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...affront to the country's beer-making tradition. "This is the ugly face of capitalism," says Roger Van Vlasselaer, who heads the Flemish Brabant section of the ABVV-FGTB, Belgium's main union. "AB InBev are just thinking of their bottom line for shareholders, regardless of the social cost. There is no reason at all to fire people...
...ways to back up an alibi now that people are documenting their daily lives with tweets, pokes and photo tags. "Digital information can sometimes be more easily authenticated, because of date and time stamps provided on computer servers," says John Browning, a Dallas-based attorney who studies social networking...
...When we’re on campus, we usually pitch it as a social event,” Berkenfeld said. “I don’t think we had as much of an impact on this race as we would have if we didn’t have the calendar change...
...trend has a dark side, says Dalton Conley, social sciences dean at New York University. "High-income women marrying high-income men is one of the drivers of inequality," he says. "It affects the distribution of income between families." He notes that among college-educated high-income couples, the divorce rate is getting lower, while unmarried low-income men and women tend to partner up and then uncouple more rapidly. "This leads to family instability and a cycle of disadvantage," says Conley. Single parents often have trouble moving ahead in their careers, while low-earning parents have little income...
Cobos belongs to Argentina's middle-of-the road Radical Party, which lost its role as the counterbalance to the populist Peronists when Argentina's dual-party system broke down following the downfall of the disastrous Radical administration of President Fernando de la Rua in 2001. Economic collapse and social unrest led Argentina to default on $141 billion in foreign debt. Since then, the rambunctious Peronists have dominated Argentina's political scene, first under Nestor Kirchner, who oversaw the country's return to decent economic health, and then under his wife Fernandez, who was labeled Argentina's new Evita when...