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...South Carolina is struggling to hold its traditional importance as a key state in the first round of primaries to follow New Hampshire. Now it is competing against Alabama for that spot. While South Carolina offers a strong African-American contingent, Alabama has more union members, another key factor in the decision-making at the DNC. But even if South Carolina wins, it will suffer a loss under the new schedule, since it will now follow the new southwestern primary...
...would be manipulated by merchants to screw the consumer. Playing to our patriotism, he cites the coin's tradition. Playing to our guilt, he says penny drives bring charities millions. And playing to our fears, Weller says the penny is a psychological hedge against inflation, a consideration the European Union factored in when it decided to make a one-cent euro coin (though several countries have since effectively banished it): "If you take the penny away, that has a huge impact on how people view the economy and inflation." If you think Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's statements rock...
...quickest way to become a victim of identity theft is to let your Social Security number (SSN) fall into the wrong hands. That's why a group of employees are suing Union Pacific Railroad over the casual way the company used the numbers to ID workers--a practice that became a real issue in April when a computer with the names and numbers of 30,000 employees was stolen. In May someone made off with a laptop containing the SSNs of 26.5 million people on file at the Department of Veterans Affairs--which suggests that it's more important than...
Employers need your Social Security number to pay you--but that doesn't mean they have to print it on your company badge or make it your log-in to access work schedules (one of the complaints in the Union Pacific case). With the rise in identity theft, companies, including UP, are starting to change their ways. Consider asking your personnel and IT departments to give you a different employee number. Citing stats on ID theft might help your case...
...Magna Carta (which begins August 6 and will last one year). It points up the seemingly intractable east-west dispute that erupted in violence two days after the July 2 vote, when members of the Santa Cruz Youth League attacked a meeting of the mostly indigenous Regional Worker Union in Santa Cruz, injuring dozens, while local police stood by. The commanding police officer was later fired but claims that he was only following the orders of the state's governor and autonomy advocate Ruben Costas not to intervene...