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...death throes of the Benevolent Manufacturing State, however, have been costly. GM alone has paid out $103 billion in pension and retiree-health-care costs over the past 15 years. "The legacy costs were designed in an era when people retired at 65 and died at 66. We weren't wrong to give it to them 30 years ago. Now they retire early and live longer," says Conway...
...natural human condition: people are interested in who wins and loses. People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them. What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul. The fact that the Sabbath gasbags couldn't predict it is a good thing. People actually voted the way they felt like voting, rather than the way somebody told them they were going to vote. That's democracy...
Near Racine, Wis., Scouts just sold a camp for $7 million - they'd been trying to unload it for years due to a lack of use. In New York, 65 acres along the Great Peconic Bay was sold in 2006 because girls just weren't attending camp. In New Jersey, three councils merged into a single group with six camps - two of which weren't being used much. Those two probably won't operate next summer, says Mary Connell, CEO of Girl Scouts of Central and Southern New Jersey, which will do a cost-benefit analysis of all the region...
...TIME's photographer on Obama's campaign trail, Shell must have taken hundreds of pictures. What a shame that in your feature "Obama's Journey" you used two photos that had been printed previously. Weren't there any others available? Gill Green, KFAR SAVA, ISRAEL...
...publicity; Macy's claimed that they would float hundreds of miles away from New York before landing softly in fields or people's yards. Stitched into balloons was a return address, and those who found one could return it to Macy's for a $100 reward. Unfortunately their flights weren't so peaceful. Out of five balloons, three landed in Long Island (one was torn to pieces by neighbors competing for the prize), one drifted into the East River, and one floated out to sea never to return. Stubbornly, Macy's tried the balloon release again...