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...proposed settlement, which Harvard’s janitors will vote on tomorrow, also institutes a system providing higher wages to janitors working later hours or multiple consecutive days and increases vacation time, sick days and disability benefits...
Harvard’s janitors will also receive several days of vacation during the winter recess or an equal amount of time off at another point during the year and six to twelve sick days, depending on seniority...
...These days Beddoe, 33, spends much of her time at home in Melbourne reading up on psychiatry while working on a book about her ordeal. She's certain that what made her sick were side effects of the most commonly prescribed class of antidepressants, the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs). A pharmaceutical phenomenon that began with fluoxetine (Prozac) in the late 1980s, the SSRIs rode a wave of gushing publicity to usurp the older antidepressants, the tricyclics, and reap a fortune for their makers: worldwide sales now exceed $20 billion a year. But the honeymoon is over. Even doctors...
...mean you should book a ticket to Bangkok the minute you start feeling chest pains. As the therapy is still experimental, only those classified by doctors as "no option" - meaning that conventional solutions such as angioplasty and bypass surgery have been exhausted - are eligible. "These patients are really sick," says TheraVitae spokesman Jay Lenner Jr. "We can give people a second chance." Those interested in the treatment, which costs about $30,000 (including most expenses in Bangkok) and requires a 12-day stay, can find out more at www.vescell.com. For some, it could be the trip of a lifetime...
...vote? I retired in 1972. Politics is not really my thing. One side says, "The tree is sick, and all it needs is proper water and food and it will get healthy." The other side says, "The tree is sick. Cut it down." If it's not my tree I have a tendency to butt...