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The bad news for these 9-to-5 wannabes is that cost-cutting companies are relying more on just-in-time staffing, which translates into fewer permanent positions and more disposable workers. The good news--or rather, the less depressing news--is that temporary-staffing firms are picking up some...
"The Fixer" focuses on a foreign war correspondent necessity - the shady local who takes you to the hot spots, translates, and generally greases the wheels. Sacco's fixer is Neven, who he meets in a hotel lobby in 1995. At the time the Serb nationalist siege of the city was...
Only six miles from downtown Boston, this Harvard-adminstered arboreal sanctuary hosts over 14,000 types of trees, which translates into a lot of pretty colors for fall. As you walk around the arboretum’s well-groomed paths you can romanticize over nature, or romance a daytime date...
That comfort translates into a family environment that was instrumental in winning the national title.
For skittish citizens who aren't frightened enough by disaster reports on cable news, police scanners or the Web, RCA introduces Alert Guard. The early-warning system, built into four new RCA TV models, gathers data from government watchdogs like the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Oceanic and...