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Financially transfer payments to Quebec by the Canadian government make it better off than it would be outside of Canada. There is no good reason to separate, and Quebecers know that. When polled, they consistently express a desire to remain a part of Canada...
...entrepreneurial zeal or because they feel squeezed and stymied by the U.S. job market? Elder observers provide contradictory answers. Maury Hanigan runs a consulting firm that advises multinational companies on staffing strategy and conducts focus groups with college students across the country. She says the twentysomethings she listens to express frustration at "the logjam caused by baby boomers, so many of whom are ahead of them in management jobs and won't retire for another 20 years...
...broader safety question, the figures are reassuring. Airline fatalities in the U.S., in proportion to miles flown, have been dropping for decades and lately have stabilized at levels so low that they are difficult even to express as a statistical risk. The National Transportation Safety Board counts 31 fatalities suffered by passengers aboard major U.S. carriers during 1992, which works out to 0.0006 deaths per million aircraft miles flown. Last year that number fell close to an irreducible minimum. As far as major U.S. airlines were concerned, there were no fatalities at all in the air, only...
...while on guard duty at air force headquarters in Pretoria. A bomb attributed to the A.N.C. had exploded, killing 19 people. After leaving the service, Carter got a job at a camera supply shop and drifted into journalism, first as a weekend sports photographer for the Johannesburg Sunday Express. When riots began sweeping the black townships in 1984, Carter moved to the Johannesburg Star and aligned himself with the crop of young, white photojournalists who wanted to expose the brutality of apartheid -- a mission that had once been the almost exclusive calling of South Africa's black photographers. "They...
...American Express courts clients with a new line of credit cards...