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...casualties down; almost all of the $9.5 billion allocated to combat bioterrorism, for instance, goes toward training and equipping local public-health authorities to treat victims and haul out bodies in the event of an attack. The assumption, of course, is that an attack will come. "We need to accept that the possibility of terrorism is a permanent condition for the foreseeable future," Ridge told TIME. "We just have to accept...
...road to protest police inaction. Police forced Li Lan to bury her daughter, and that's when she became an activist partner of Liang. She repeatedly went to police headquarters to demand greater punishment for her daughter's killers; for that, she was detained for "refusing to accept ideological education," according to the warrant. She was arrested again for unfurling a banner in Tiananmen Square denouncing county officials. In the months that followed, she collected signatures and fingerprints from a thousand villagers demanding the police chief's impeachment. "People kept asking me to represent them," she says while thumbing...
...living wage campaign. My excitement was dampened, however, when I discovered that the poverty line would yield an hourly wage of $9.05 for a family of four. I didn’t quite know how to break it to Elfenbein that under her theory, the janitors should accept an immediate $2.30 an hour wage cut. Although such a statement is outrageous, so is the notion that a wage level can be scientifically determined. The federal poverty line is an inappropriate measure for the Boston area and is an inexact number itself. The very idea that...
...these workers the money they deserve. Again, as the living wage campaign has progressed, it has become increasingly apparent through conversations with workers that the Cambridge wage figure is inadequate. And even if we were to consider this figure as a minimum, that does not mean that workers should accept it, since it was meant to serve only as a base from which to move...
...Since Logan is young and in his twenties, I thought that kids might be more likely to accept him as a credible figure they can relate to,” Grandinetti says...