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...labor market, where unemployment is currently at 10.4% and at a staggering 18.6% in the eastern states, is not likely to change soon." Goecke expects the most popular destinations will be the Netherlands (where the construction industry is in need of skilled workers) and Scandinavia (where medical personnel are needed), as well as Spain, Austria and Switzerland. Even among Germans who do have jobs, the atmosphere of pessimism and insecurity is driving people away. Berlin nurse Michael Günther was so "thoroughly disappointed by the government" and the "declining standards" of the country's financially ailing health care system...
...feds are having more problems with air-security personnel. At a hearing on Capitol Hill last week, aviation-security experts and Congressmen were surprised when it was disclosed that the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the agency that protects the nation's air-traffic system, had to fire more than 1,200 airport screeners because security checks had turned up problems, including felony convictions, in their backgrounds. The TSA also admitted that it still has not completed background checks on 22,000 screeners, almost half the 52,000 screeners who are supposed to be helping guard the country's aviation system...
...security system, but now, after several months of them flying around with weapons and the responsibility to shoot to kill, the TSA has to question their honesty?" TSA spokesman Brian Turmail says, "The FAMs have undergone extensive and complete background investigations, and during a rapid buildup of personnel, only a handful of discrepancies have arisen. The TSA has acted quickly to clear those up and will take appropriate action." --By Sally B. Donnelly
...BLANKS? Doctors at the hospital told the BBC and TIME that U.S. forces fired blanks during the rescue, bolstering the claim that the drama, filmed by the military, was all for the cameras. They note that no hospital personnel were injured and say the spent cartridges they found did not appear to be from live ammunition. "It was all a big show," said Dr. Khodheir al-Hazbar. Pentagon spokesman Gary Keck calls the charge "ludicrous" and says the Pentagon would never send soldiers into such a situation with only blank ammunition...
...that he plagiarized and fabricated stories [PRESS, May 19], was interesting and balanced until you quoted a Times senior manager as saying the paper sometimes hires minority reporters whose experience is "significantly below" what the paper would normally require. To include this statement without additional corroboration from other Times personnel was careless and offensive to black journalists. LASHAWN Y. HAND Philadelphia...