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...right. Now that Donald Trump's The Apprentice is the season's highest-rated new show, reality TV is discovering what sitcoms have known for decades: people love to watch other people work. In the real world, workers may be worried about outsourcing, downsizing and on-the-job surveillance, but on TV, cutthroat, anxious work under surveillance is becoming big entertainment--perhaps in the same way that horror movies and roller coasters make anxiety fun. For Fox reality chief Mike Darnell (who's making Casino, about working in, you guessed it, a casino, with Apprentice producer Mark Burnett), the series...
...wants to take advantage of the health-care boom needs medical training. For potential job switchers there is some good news: demand in hospitals for nontechnical positions like billing and information technology will be strong over the next few years, with vacancy rates from 5% to 10%. And laid-off middle managers could transfer their experience to health care; hospitals will need 123,000 more managers by 2010, a 32% increase in their ranks from 2001. Many entry-level jobs in health care also provide on-the-job training...
...months now, Americans have been engaged in a crash course on Islam, its geography and its followers. It is not a subject we were previously interested in, but 9/11 left no choice, and the U.S. military in two countries continues its on-the-job training in sheiks and ayatullahs, Sunni customs and Shi'ite factionalism. Yet there is one group that has been thinking--passionately--about Muslims for more than a decade. Its army is weaponless, its soldiers often unpaid, its boot camps places like the Queens classroom. It has no actual connection with the U.S. government (except possibly...
...that weren't enough, men tend to work in more dangerous settings than women, and thus account for 90% of on-the-job fatalities, mostly in agriculture. And men drive more rollover-prone SUVs (contributing to last year's 42,850 traffic deaths, the highest since 1990, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) and suffer more motorcycle fatalities (up sharply over the past five years, thanks in part to the repeal of state helmet laws...
...thousand miles from ground zero, Houston Mayor Lee Brown tried to use the attack as a ticket to re-election. "Now is not the time for on-the-job training in the mayor's office," said Brown, who ran police departments in New York, Atlanta and Houston and served as Bill Clinton's drug czar before being elected mayor in 1997. But voters were more interested in knowing why he hadn't done more about gridlock and smog. Brown's credentials didn't keep him from a runoff with city councilman Orlando Sanchez, who was in rompers when Brown...