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...major difference between Gray and Jones, say advocates for low-wage workers, is that she lives in a city where janitors are unionized and have collectively negotiated salaries considerably above the minimum wage, what they call a living wage. The living-wage movement has been building steam as outsourcing moves millions of relatively high-wage manufacturing jobs overseas, leaving behind less mobile, low-paying ones such as health-care aides, security guards and janitors. But it may have got a new burst of energy when the Change to Win Federation, made up of seven labor unions that split from...
...Lady Pat wants to convince me that Sudoku is the caviar of puzzles, an ideal mind expander, opening a world of numerical possibilities with a minimum of means. All right. I acknowledge the game's elegance. And, heaven knows, I'm a number freak. Attach a few of them to a pitcher's or batter's record, and I'm off in Rotisserie or SABRmetrics dreamland. Ahh, slugging percentage! Oooh, WHIP (walks plus hits divided by innings pitched)! Those numbers have meaning, personality, clout. They lend biographical nuance and historical comparison to the game of baseball...
...torture? Much of the report rehashes old charges; it cites, for example, a "preponderance of indications" that Romania and Poland housed secret detention centers in which, presumably, terrorist suspects were kept en route to or from a country like Cuba or Afghanistan where they could be tortured with minimum legal interference. The involvement of such New European countries - although hotly denied - would not be wholly unexpected, since they were among the "coalition of the willing" that backed the Iraq invasion in 2003. More surprising are the report's allegations that countries where the Iraq war was far more controversial have...
...credit cards, then auto loans. Move on to your home-equity line of credit and, last, your mortgage. That isn't easy, and automatic payments can really help. So does thinking of it this way: if you have $10,000 in credit-card debt and are paying only the minimum, adding $1 a day to the payment will save you $12,615 in interest expense and retire the debt 35 years earlier, according to The Late Saver's Guidebook nefe.org) The sooner you stop paying interest, the more you will save...
...increase if you do more of it. That's obviously true if your goal is to stay trim; exertion is fueled by calorie burning. But plenty of studies have shown it applies to staving off heart disease too, and for years the standard medical advice was to get a minimum of 20 to 30 min. of vigorous, continuous exercise at least three times each week...