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...craps dealers, bartenders and other workers. But fully 56% of the nearly 1,300 employees who arrived after losing their jobs at local defense contractors like Electric Boat had to take pay cuts of at least $2,500 a year, according to Donald Peppard, a Connecticut College economist. One welder- turned-security guard was making $23,000 less than he had been earning. The workers who came from service jobs fared considerably better. Peppard found most earning at least $2,500 more than in their old positions...
Last Friday, Edward W. Honaker, a welder imprisoned for 10 years on a rape conviction, was freed after DNA profiling proved he could not have raped a 19 year old girl...
...Stoneham, Massachusetts, for reassurance. The dining room is filled with tubs of unopened mail. Her close family has always been her mainstay, the lump of gold Harding never had. But the struggle to vault their daughter to the top has been tough on the Kerrigans; father Dan is a welder, mother Brenda is legally blind. When Nancy began lessons, the family thought she might follow the path of her young coach, Theresa Martin, who was putting herself through college by teaching kids...
...mine workers in the mountain town of El Cobre, west of Santiago de Cuba in Oriente province, where the revolution was born, are afraid of the dreamers in Havana. Oh, yes, Cuba needs to change, says a 57-year-old welder we'll call Alberto. "But we need something for everybody, not just for a few." He does not want his real name used, and he keeps looking nervously over his shoulder. "If they see me talking to you, tomorrow I will have trouble with the police," he says...
...first, the couple reluctantly agreed. With a five-year-old daughter to care for already, the Lakebergs were financially strapped. Ken, a welder, had been out of work for a year, and the family had been forced to move after being evicted from a trailer home. So the day after Christmas, Reitha drove to an abortion clinic in Chicago. "She was real sad," says her sister Theresa Hubbell. "She didn't want it done, I could tell, but she figured the doctor told her to do it." The clinic, however, was unprepared to handle the unusual pregnancy and postponed...