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Another question is ethical: How did Jesica get her last set of organs so quickly? There are about 200 very sick people waiting to get heart-and-lung combinations in the U.S., and Jesica seems to have leapfrogged the entire list. Carolina Donor Services says the organs were not directed to Jesica by the donor family. The likely answer is that the urgency of Jesica's need pushed her to the front of the line, which is accepted practice. Duke's error may have cost others as well: those waiting for just one of those organs...
Subbing for sick junior winger Tyler Kolarik, Flynn made a big impression, delivering numerous strong hits and gritty play along the boards...
...virtually identical. Only 20 km apart, they employ the same number of people - about 1,100 each - and make the same components. But there is one striking difference: employees in the Czech factory in the town of Suchdol nad Luznuci spend more than twice as much time off sick as their Austrian counterparts in nearby Schrems. Is there something in the water? No. The problem is not health or the environment, according to Pavel Mracek, the Czech plant's personnel director. The problem is the government's absenteeism policy. At present, a typical worker at the Czech plant earns about...
...Progress in combatting absenteeism has been erratic in much of Europe, where unions are powerful and the welfare state persists. In the Netherlands during the 1990s, the Dutch government shifted the bulk of the responsibility for the first year of a worker's sick pay from its own coffers to those of employers. Dutch companies, went the thinking, would thus police their workers' absences more carefully. It seems to have worked: one study by the Labor Force Survey shows absenteeism in the Netherlands fell about one-third between 2000 and 2002. Elsewhere, however, things have not changed. In Germany, employers...
Sokurov, however, insists that the idea of the film, if not the making of it, was simple. “I am sick of editing,” he said. “Let’s not be afraid of time.” Repeatedly in promotional materials, he asserts that he sought merely to create a film that “mirrors the flowing of time accurately,” following rules of Classical form and content...