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...changed. The flying public is particularly eager to for an upgrade in airport security workers, the folks still failing to spot knives and guns in carry-on bags. "Millions of Americans fly, and we protect them with minimum-wage rent-a-cops," says Association of Flight Attendants spokesman Jeff Zack, who argues that airport security workers should be federal employees. Congress continues to bicker over whether such workers should be government workers or instead be employed as private contractors subject to strict federal supervision. The Senate unanimously called for federalizing the security workers. But the House is balking, with majority...
...Jeff Dunkel, 18, and his mom were both elected to represent Mount Carbon, Pa. as mayor and Borough Council member, respectively. They take office in January, in about...
...Jeff Miles added the exclamation point late for the final margin of victory...
...most of the past two years, Jeff Roberts, 53, spent virtually every weekend away from his wife Doris, also 53. Not for sales trips, not for hunting with the boys and certainly not for anything illicit. Jeff has been caring for his 86-year-old parents at their nearby home in southeastern Ohio. After his mother had a stroke in 1999, the family hired a five-day-a-week live-in caretaker for her and her husband, a dialysis patient who had lost one leg. (He died last June.) When the care worker took off on Friday nights, Jeff stepped...
This routine was burdensome in many ways but especially in the toll it took on the Roberts' marriage of 33 years. "My wife and I started out working as a team," says Jeff, "but gradually she became more and more distant, a little more resentful of the parents and jealous of the time I spent with them." Doris, whose surviving parent--her mother--is still healthy, wishes she could have been more understanding. "Jeff's parents were wonderful people, and this is an obligation you feel in your heart," she says. "Even so, this is a phase of your marriage...