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...Taco Bell relaunched in the country two years ago and now has plans to expand to 300 outlets. If Mexicans are willing to spend their pesos on authentic American chimichangas, maybe it's not a pipe dream for Chinese to dig into some Sichuan Chicken Flatbread. With a knife and fork, of course...
...income is based on teams' achieving performance goals. If the cardiac group keeps its complication and readmission rates below a certain level, paychecks get fatter because costs decrease. Ditto for the pediatric orthopedic team, which must successfully treat kids for, say, spinal curvature without being too quick with the knife for those who don't need surgery or too slow for those who do. "We keep cash compensation flexible and incentivized," Steele says. "That takes away some of the insane piecework...
ZACHARY CHRISTIE, a 6-year-old cub scout from Newark, Del., who was given a 45-day suspension for violating a zero-tolerance weapons ban by bringing to school a camping utensil equipped with a spoon, fork and knife. After a slew of protests, the suspension was rescinded...
...There’s an egg on your head and the yolk is running down… There is a knife in your back and the blood is gushing down?...
Nevertheless, Christie’s parents and other members of the community are right to express outrage at the facts of the case. Christie is only six years old, and he brought the knife in because he wanted to show off his new Cub Scout tool at lunch. The rationale behind suspending him and potentially sentencing him to a month and a half in reform school seems highly questionable: Christie is not a student with violent or disruptive tendencies, so the question remains as to which aspects of his behavior need to be “reformed...