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...Americans with Disabilities Act, when the Supreme Court ruled that an assembly-line worker with carpal tunnel syndrome wasn't covered by the antidiscrimination law. Still, as a judge, Roberts has come down on the side of workers, ruling in favor of an employee who accused Washington's transit authority of having fired him because he suffers from bipolar disorder. He upheld the district court ruling because he said the transit authority received federal funds and thus was obliged to follow federal laws governing terminations. Upcoming Cases: One involves whether workers at meat-processing plants should be paid...
...recalls, "where they thought the footpaths were paved with gold." Some migrants would find both more and less than they expected; others would arrive at a creative life, where the memory of their homeland would become grist for their art. In many ways, these souls are still in transit. The rhymes of Bill Urale, the Auckland rap star also known as King Kapisi, echo out across the Pacific: "You are immersed in a vision cultivated by this Samoan / Strong is my brethren Samoa mo Samoa?" And as a filmmaker, his sister Sima projects an image of her homeland just...
...attack made all the more frightening for what had come before, but though today?s assaults on London's transit system were similar in target to the ones that killed 56 people just two weeks ago, they were, thankfully, dissimilar in result. Only one person has been reported injured today when four blasts hit three Tube stations and a bus. But the reminder of how much worse it could have been has put London residents on edge...
...Photos: London's mass transit system suffers four new blasts • Map: The July 21 attacks
Homeland security�secretary Michael Chertoff tried to explain last week why air security has been given greater priority than protecting mass transit on the ground. "A fully loaded airplane with jet fuel ... has the capacity to kill 3,000 people," he said. "A bomb in a subway car may kill 30 people." That brought an outcry from many city officials. But it shouldn't reassure anyone that all the security problems in the air have been solved. Take the troubled no-fly list of the Transportation Security Administration...