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Real life doesn't quite provide that kind of a party for actual 10 million milers - though certainly get treated well. Phillip Dunkelberger is the president of a data protection firm. Work sends him around the globe and he has earned about 14 million miles, mostly with American. ("I'm also an elite on United and Luftansa," he says.) What did he get at 10 million? It passed with the outward fanfare of an on-time arrival. "It was a trip to Zurich two years ago. I knew this trip would put me over 10 million miles," he recalls...
Such measures still rely on people's own assessment of whether they want to work. A BLS study a decade ago found that these self-assessments aren't all that reliable. So how about the simplest possible job-market measure, the employment-to-population ratio? Among Americans ages 25 to 54, it was at 75.1% in November, down from 80.3% in early 2007 and - with the exception of October's 75% - the lowest it's been since 1984. Because of the entry of women into the workforce, the ratio trended upward from the 1960s through the 1990s. If you look...
...Decade from Hell" [Dec. 7]? What about the successful rovers on Mars? All the exoplanets we've begun to find? What about the progress made on gay rights and for women in business? What about the advances made toward curing so many forms of cancer? Our imagination and hard work ultimately trumped our greed and self-interest...
...people have left. The world calls to the people of Lake Wobegon, especially to the young. I don't know what it is, but they leave. All of the work that we put into raising them and educating them and instilling values of industry and loyalty and kindness--it all goes to benefit other parts of the country. It's a tragedy...
...names and slogans but keep the same oppression and abuses practiced by the previous regime. Everyone knows I am a defender of theocratic government, although not in the current form. The difference lies in the fact that I intended for the people to choose the jurist and supervise his work... I now feel ashamed of the tyranny conducted under this banner. What we see now is the government of a military guardianship, not the guardian of Islamic scholars."(Read about Montazeri in the top 10 players in Iran's power struggle...