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...share of the comeback? Their discontent seemed ready to boil over last week, even as striking flight attendants returned in triumph to their jobs at American Airlines. No sooner had American resumed its normal flight schedule than pilots and mechanics at United Airlines began a slowdown to protest the prospect of thousands of new layoffs. In Los Angeles more than 150 police officers scheduled for the morning shift called in sick to pressure the city into negotiating a new contract to replace one that expired 17 months ago. And in Illinois Caterpillar workers staged slowdowns at plants in six locations...
Only the government could think of obesity as a new entitlement. Doesn't anyone stop to think what the creation of another aggrieved group will mean to the already bursting-at-the-seams body politic? Or did anyone fast-forward to the prospect of adjudicating whether a person is fat enough to park in a handicapped space at the shopping mall or should continue to get preferential seating on airplanes? "There is not a legal cure for every wrong," says Fred Siegal, a political science professor at Cooper Union. "This is litigiousness run wild...
...definition of what constitutes actionable fatness is, well, very broad. To be covered, it is best to be twice the normal weight for your height -- although that's not hard and fast -- have little prospect of voluntarily shedding the weight, and have been that way long enough that it "substantially limits a major life activity or is regarded as so doing...
...Chinese are justified in their haughty response to American human-rights posturing. They know that if Congress tries to rescind China's MFN status, it will be besieged by frantic business lobbies which are currently salivating at the prospect of cheap labor and a market over a billion strong. Even the relatively minor sanctions imposed by the U.S. over the supposed Pakistan arms shipments hurt American companies more than it hurts the Chinese government...
...lone eyewitness to the alleged theftwas Mark Urciuoli, a Prospect Cleaners employeewho until recently worked nights as a cleaner atthe Law School...