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...known at Dell, management was denying planned job cuts. On D-day, officers from the Texas Department of Public Safety showed up at the Dell campus to escort the doomed to their cars. Workers were encouraged to sign "the bribe," an agreement not to discuss their package or sue Dell, in exchange for up to four extra weeks of severance...
...Bush flip-flop on carbon-dioxide emissions: Looks as though we can't read Dubya's lips either! Like father, like son? SUE HEIGELE Duncanville, Texas...
...skeptic, all evidence is anecdotal. But some anecdotes are more than encouraging; they are inspiring. Consider Sue Cohen, 54, an accountant, breast-cancer survivor and five-year yoga student at the Unity Woods studio in Bethesda, Md. "After my cancer surgery," Cohen says, "I thought I might never lift my arm again. Then here I am one day, standing on my head, leaning most of my 125-lb. body weight on that arm I thought I'd never be able to use again. Chemotherapy, surgery and some medications can rob you of mental acuity, but yoga helps compensate...
...last straw? On Thursday, the Bush administration announced it would seek to eliminate a provision of the Endangered Species Act that allows private groups to sue the Department of the Interior to add plants and animals to the official "endangered" list (and therefore make them subject to federal protection). The move, criticized by one environmental leader as "an invitation to extinction," would maintain the right to sue on paper - but would discourage petitions by reducing the Interior Department's budget for dealing with citizen actions, leaving suits filed by tenacious groups or individuals languishing on dusty shelves...
...Douglas Candland, a professor of animal behavior at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa., argues that Bush's decision sends the wrong message to Americans. "The right to sue under the Endangered Species Act is an issue of guardianship," Cartland says. "In the same spirit as I could report neighbors abusing their children, the act provides me with an avenue to report the abuse of wild animals." Cartland also worries that Bush's decision may affect the U.S.'s standing in the world. "Once again, our government is acting like our interests are the only ones involved," he says...