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...Public-health studies suggest that people who live in mountaintop mining areas have "higher rates of lung cancer, chronic lung, heart and kidney disease mortality [and] lower birth rates" than average, possibly caused by breathing in coal dust or absorbing harmful chemicals, says Dr. Michael Hendryx, a professor of community medicine at West Virginia University, who studies health effects from mining...
Kopp said she was concerned by the less aggressive recruitment in the public sector as she saw many of her peers go to work on Wall Street...
...said she felt it was important for the future leaders of the public sector to work with low-income communities as their first experience after college...
...disrupted life in the city. Thursday's strike was the second called by Greece's main unions - representing about half the country's 5 million workers - in less than a week. Flights were halted when air-traffic controllers walked off the job, schools and government offices were shuttered, and public transport was disrupted. (See why Greece's debt crisis threatens the euro...
...public mood promises to sour even further. Most of the austerity measures haven't even been implemented yet. The VAT increase goes into effect on March 15, and civil servants will see their upcoming Easter bonuses - equal to half a month's salary - slashed by 30%. Greeks are already feeling the pinch of the economic downturn, and many fear the measures will only deepen their pain. The government's official prediction is that the economy will shrink by 0.3% this year and then begin to recover. But many Greeks and economists think those expectations are overly optimistic...