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...permanent work, casual employees, Wynhausen discovers, live in a state of grinding uncertainty. When taken on at a large retail store, she's told her hours could be anywhere "from nought to 38 a week" - and she might only find out at the start of the week. A three-hour shift might be 10 days away - even if rent day isn't. In this world, unions seem largely absent or ineffectual: when Wynhausen and her co-workers are paid the wrong rates, or expected to work overtime without pay, there's no white knight to help them. Her new work...
Forty-five Girl Scouts in Rochester, Minn., spent last Thursday evening solving a crime. Although their three-hour foray into forensics was a bit sugar-coated--the girls, ages 9 to 15, were given cocoa powder to dust for fingerprints and chocolate bars to study teeth imprints--there was also a heavy dose of science and math. The troops measured the "culprit's" footprints to extrapolate how tall he or she might be and used deductive reasoning to eliminate suspects from further investigation. The workshop, organized by IBM for the fifth annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, emphasized another...
However, many students filtered in over the course of the three-hour event, often after the conclusion of other events in the athletic complex...
...campaigns officially began December 1, but it all came down to a three-hour affair Friday, when prospective candidates each gave a five minute speech and had a five minute question-and-answer session...
...people must have closely examined their approximately 58-point platform. Indeed, just as the Moore-Nichols website assured me, I did fall asleep reading it. In fact, I was so motivated by my three-hour nap that I made it to Glazer-Capp’s point 41: “Post Shuttle Times.” In a classic case of the interplay between astonishment, rest and Gordon’s vodka, I promptly printed a shuttle schedule and duct-taped it myself to the stone column framing Johnston Gate on my way to an unofficial Moore-Nichols party...