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...that have downsized to stay competitive--Boeing, Goodyear, Kodak, Lucent and Xerox, to name a few--will have to cut benefits as they fight to absorb the outsize costs of their retired work forces. Only 62% of large employers provided health benefits for retirees 65 and older in 2001, vs. 80% a decade earlier, according to a survey by consultants Hewitt Associates. Eight of 10 large employers say they will probably increase the amount employees pay for health care this year, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. On average, workers today contribute $174 a month for family coverage, up from...
...shows may turn out to be awful, but at least they're attempting more original premises than those of the other major networks. And perhaps it's not a coincidence that the network with the most provocative scripted series ideas is the network that gave us Man vs. Beast. The cheesiest reality shows and the most ambitious sitcoms and dramas have one thing in common: they try to startle us with something we haven't seen before. But startling people doesn't always sell detergent. In the TV business, that's the only reality that matters...
That Bush may win a second term as President is more than worrying. To think he may be given another four years to entrench his good-vs.-evil foreign policy while destroying everything standing in his line of fire (including relationships with allies such as France) underestimates the intelligence of the American people. I wasn't one of those who followed the European fashion of protesting Bush's policy on Iraq just because it was war, but I can't see that the war improved anything. Terrorism is still a threat, and the Iraqis are still unhappy. For the sake...
...LATEST COVER STORY Nature vs. Nurture