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Like the athletes in every episode of Shaq Vs., I found that the man had gotten into my head. Panicking, I asked him how he was going to beat me. "I probably can't," he said. This clearly was a trick, perhaps a way of distracting me while he appeared out of my boom box as a genie and dunked a basketball on my head. Seriously, I feel better every time I mention Kazaam. But then O'Neal said, "There's a difference between confident and arrogant. I'm a humble person. I'm not going up against a fifth...
...producing a longer and drier fire season. The spread of the tree-killing mountain pine beetle, aided by warmer winters, has turned millions of acres of Western forest into kindling. And as the flames burn, they'll reinforce climate change. A report published in the journal Science this spring found that not only are fires worsening as a result of climate change, but the CO[subscript 2] they release further contributes to global warming in an accelerated feedback cycle. The burning season may be just beginning...
...York Cheating the Poorest Low-income workers regularly earn less than minimum wage and are often denied proper overtime pay, according to one of the largest recent studies of wage-law violations. Interviews with nearly 4,400 people in sectors such as retail and child care found that on average, workers did not receive 15% of their rightful pay. Employees injured on the job also reported widespread pressure not to file for workers' compensation...
Investigators found a female body yesterday evening inside a wall in the basement of the research facility where missing Yale graduate student Annie Le, 24, was last seen Tuesday morning. Officials could not confirm last night whether the remains belonged to Le, according to an e-mail Yale President Richard C. Levin sent to the community yesterday evening. An autopsy will be performed by the Connecticut Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, but police are assuming the body is Le’s, according to the Yale Daily News. The case has now been labeled a homicide investigation. Just yesterday...
...benefits to workers are just as significant. A study conducted by Washington State University found that hourly wages at employee-owned firms were five to 12 percent higher than those at other firms and retirement benefits almost three times greater in value. Employee culture tends to improve in concert. For example, W.L. Gore, the worker-owned firm that manufactures Gore-Tex, has no formal “bosses” and is routinely ranked by Fortune as one of America’s best companies to work...