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...violating U.N. sanctions on Yugoslavia (in 1992 he played a high-profile rematch with Boris Spassky in Belgrade), is whisked out of a Japanese jail where he was awaiting extradition and offered shelter in Reykjav?k. No one is too upset about this arrangement because he's clearly a sick man. His insane rants about Jews and America, his choice of a squalid, furtive life by a man who could have lived in princely admiration, his paranoia--he had the fillings in his teeth removed because if "somebody took a filling out and put in an electronic device, he could influence...
...turns out that that freezing behavior may be quite adaptive in certain scenarios. An animal that goes into involuntary paralysis may have a better chance of surviving a predatory attack. Many predators will not eat prey that is not struggling; that way, they are less likely to eat something sick or rotten that would end up killing them. Psychologist Gordon Gallup Jr. has found similar behavior among human rape victims. "They report being vividly aware of what was happening but unable to respond," he says...
...There was a woman who was sick here and was having trouble breathing. I brought her home and she had to stay home two weeks,” says Moura. “I called Prospect Cleaning and told them she did not get paid even though she had sick time according to the contract. I read the contract and she did have the right to get paid...
...year win a trip for two to Las Vegas. The Hospital Corp. of America in Nashville pays participating staff members 24 for each mile run or walked, each quarter-mile swum or four miles bicycled. At Scherer Brothers Lumber Co., boasts Vice President Gregory Scherer, "We have no sick pay, we have well pay." For each month that a worker is neither late nor out ill, the Minneapolis firm awards an extra two hours of salary. And employees who lose no more than three days a year to on-the-job injuries can collect a bonus...
...want to finish and I want to feel good about it,” Rizzo said. “Last year I finished, but I felt sick afterward because it was so hot and brutal...