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More and more men are heeding the call, taking up occupations traditionally dominated by females. Searching for more meaningful work or simply desperate for a paycheck in a sluggish economy, they are applying in increasing numbers for jobs or training in nursing, child care, housekeeping, teaching. The jobs are often crying out for more applicants, and offer solid, if unspectacular, pay. There's a downside, though, including cutesy nicknames like "murses" for male nurses and "mannies" for nannies. And pop-culture stereotyping is hard to shake. Consider Ben Stiller's ridiculed nurse in Meet the Parents, Freddie Prinze...
...smaller paycheck is just the beginning of the adjustment for many families. Some live too far from a military base to take easy advantage of the benefits of military life. In Hammond, La., if Janet Wright wants to save on tax-free groceries at a military commissary while her husband serves in California, she has to load a cooler into her car and drive at least an hour. "What you save in tax-free," she says with a sigh, "you've just spent in gas." The families of activated reservists qualify for the same health plan as active-duty families...
...Maybe we had the upper hand,” McKean concedes, “but I wouldn’t have thought we won until I saw a worker’s paycheck with higher numbers on it.” How much of an effect does he think the media attention had on the sit-in’s resolution, which ended with an administrative commitment to investigate employees’ wages. “It wasn’t simply Harvard looking bad, it was they were losing control of the campus. We were building an enormous amount...
DIED. JOHNNY PAYCHECK, 64, outlaw country singer known equally for his blaring, bad-ass anthems of love and revenge and the real-life troubles behind his surly image; in Nashville, Tenn., where he had been bedridden in a nursing home with asthma and emphysema. Of his dozens of hits on more than 30 albums, PayCheck, born Donald Eugene Lytle (in the '60s he took the name of a boxer KO'd by Joe Louis), was best known for the 1977 workingman's chant Take This Job and Shove It. After a battle with drugs and alcohol, bankruptcy and a prison...
...DIED. DONALD EUGENE LYTLE A.K.A. JOHNNY PAYCHECK, 64, hell-raising country singer best remembered for his 1977 working-class anthem Take This Job and Shove It; in Nashville, Tennessee. Paycheck recorded 70 albums and had more than two dozen other hit singles, including Don't Take Her,She's All I Got and Slide Off Your Satin Sheets. When he renounced his wild ways in his 50s, he said of his fans: "They still remember me as that crazy, good-time-Charlie honky-tonker, and I don't tell 'em any different." DIED. LILIANE DE ROTHSCHILD, late 80s, quiet member...