Word: unionizers
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...Minuscule menu print has become so commonplace that some restaurants, such as Eleven Madison Park and the Union Square Cafe in New York City, offer reading glasses for guests who need them, in the same way other restaurants offer dinner jackets. They do so not because their menus are poorly designed, which they are not, but because some guests, particularly those with declining vision, have grown accustomed to using reading glasses in dim light for menus with fine print. In Baltimore, an eye-care firm launched a program called MenuMates providing upscale area restaurants four pairs of reading glasses...
...Angeles' Pico-Union neighborhood, just west of downtown, you can see what kids and their parents are up against. Outside Union Avenue Elementary School in this mostly working-class Latino community, an army of street vendors selling potato chips, candy and ice cream has set up shop, waiting for schoolchildren to be released by the afternoon bell. Technically, it's against city ordinances for the vendors to operate near school grounds during the day, but no one is stopping them. Elizabeth Medrano--an activist with the Healthy School Food Coalition and the mother of a 9-year-old boy--tours...
...June 7, the Rt. Rev. V. Gene Robinson, whose 2003 election as the first openly gay Episcopal bishop sparked death threats, entered into a civil union with his partner of 20 years, Mark Andrew. Robinson said he wanted the security and "protections ... offered to me in a civil union...
...memoir, Retired but Still Pugnacious. Amid this nonstop bellicosity, there lurks a subtle and acute, if perpetually impolitic, politician. Since his election to the Senate, Webb has done two things I didn't think possible. In 2007 he gave an official response to the State of the Union speech that was not only worth watching but also more interesting than President Bush's turgid offering. And now he has written a policy book that is actually worth reading, an unprecedented feat for a sitting politician...
...years now, since those unforgettable six months in 1989 when the known world changed, most Europeans - and most European political leaders - have been self-absorbed in refining their own system of prosperity. That process, to be sure, has benefited the outside world; it has, for example, enabled the European Union to assist the transition to market democracy of former Soviet satellites in Eastern and Central Europe. But it is surely time for European leaders and thinkers to discuss something a little more expansive than that. Out of the challenges, and indeed failures, of the Bush Administration, a lively discourse...