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...Perhaps companies lay off mostly unproductive workers. When they're eventually rehired elsewhere for less money, maybe it's because they were overpaid before? That is unlikely. At least from a statistical point of view, we made sure as much as possible that we didn't compare apples and oranges. We studied large layoffs, where workers who did not lose their jobs because of some fault of their own, and then we compared them to workers who had similar earnings trajectories and similar industry and age profiles...
...Gourmet had a more panoramic view of the epicurean sensibility," says Mary Kay Culpepper, former editor of Time Inc.'s Cooking Light and a Gourmet fan. "You'd explore the world through what was at your table. Bon App's more about entertaining...
...sounds simple. But that view not only contradicts Justice's own statement supporting a sentence reduction - Birkenfeld faced a possible five-year sentence for his work on behalf of Olenicoff - it's also flat-out wrong, says Stephen Kohn, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center, who has been involved with hundreds of whistle-blower cases. After all, he notes, it would be a serious disincentive if whistle-blowers could be tripped up by inadvertently leaving out some information the government might come across later...
...pair of cases challenge Chicago's 27-year-old ban on handgun sales within the city limits. Originally designed to curb violence in the city, the ban has long irked Second Amendment advocates, who take an expansive view of the amendment's wording that the "right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." But the Supreme Court had long held that the Second Amendment pertained only to federal laws, until a 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller struck down a ban on handguns in Washington, D.C. The ruling marked the first time...
...objections to an increased U.S. military commitment in South Asia rest on a number of flawed assumptions. The first is that Afghans always treat foreign forces as antibodies. In fact, poll after poll since the fall of the Taliban has found that a majority of Afghans have a favorable view of the international forces in their country. A BBC/ABC News poll conducted this year, for instance, showed that 63% of Afghans have a favorable view of the U.S. military. To those who say you cant trust polls taken in Afghanistan, its worth noting that the same type of poll consistently...