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...will be about $450,000, bringing the total for the past few years to $1.4 million. With each money-losing year, a tiny piece of the 14-bed hospital dies. When that happens, the entire community suffers. Dickson's most agonizing decision came when he was forced to shutter the long-term-care unit. "It was the only place the elderly could go," he says. "If someone had dementia, we had a room for them." But no more. Now if people who spent their life in Bisbee need elder care, they must leave the area. "The more free care...
...they have to be confined to cages 24 hours a day, bred with no limit on the number of litters and no required socialization with other dogs or with humans?" asks Josette Aramini, cofounder of the new United Against Puppy Mills group in Lancaster. The organization has worked to shutter large-scale breeders by petitioning local zoning boards to deny them permits...
...persuade the U.A.W. that what's good for GM is good for labor, even if it means shutting down plants and laying off workers. The company can't slim down easily, a legacy of earlier battles with the U.A.W. and labor deals that make it prohibitively expensive to shutter factories. What happens to a GM worker when his or her plant shuts down? Not much. Under GM's contract with the U.A.W., laid-off workers are entitled to 95% of their salary plus benefits for nearly two years. So while closing factories saves money on materials and overhead, it takes...
...museum bills as Adams’ great revelation. It’s in this photograph, the exhibit says, that Adams first used his technique of “pre-visualization,” through which he captured and predicted the emotional impact of a scene before opening the shutter. The image—presented in two prints, one from 1927 and the other made three to four decades later to show how Adams used advances in technology to his advantage—marked the beginning of the photographer’s transition from pictorialism to his trademark...
...left-hand corner of the page allow you to view other images; to scan Nightingale's entire online portfolio (some 543 images to date), click on Thumbs. The Archives section offers a detailed description of each image, including how it was shot (which camera, type of lens, shutter speed, etc.). The Snowsuit Effort is also excellent; featuring close-ups of the individuals photoblogger Ryan Keberly meets on the streets of Detroit and the things they say. For a Top 100 list of photoblogs and a directory organized by country and language, visit Photoblogs.org...