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...Guangdong province of migrant workers, now jobless, who are headed back to their hometowns in less-prosperous parts of the country. This exodus - the reversal of more than two decades of migration from poor rural areas to faster-growing, coastal cities - is most visible at the Guangzhou train station, where hundreds of migrants, all bearing suitcases and shopping bags crammed with their worldly belongings, sit outside for hours waiting to board trains home. On Nov. 26, Zhang De Jun, 35, was one of them. For 10 years, he said, he worked in a sweater factory not far from Dongguan...
...attacks on the Chabad house to al-Qaeda or some of Israel's foes closer to home, such as Palestinian militants, Hamas or the Lebanese militia Hezballah. They say that the terrorists' target was foreigners, not just Israelis, and that the attacks against luxury hotels, restaurants, a hospital, a train station and Chabad house were designed for maximum shock value...
...distant from his own domestic life. His 1934 marriage to Ruth Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson's grand-niece, ended in divorce, and he showed little interest in their son John. The Unseen Alistair Cooke shows a home movie the father shot of his six-year-old son's train set, but the footage is all about the toy trains; young John's role was excised before shooting. When his stepdaughters from his 1946 marriage to Jane Hawkes joined a London cult called The Process, and needed extradition, Cooke declined to make the trip. He made few visits to Blackpool...
Want 50% more for your work? Get a government job. Private-sector employers may be cutting deeply into employee benefits, but for local and state governments, the gravy train rides on. Last year state and local governments spent an average of 51% more per employee on benefits and compensation than private-sector employers did, or $39.50 per hour worked versus $26.09, according to the Employee Benefits Research Institute. And the disparity continues to grow...
...seven years old in 1959, and I was studying in Darjeeling," recalls Khedroop Thondop. "One day my teachers told me that I was to go and receive someone at the train station. That's when I realized that I was related to His Holiness and that I was Tibetan...