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...federal report projects that temperatures in Boston will match those of present-day Richmond, Va. within the next 100 years. City officials are worried that climate change would lead to a rise in sea levels, damage the local economy and increase the risk of natural disaster...
Workplace experts are only beginning to grasp the phenomenon. "In the information age, knowledge is critical to business--and it's the employee who owns it," says Hamilton Beazley, 58, chairman of the Strategic Leadership Group, a consultancy in Arlington, Va. Beazley coined the term ghost work--now catching on around the country--to describe the additional workload taken on by surviving employees, usually without their former colleagues' trove of knowledge. "It's as if they're suddenly asked to start speaking Greek," says Beazley. "It can be totally demoralizing and can cripple the individual as well as the organization...
...problem isn’t unique to my hometown. Veterans’ Day has suffered from an identity problem for the better part of a century, according to the Department of Veterans’ Affairs’ (VA) unattractive website. The federal government first recognized Veterans’ Day in 1926, with the intention (in the words of the concurrent resolution) “that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations.” In 1938, Nov. 11 became...
...which created four long weekends by moving the celebration Veterans’ Day and three other national holidays to Mondays, intensified Veterans’ Day’s image problem. The change was met by widespread opposition, and in 1975 the holiday was moved back to Nov. 11. The VA applauded the move, since “the restoration of the observance of Veterans’ Day to Nov. 11 not only preserves the historical significance of the date, but helps focus attention on the important purpose of Veterans’ Day: a celebration to honor America?...
...doing away with Veterans’ Day altogether, and I certainly don’t suggest abandoning long weekends. But we would do well to adopt the British custom of observing Veterans’ Day with quiet dignity on the nearest Sunday to Nov. 11. (You sense, reading the VA website’s rhapsodic description of British observations of the day, that the VA thinks this would be a good idea, too.) And in lieu of those Monday holidays the Uniform Holidays Bill created, we might adopt the British custom of bank holidays—those Mondays free from...