities throughout the state since 1986. So far, it has logged 530,000 man-hours, and when program costs are offset against earnings and reductions in prison costs, the effort comes up $6 million in the black. "In work programs, inmates feel like they're paying back society," says Charles Colson, who established the Prison Fellowship after serving seven highly publicized months in prison. "Work restores their sense of dignity -- and it's useful to society...
...Women who drink caffeinated coffee all their lives are likely to suffer losses in bone density. Drinking a daily glass of milk, however, can offset those losses...
...offset of the fault is called the slip. In a medium-sized earthquake measuring six on the Richter scale, the average slip would be about half a meter...
...argues that the arrangement would affect the livelihood of many Japanese and South Korean rice farmers, threaten textile workers in Europe and the U.S., and create problems for factory workers at inefficient plants worldwide. Such losses should, in theory, be offset by new employment in export-related industries, where wages are usually higher than average -- 17% higher in the U.S, for example. An accord should also lower prices for consumers, who ultimately pay the hidden costs of protectionism. A U.S. family of four pays as much as $420 a year more for clothes than necessary, thanks to high U.S. textile...