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...Washington, the usually impeccable movie hero, sitting at a subway dispatcher's console. The star looks puffy and has a gut you could park a Hummer on. Weighing in at a sedentary 220 lb. (100 kg), he's playing a desk jockey burdened by the usual bureaucratic bull plus a scandal that has put his career in the commode. (In the original film, Matthau rarely rose to anger; he was a weary, wily guy, just doing his job. This time it's personal.) And now, on the other end of the line, he's got Travolta, a chatty psychopath...
...higher cost of local goods? After all, big-box stores got to be big because their prices are low. Susan Witt says that the difference falls away once you consider the increase in local employment as well as the relationships that grow when people buy from people they know. (Plus, one could argue, lower transportation, and therefore environmental, costs, and you know what you're getting-which as we've recently seen with suspected contamination in toys and other products from China, can be a concern...
...Dinda and I snap a photo together back in the day? I didn't think so, but I often forget if I've washed my hair two minutes after rinsing the shampoo. How could I be sure she wasn't sending me a poignant shot from four years ago? Plus, who doesn't like looking at their younger, better-looking selves...
...accepted the buyout packages received a one-time retirement lump-sum payment equal to one year's annual salary, a "bridge benefit" of $750 per month until Social Security eligibility at age 62, and a waiver on the "rule of 75"--which stipulates that an employee's age plus service must equal 75--for retiree medical eligibility. He said that while most of the staff would leave the University by the end of June, some may remain for a few extra months in order to ensure a smooth transition.FAS Dean Michael D. Smith had announced in April that...
...February, Cambridge Systematics, a transportation consulting firm in Massachusetts, released a traffic study based on the land-use plan and concluded that despite the mass-transit options, the proposed influx of residents, plus an expected 100,000 new jobs, will result in more congestion. "Maybe," responds task-force chairman Tyler. "But it will have a lot less traffic than if Tysons keeps developing...