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Killer Badgers Hit the Net...
...switch quickly to jobs that cater to local customers. Inevitably, Western Europe and the U.S. will become less competitive in the expanded global labor market, and their paychecks will shrink as work migrates to places where it can be done for lower pay. They will need a safety net to catch them. "Displaced workers deserve retraining," says Stephen Roach, for what he calls "the inevitable global labor arbitrage." American policymakers could borrow a page here from European nations, who have been much more successful and imaginative at building social safety nets...
...Education isn't the only area in which Americans need to change their ways. Individuals as well as the government are spending beyond their means. Americans became net borrowers, not net savers, in 2005-something not seen since the Great Depression. If Indians and Chinese can earn $5,000 a year and salt away $1,500, Americans earning $40,000 a year should be able to save at least that much each year-but they don't. Sometimes it is easier to put things in perspective from the other side of the world. "It is not the best feeling...
...thanks to the portable tennis program she created for day-care centers and schools in Solon, Ohio, just outside Cleveland. Launched last summer and designed for kids ages 3 to 11, Buchinsky's Little Racquets is different from other tennis lessons because it brings all the equipment--even the net--directly to the schools. That means parents don't have to shuttle their kids back and forth to private lessons and schools don't have to put a gym teacher on the payroll. Best of all, the 45-min. morning classes leave afternoons free for Buchinsky to work...
...many of his bandmates, Waahaya Cusub acts like a safety net to help them cope with the unforgiving lives of refugees. For Huissen Abdi Qananuf, acting in the band's music videos was the best thing that ever happened to him, "If I were back in Somalia, I would definitely be dead or killing people. Things have changed for me now. The gangsters who would take away my shoes at the mosque don't trouble me anymore...