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...organic antibacterial towelettes by Giovanni Cosmetics are a better choice if you just want to freshen up post-workout or before an impromptu date. Individual wipes are tucked in sleek silver wrapping and come in three scents, packaged in a 20-count, re-sealable variety bag: Peppermint Surge will perk you up en route to a meeting, Grapefruit Splash is refreshing before a dinner date, and Lavender Calm will leave you smelling good even if you're too wiped out to shower. Price: $11.95 for a mixed...
...Miley Cyrus slum it on Southwest. The privileged would include Bob Iger, Disney's CEO. The company spent more than $65,000 in 2007 on Iger's personal travel aboard corporate aircraft, and it requires him to fly corporate when he's on business. Disney extends the private-jet perk to other top officers as well as directors attending meetings and other company events. Nice. Yes, Iger is having a way better year than the Detroit Three - would you rather own High School Musical or Buick...
...Roughly 2.3 million public school teachers in the U.S. have tenure - a perk reserved for the noblest of professions (professors and judges also enjoy such rights). The problem with tenure, Rhee and other critics say, is that it inadvertently protects incompetent teachers from being fired. The Teach for America alumna, who oversees some 50,000 students and 5,000 teachers, has sparked controversy in the capital by proposing a new contract allowing teachers to earn as much as $130,000 a year if they forgo their tenure rights (a teacher's salary, on average, is less than $48,000; most...
...given widespread corporate turmoil, perk-slashing isn't likely to stop at 401(k) plans. In the Watson Wyatt survey, a fifth of companies said they planned to eliminate or reduce training, cancel holiday parties and tighten travel policies. "These are all things about which companies say, 'Could we live without this for another year?' " says Tarantello. "But you don't want people retiring on the job. You want their hearts and minds...
...Elsevier’s managing director of journal publishing, Martin Tanke, said that Elsevier also launched PERK, a publishing ethics toolkit for journal editors, and a reference tool to strengthen the peer review process...