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Recruiter Lisa Gallagher scans the wires every day, hoping to turn bad news into good. No sooner does she spot notices of layoffs at other companies than her employer, software developer CSC Continuum, takes out help-wanted ads in the stricken communities. That's fortunate for people who have been laid off and vital for her company, which is scrambling to hire 300 in the next six months. "We are in critical [hiring] mode," Gallagher says...
...where the killings took place has been torn down. Concerts and fairs have been held in support of the stricken families, and more than $12 million has been raised to help them, and for memorials. Perhaps the most notable commemoration was set in motion when the father of one victim heard some new lyrics written by a local musician for the Bob Dylan song Knockin' on Heaven's Door. With Dylan's blessing, some of the Dunblane children, including the siblings of four of the victims, recorded the song, which sold 189,000 copies within a week and entered...
...annual event. We got stricken by what I call the American Christmas spirit," a Starr employee said...
...will Simpson's actions the day he was supposed to surrender to police. Unlike in the criminal trial, where prosecutors were worried that introducing the tale of Simpson's slow-speed Bronco chase would open the door to testimony about a grief-stricken and suicidal husband, Simpson will now be called to account for those hours--and for the fact that he carried with him a disguise, a pile of cash and his passport...
...Russian Mars probe is falling! The Russian Mars probe is falling! The prospect of the stricken plutonium-powered spacecraft's raining down on Down Under brought back memories of the U.S. Skylab's shower of pieces over the area in 1979 and threatened to overshadow President Clinton's visit to Australia last week. Fortunately, the probe crashed harmlessly in the South Pacific. But don't stop looking up yet: the earth's skies remain heavily laden with space junk. In the next 60 days, the U.S. Space Command estimates, four orbiting objects possibly large enough to survive re-entry will...