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...Cambridge is] now dominated by service sector jobs, especially those that are directly or indirectly related to the universities, their labs, the firms that indirectly service the universities and students,” she wrote in an e-mail...
Ascherman Professor of Economics Richard B. Freeman noted that universities provide white-collar jobs, which are generally more stable than the blue-collar jobs of the manufacturing sector...
...would respect their wishes and honor its obligation under China's Trade Union Law." The company succumbed to pressure from the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU), the only legal labor organization in China. The ACFTU has struggled to gain a foothold in the country's booming private sector. "Imagine what American workers in Wal-Mart stores are going to say," says Robin Munro, research director at the Hong Kong-based China Labour Bulletin. "'Chinese workers living under communism are allowed to have unions in Wal-Mart stores, but we in America aren...
...making an example of some of the CIA's best operatives. Either way, Goss has unleashed a costly spectacle that must at least amuse the likes of Osama bin Laden, still at large more than three years after 9/11: CIA officers and their many retired allies in the private sector working the phones and fax lines to warn the world that Goss's cure may be worse than what afflicts the nation's 57-year-old spy factory. "Anytime you've got top people dropping like flies when we're facing serious risks, you have to be concerned," says Senator...
...vocal sector of the religious community, on the other hand, has seized on the anthropic principle as further evidence that God created the universe just for us--adding intellectual support to the so-called intelligent-design movement, which believes that the staggering complexity of nature can be explained only by assuming that some higher intelligence had a hand in designing it. Over the past several years, pitched battles have been fought in school boards in Ohio, Kansas, Georgia and Montana and, just weeks ago, in Dover County, Pa., over whether to give intelligent design and Darwin's theory of evolution...