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...dropped them off just outside Jerusalem's main food market, and they walked into the crowded center of the bazaar, carrying attache cases. At 1:10 p.m., positioned 100 ft. apart and apparently in eye contact, one of them, standing in a covered lane, detonated a lethal parcel containing about 20 lbs. of TNT packed with rusty screws and nails. Three seconds later, the second man exploded his suitcase bomb along an open street crammed with lunchtime shoppers. "This is madness," cried an anguished onlooker amid the tangle of human limbs, blackened flesh, crushed fruit and building rubble. The blasts...
ATLANTA: Maybe it was the joy of lugging wrapped-up Stair Masters up five flights of stairs. Or the thrill of dressing like a brown paper package. Whatever the reason, if you have fond memories of your days as a part-time worker for United Parcel Service, the Big Brown wants to hear from...
...half years back, won't be stepping up to this plate any time soon. It's enough to make you go back to the U.S. Postal Service. First a FedEx jet crashes and burns to a crisp in Newark, leaving all packages on board well done. Now a United Parcel Service walkout has managers handling a small fraction of usual deliveries, as the stalemate becomes a stage for the Labor vs. Corporate America battle over the use of part-time workers to cut costs and stay competitive in the way-new global economy...
ATLANTA: As shippers across the country scrambled to find an alternative package delivery system, 185,000 United Parcel Service Teamsters walked off the job at on minute after midnight Monday morning after negotiators failed to agree on a new contract. The strike is expected to upset delivery service to thousands of businesses nationwide and will cost the company an estimated $50 million a day. Federal Express and the U.S. Postal Service have made contingency plans to take up the slack, but say they may have difficulty handling the additional load. Adding to the delivery giant's difficulties is a promise...
...night meetings of the local Gamblers Anonymous chapter testify. Among those telling their stories: a former electrician who says he would start arguments with his wife "so I could just leave the house" to gamble; a convenience-store manager whose addiction led her to embezzle $18,000; and a parcel-service driver, Marge Alexander, whose compulsion destroyed a life of on-time mortgage payments and perfect work attendance. Two of the three started behind the video-poker machines; all three ended up contemplating suicide. But Belleville remains oddly immune to the cost of its new pastime. In May a reporter...