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...people in the work force 55 or older--the only age group that's growing--jumped 8%, to 20 million. Despite a hiring slump, the average job search for those over 50 fell to less than three months for the first time in memory, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas. "Companies are looking ahead," says its CEO, John Challenger, who foresees a worker shortage as the boomers who can afford to retire do so and the much smaller Generation X proves unable to fill the gap. So, whether they like it or not, the boomers who can't afford...
...beaten to death in a mobile home 10 miles away, allegedly by his baby-sitter, Richard Chouquer, 23, as punishment for soiling his pants. The child was then wrapped in a bedspread, one with characters from Disney's 101 Dalmatians, and allegedly thrown into the trunk of Chouquer's gray Ford Taurus. Police say that as Chouquer and his girlfriend, Amandy Lawrence, 22, drove off to find a spot to dump Alfredo's body, they took the little boy's sister Rheyna, 4, along for the ride. The caseworker knew nothing about that. She was nowhere near to stop...
...PETERSBURG—The gray Audi slowly pulled up next to me and two friends as we walked along the Moika Canal. The driver’s side window buzzed down and the middle-aged man called out in Russian, “Girls, get in. Don’t you want to get out of the rain?” (Large drops had just started falling out of the sky.) Faced with our polite, “No thank-you’s,” the car crawled alongside us for another minute and then, with a shrug...
...love food as much as I love politics. More often than not, both inclinations have left me, well, a bit bloated. That's how I got interested in vegetarianism. Instead of the popular low-carb diet, which had left many friends thin but slightly gray from consuming virtually all meat, I decided to skip all meat and dairy, like the vegans do. It would, I thought, be a great way to melt away those lunches with sources...
...execution. But what about Bugs Bunny and Mickey Mouse? asks Steven Davis, professor of animal science at Oregon State University, pointing to the number of field animals inadvertently killed during crop production and harvest. One study showed that simply mowing an alfalfa field caused a 50% reduction in the gray-tailed vole population. Mortality rates increase with each pass of the tractor to plow, plant and harvest. Rabbits, mice and pheasants, he says, are the indiscriminate "collateral damage" of row crops and the grain industry...