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...husband, a four-year period of needles and frozen sperm, a lower chance you’ll be able to chase your grandchildren around the yard, and much lower chance you’ll be alive to attend their graduations. Do I see the paint peeling on this white picket fence dream...
White and black South Africans united last week - on the picket lines. Gold miners in the world's biggest bullion producer went on a four-day strike demanding higher wages and better living conditions. The stoppage, the first industry-wide action for almost two decades, ended after employers agreed to a 6-7% pay increase. But low pay is not the only issue. Many mineworkers still live in single-sex hostels, symbols of exploitation under the old apartheid regime. The gold-mining companies point out that they have improved accommodation considerably; still, "the problem is to rebuild an entire housing...
Married for the first time, in May at age 39, Chrystyna Garrigan, a skin-care consultant from Montclair, N.J., considers herself a pretty modern woman. Smart, independent and cheerfully unconventional, she did not spend her childhood planning the perfect wedding or dreaming of white picket fences...
...thought with the strike, you might cross a picket line and get some ice time...
Reynolds said that a majority of Yale’s teaching assistants “respected the picket lines”—meaning they either taught off campus or went on strike...