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...Meanwhile, the UAW has allowed new employees to be hired at lower wages. Under the 2007 contracts it signed with GM, Ford and Chrysler, new blue collar workers start at $14 per hour, rather than the $28 per hour paid senior employees. New workers also get a 401(k), instead of a defined-benefit pension plan, and a restricted menu of health-care plans...
...vice president of R&D at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) biologicals. "It's an extra challenge with malaria due to the complexity of the parasite, its ability to evade the immune system and our almost constant exposure to it." The result: 247 million malaria cases worldwide and almost 1 million deaths per year - the overwhelming majority of them infants and small children. (See TIME's A-Z Health Guide...
...Schuster also said that when there is only one teacher per subject at a school, the opportunities for collaborative work among teachers are limited as well. Some full-time teachers are also asked to teach more than one subject or grade, making it difficult to hire and maintain qualified staff, especially because teaching multiple subjects requires multiple credentials...
Holiday Helper. Boston-area Hotel Indigo's special "Escape the In-Laws" package needs no explanation. You get a room, breakfast and a "Family Decompression Kit," complete with aspirin, aromatherapy oil and a bottle of wine, starting at $129 per night. Through Jan. 14, 2009. 399 Grove Street, Newton...
Party Like It's 1899. Sixteen of New York City's top-rated restaurants, including Per Se, Adour and Chanterelle, will serve multicourse Victorian banquets of each chef's interpretation, from January to March 2009, and donate some of the proceeds to charity. Café des Artistes will recreate the dinner you may have drooled over in the film Babette's Feast, while French seafood restaurant Le Bernadin will do all things de la mer, complete with top hats, candles, and "the rich sauces of the day," says chef Eric Ripert. Check the Zagat Guide's website for dates, menus...