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Some companies are going beyond griping to the logical next step, which is to hire willing and adaptable people and train them in the particular combination of skills they as employers require. "We are hiring out of nontraditional sources--community colleges, vocational schools, high school graduates who don't plan to go to college--and training for entry-level positions," reports George Newstrom, vice president of Electronic Data Systems, a company with 70,000 employees...
...Tony Karon (In No Particular Order...
What may make Loveline a particularly compelling alternative to, say, daytime TV's Jerry Springer, is its underlying "mission." Pinsky is obsessed with changing what he views as a culture of "broken-down interpersonal relationships" that lack intimacy. He calls the show a "sheep in wolf's clothing" that discourages sexual activity and encourages responsibility and connection in a hip, relatable context. Of particular concern to him is the rest of the media, which often portray sex as a simple physical act with no emotional consequences. Is he troubled about young teens having sex? Pinsky says a significant percentage...
...control the epidemic is with a preventive vaccine. So why hasn't one been developed? It's not for lack of trying. Dozens of vaccines have worked in monkeys and against laboratory strains of HIV. But the virus mutates so quickly that no vaccine based on any particular strain is effective against them...
...after you die? Believe it or not, the Supreme Court is only just getting around to tackling this basic, if morbid, legal issue. Prosecutor Ken Starr, wearing his Whitewater hat, asked the Justices Monday to require attorney James Hamilton to turn over notes relating to one ex-client in particular -- the late Vince Foster. Hamilton begged the court not to cut off the sacred attorney-client privilege at the moment of death: "People do care," he said, "about their reputations and family and friends...