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Cincinnati shares many attributes with Pittsburgh. Both are Rust Belt cities with midsize populations--314,000 for Cincinnati and 322,000 for Pittsburgh--and workforces similar in size and composition. Each has seen its once mighty manufacturing base crumble, with Cincinnati losing 17,000 manufacturing jobs over the past decade and Pittsburgh 22,600. But they diverge in their treatment of janitors and other low-wage service workers, and living-wage advocates say the results are telling. In Cincinnati neighborhoods like Over-the-Rhine and the West End, where Jones lives, poor wages coupled with high rates of drug...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trying to Make A Decent Living | 6/18/2006 | See Source »

That's not quite the full story. De Laurentiis exercises three days a week with Joseph Rivera, a Taekwondo black belt whose other clients have included a Playboy cover model. She also regularly walks along the beach near her Pacific Palisades, Calif., home for as long as two hours, which she admits can get "really freakin' boring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 2 Thin Chefs | 6/11/2006 | See Source »

...that she has two degrees under her belt, Elena says she plans to start yet another master’s degree program next year to “kill more time.” At one point, she says, she even considered returning to her native land of Mexico as a “repatriated expatriate...

Author: By Javier C. Hernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: For Student Immigrants, A Secret Life | 6/7/2006 | See Source »

...Raimondi, Boe, and captain Carrie Schroyer—to lead an inexperienced squad that included eight freshmen—many of whom logged significant minutes. The youthful unit had its inadequacies, particularly defensive stability (junior Lindsey Weaver was the lone blueliner returning with two letters under her belt), exposed by more seasoned squads in late 2005, losing to Clarkson and tying St. Lawrence (on a Solley score with six seconds left) at the Bright Center and falling to Yale and Minnesota-Duluth twice on the road. The autumn rut culminated in a 3-0 dissection at the hands...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: SEASON RECAP: Seniors Lead Way to Strong Run Down Final Stretch | 6/5/2006 | See Source »

...with. "They were never abusive," he said. "There was a certain amount of antagonism and frustration when people didn't cooperate. But it's not like they had KILL 'EM ALL spray-painted on the walls." Most of Kilo's members had at least one Iraqi tour under their belt, Read noted; several had two, and one was working on his third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ghosts Of Haditha | 6/4/2006 | See Source »

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