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There are signs, though, that change is under way. While his predecessors kept union negotiations at arm's length, union leaders say, Walsh's direct involvement helped speed up a resolution. With Walsh and his union counterpart sequestered in a London hotel, says Brendan Gold, T&G's national secretary for civil air transport, "serious negotiations were done." Ahead of BA's move next year into the new $8.5 billion Heathrow Terminal 5, the airline persuaded thousands of ground staff to agree to change their practices. So, while an aircraft tug driver used to leave work before...
...problem with the toy-movie connection, say child development experts, is that it's helping to speed a gloomy trend that has been developing for decades?the creative death of playtime. "The most imaginative play takes place when children have gaps in information that need to be filled," says Susan Linn, an instructor in psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and co-founder of Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood. A generic babydoll, for example, needs a child to give her a personality, a family, what a screenwriter would call a backstory. A teddy bear needs something to do, a plot...
...blown up by a homemade bomb in the Novgorod area en route from Moscow to St. Petersburg. Some four pounds (2 kg) of explosives derailed the train, wiping out 800 meters of track. Sixty people were reported injured, about half-dozen in critical condition. Only the train's high speed saved hundreds from death...
...industry is being targeted unfairly," says Patrick Racz, CEO of Icelandic Water. For one thing, bottled water weans consumers off soda. "People are making a substitution when they go to the fridge, so instead of getting a cola drink, they're getting a bottle of water." But the sheer speed with which bottled water is growing puts the industry under greater scrutiny. On the defensive, the International Bottled Water Association took out full-page newspaper ads on Aug. 3 touting the health benefits of drinking water...
...group using the SDS name has emerged, one with a penchant for participatory democracy but also with some fairly big logistical challenges. Inaugurated in January 2006, the new SDS has been gaining slow but steady speed ever since, with chapters springing up at colleges across the U.S., including Kent State University, Boston College and UCLA. According to the group's wiki site, there are 148 university chapters, along with 50 high school branches and a number of regional movements. But the numbers are misleading. While many chapters dot the country, individual schools may have only a handful of active members...