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...public option could save a significant amount of money, particularly if its payments to providers are tied to Medicare's reimbursement rates, as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi would prefer. That, however, would likely bring strong opposition from doctors, hospitals and other health-care providers, who complain that they are underpaid by Medicare, as well as many moderate Democrats. (See 10 players in health-care reform...
...Connor’s opinion, museum security guards are also underpaid, unmotivated, and generally lack the sort of sentimental attachment that deterred him from stealing from the previously-mentioned gallery. He doubts that many guards would risk injury or death to protect the art within their galleries. “I think there are some that are foolish enough,” Connor says. “I mean, obviously, one pursued me down the steps of the MFA, but it depends on the individual...
...alcohol for Muslims," says Yahya Amma, the head merchant at the Agriculture Suq, one of the largest khat markets in the city. "You can chew it and still go to prayers." The leaf's energy-boosting and hunger-numbing properties help university students focus on their homework, allows underpaid laborers to work without meals and, according to local lore, offers the same help to impotent men that Westerners seek in Viagra. Evening khat ceremonies - regular salon gatherings (usually only of men) to chew and chat about matters great and small - are the country's basic form of socializing. (Read...
...immediate implications of something like the Kindle is that it is comparatively tree-friendlier than books. You might even be able to consider the Kindle as Green Technology—if you ignore the environmental costs of manufacturing it as well as the quality of life of the underpaid Chinese laborers who assemble it. Perhaps books are old-fashioned, but at least they biodegrade. Can you put Kindles in the compost heap?All its technology and environmental politics aside though, the Kindle bothers me most because it ruins the organic experience of reading. To those who might celebrate the Greenness...
...economic force he felt he could influence: illegal immigration. Although St. Helens has a relatively small Hispanic community - some legal, some illegal - the town is just 30 miles (about 50 km) from major population centers like Portland and Beaverton, close enough that out-of-town contractors with crews of underpaid, underdocumented construction workers began bidding on jobs around town eight years ago, says Mayo. Local contractors had a stark choice: either go out of business or stop paying their workers enough to support their families. (See pictures of three generations of immigrant workers...