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...future. Opel employs around 26,000 workers in Germany, almost half of GM Europe's total workforce of 55,000. With Germany in the driving seat during the negotiations, politicians and trade unions in other European countries are concerned the new investor Magna, along with its Russian partners, will protect German jobs at the expense of other jobs. "There are going to be more tough negotiations with GM Europe and Magna," says Klaus Franz, the head of Opel's works council. "A very stony road lies ahead of us. Jobs will be cut, but we hope we can prevent forced...
...Recovery Alliance. But not all officials agree that they are a viable part of any solution to the country's drug problem. Critics argue that arming drug addicts with an overdose remedy only encourages more drug use; they also say naloxone should be administered only by medical professionals to protect against side effects and potentially dangerous misuse. The deputy director of former President Bush's Office of National Drug Control Policy called naloxone programs "not good public-health policy," since they are not overseen by doctors or EMTs...
...others' lives, yet we don't know much about yours. How do you react when the gossip includes you? - Patrick Michaels, New York City I don't take myself very seriously. I'm not Zac Efron, obviously. There's not a precious image that I'm trying to protect. I can be a bitch. I can go out and get photographed drunk. I can even get arrested. I don't think people will think any differently of me. (See pictures of Perez Hilton...
...factories. When those givebacks are added to an earlier surrender of the notorious "jobs bank" - which paid laid-off autoworkers for doing nothing - clearly the UAW's once heavenly bed has lost much of its fluff. What remains is the VEBA, the multibillion-dollar trust fund designed to protect a key element of the membership's fabled retirement benefits - which the union refers to as deferred wages. As in the Chrysler deal, the UAW agreed to trade a chunk of the cash GM owed the VEBA for 17.5% equity in the company and other considerations. (Read about Detroit's efforts...
...centuries, one of the greatest dangers pregnant women faced was not gaining enough weight to adequately nourish a healthy baby. To protect against malnutrition and, in some cases, a strong societal pressure to stay thin, doctors - and grandmothers - everywhere routinely urged expecting mothers...