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...criteria AARP uses when choosing its annual Best Employers for Workers over 50 list. Mercy Health System in Janesville, Wis., another health-care provider, topped the list last month partly because of its snowbird program, which is designed to make it easy for staff members to escape Wisconsin's brutal winters. Carondelet and Mercy are the only two companies on the AARP list of 50 with snowbird programs, but Deborah Russell, who puts together the list for AARP, predicts that half her Best Employer companies will offer a snowbird option within five years. Already, Home Depot and CVS have about...
...Fortunately, when outbreaks do occur, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta is better equipped than ever to investigate clusters of disease cases and trace their cause. In this outbreak, the first call came into the CDC on Wednesday afternoon. An epidemiologist at the state health department in Wisconsin had been investigating almost 20 reports of E. coli poisoning in a matter of days, and after some initial labwork and extensive interviews with the victims, all of whom had reported bloody diarrhea, the scientists there suspected that bagged spinach might be the culprit, and called Atlanta. Shortly after...
...from its inception in 1995). "We decided it was important to not just have a single brand. So we created a multibrand, multichannel distribution concept, where you're selling 20 to 10,000 garments. This allows us to go from junior to haute couture, understand consumers from Tokyo to Wisconsin and mass merchants to Bergdorf Goodman. We're going to make sure that every one of our 16 brands has a voice and a very differentiated model." Their slew of brands includes BCBGirls, BCBG Attitude (men's ready-to-wear), Max & Cleo (dresses), Noun (tops and sweaters), Maxime (pants...
...Still, the nation was watching as the students organized at mind-boggling speed, and the week's events further proved how effective social networking sites can be for mobilizing youth. In March, a handful of young Latinos in Texas and Wisconsin used MySpace to organize walkouts that protested pending immigration legislation. Several activist groups like Voto Latino took notice and used MySpace to help coordinate May's immigration rallies, which drew more than 2 million people nationwide...
...Graham is winning. Though the White House has continued to beat the issue in speeches and press conferences, its legislation is stalled on the Hill. Democrats are doing their part, of course. Wisconsin's Russ Feingold exasperated Judiciary chairman Arlen Specter Thursday by introducing four amendments to the surveillance bill Specter had negotiated with the White House last June. The bill failed to make it out of committee and, like the military commissions bill, faces an uphill battle to reach the floor for a vote...