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After two failed swings at trying to extend jobless benefits for nearly 3 million U.S. workers, Congress and President Bush finally agreed last week on a $5.3 billion compromise package that could give some of the unemployed new checks by Thanksgiving. The agreement would allow workers to collect up to 20 weeks of extra checks after they have used up their initial 26 weeks of benefits. The duration of the additional benefits will depend mostly on individual states' jobless rates, with recipients in the more severely affected regions getting payments longer. The measure will be financed largely by speeding...
...according to Karin Sherbin, a spokesperson for the university, the university met all of the GEO's demands except one: it refused to collect fees from graduate student employees who are not GEO members...
...parts of this week's cover story on privacy, associate editor Richard Lacayo had to look at companies that collect and sell information on the bill- paying history of almost every adult American. Last year Richard sent off for a copy of his own credit report. What would that personal experience tell us about the story he was investigating, we wondered...
Lacayo did find that preparing the privacy story made him more sensitive to the proliferation of efforts to penetrate personal privacy. Having learned that data companies collect the addresses and phone numbers of people who make credit-card purchases, he began to notice how often he is asked for that information by shop clerks. And he says he's more aware now of video surveillance cameras in stores and workplaces. "It's hard not to feel a bit more vulnerable to intrusions I was just dimly aware of in the past," says the determinedly unparanoid writer. "But I've resisted...
...backed the station wagon and the Mercedes sedan out of the garage, put the kids in the cars and left the engines running. At 2 p.m. the fire crested the hill above the Harrison house with a terrible roar and danced down the slope. Joy belatedly began trying to collect valuables. She found the savings bonds and the photo albums. "I got an armful of suits and two pair of shoes," recalls John. The kids, watching from the station wagon, began screaming...