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...Patricia Alston, who works at a Baltimore catering company, would agree. Seven years after that city's living wage was enacted, she has had her first beach vacation and is poised to become a homeowner. "The living wage contributed a great deal to my ability to get the house," she says. Like Jerome Gibbons, the Los Angeles airport worker, Alston has seen her job transformed from a dead end to a vehicle of hope. For all the costs and uncertainties of the living wage, that may be the strongest argument in its favor. --With reporting by Alice Jackson Baughn/New Orleans...
...DIED. PATRICIA REIF, 72, rebellious ex-nun who in 1984 founded the nation's first graduate-degree program in feminist spirituality; in Claremont, Calif. In the tumultuous late 1960s Reif and her sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary shed their habits to engage more directly in public service. When the church rejected their reforms, 300 renounced their vows and left to form an experimental lay community...
...told that the region could be dangerous. The same can be said of the insurance industry, which has been ratcheting up rates since the U.S. terror attacks, in the face of wildly higher demand for political-risk coverage. "No light bulb went off on Sept. 11," says Patricia Skold, who is head of CHUBB GROUP's political risk worldwide and has experience working for the U.S. intelligence community. "We've always been aware of the risk." But some of Chubb's new customers and those of its competitors suddenly had their awareness raised. Chubb, which has employed terrorism experts...
...with so many things in medicine, doctors and patients are left making decisions based on incomplete information. "We have to be honest about saying that [routine] mammography may not save your life," says Dr. Patricia Ganz, a professor at the schools of medicine and public health at UCLA. But it can give a woman who discovers she has breast cancer options she might not otherwise have. And who wouldn't want that...
According to Senior Associate Director of Athletics Patricia W. Henry, space analyses of such a large magnitude simply do not normally run on schedule...