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...Fruit Of The Suit McDonald's brushes off obesity-related lawsuits as ludicrous, but they must be weighing heavily on some executives' minds. Under a scheme unveiled in the U.K., the golden arches will sell fresh fruit for the first time, with sliced apples and oranges for about 31 per bag - or as a substitute for fries in children's Happy Meals...
...Hofman, deputy minister of labor and social affairs, told Time: "Some companies suddenly report that almost 100% of their workers are sick. It's as if they've been hit by plague." Between August 2000 and August 2001, Germany's Betriebskrankenkasse des Landes Berlin (bkk) - a state health-insurance scheme - made unannounced home visits to workers in Berlin who had been off sick at least five times in the previous year, claiming minor ailments. Of the 65,000 people they visited, 53% were diagnosed as being fit for work. Says François de Closets, author of several books...
...also hampered by their policies toward long-term illness. At present, some 37 million Europeans are officially listed as disabled. Definitions vary, but in the U.K., a person who is still ill after receiving full occupational or statutory sick pay - a benefit that, in the case of the government scheme, lasts for 28 weeks - is then reclassified from being "in employment" to receiving Incapacity Benefit. That benefit costs the U.K. government some €3.6 billion a year more than unemployment benefit. And the longer you're on Incapacity Benefit, the higher the payout becomes. Says Clare Hinkley, policy adviser...
...Qaeda has not been the only threat. Prior to September 11th, Hizballah had killed more Americans than any other terrorist group," FBI Director Robert Mueller said last year. Just three weeks ago, two alleged Hizballah soldiers were among several individuals indicted in Detroit - also in a cigarette smuggling scheme that the government said is linked to Hammoud's. Prosecutors allege that they, too, were raising money for Hizballah. And TIME has learned that the FBI is investigating the activities of hundreds of suspected Hizballah members or sympathizers in the U.S. - including several dozen ?migr?s believed to be hard-core Hizballah...
...longtime observer of Americans' saving and investing habits, I hope that any inequities in the Bush proposal are treated by Congress as flaws to be fixed rather than as deal killers. Unlike any previous scheme, Bush's plan has a shot at solving our country's biggest long-term financial problem: about half of us simply don't save. With streamlined tax-deferred options and no-questions-asked LSA withdrawals, Americans might feel they can save without locking up their money for decades. Fears that unrestricted LSAs would lead some undisciplined savers to ruin--they would bleed their accounts...