Here you are with your own company. You don't get to write code any more (or you shouldn't be writing code, anyway). There's a lot of petty stuff you have to deal with. One of the worst is adjudicating sick days, personal days,...
The salmonella toll continues to mount in what has become the largest foodborne outbreak in the United States in more than a decade. With the latest cases reported as of July 4, the nationwide toll from Salmonella Saintpaul now stands at 1,148 people in 42 states, the District of...
BOSSY Irish brides are telling wedding guests where they can and can't buy their wedding outfits. The fed-up wives-to-be are sick of guests outshining their bridesmaids on their big day - by turning up in the exact same outfit. So now they...
ARRIVEDERCI Shaunio. Farewell Postman Prat. "I've done it all," he told Davina as she conducted the latest of her hopeless eviction interviews. What fake Italian Mario - real name Shaun Astbury - has actually done is spent most of his dreary little...
The Week in Arts One of the brightest young stars in film today is Ben Barnes. He plays Prince Caspian in the new Narnia film, is a Brit, a sex symbol, a big talent, and a troubled man. He revealed in an interview this week that he...
The governor's plan to force most state employees to work four 10- hour workdays doesn't make sense for many reasons. Plain and simple, it won't work for everyone. Single parents with children in day care, for instance. Next are public transportation issues, Many who now ride the...
Time to grow up I thank the Topeka firefighters for all they do for us, but could that include acting like adults as part of their job description? We have all had a boss or two we didn't like or get along with. It goes with the...
Doreen Rosimos of Marlborough, N.H., brought along her Rottweiler, Zelda, when she went on an assignment in Kentucky. When Zelda became sick one day, Rosimos, who heads a firm that funds micro-enterprises, quickly typed "veterinarian" into her car's global-positioning device GPS, and found one nearby within minutes. The...
Saves Businesses Money, Becomes Essential Part of Recruitment and Retention Strategy DALLAS, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Dallas-area employers are losing millions of dollars in productivity each year when their employees are not able to come to work because of breakdowns in child care. When school is closed,...
MEDIA DIARY Is there any societal ill beyond the range of Noel Edmonds? There is so much more to the man than doling out Christmas presents to sick children without a passing thought for the personal publicity, and in the last few days alone the Isaiah Berlin...
SHAMELESS star Jody Latham has been banned from driving after he was clocked speeding at 108mph. Latham, 25, who played teenage dad Philip "Lip" Gallagher in the Channel 4 hit series, was late for an interview when stopped on January 19. He said he was delayed...
THE Government's top intelligence adviser was still fighting for life last night after collapsing into a coma five days ago. Alex Allan, 57, chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee JIC, fell ill on Monday. While it is still not clear why he...
JERUSALEM AFP — Israel reopened border crossings to the Gaza Strip on Sunday that were closed when a rocket was fired from the Hamas-ruled territory in defiance of a two-week-old truce. "The Sufa, Nahal Oz, and Erez crossings are open for the passage of goods, including cement and...
'He's flat on his back and he's sick as a parrot. He's phoning me every 10 minutes giving me chapter and verse on how many times he has visited the loo' Sir Alan Sugar, on the first-day absence of The Apprentice winner Lee McQueen...
EDUCATION QUANDARY Hilary's advice Exam boards have procedures for candidates who need special consideration because of illness, accident, trauma or crisis, including a ladder of allowances from 1 per cent of marks for a headache to 5 per cent for a terminal illness. ...
An 84-year-old woman died at a Burlington County hospital Monday night two days after drinking tiki torch lamp oil that she had mistaken for apple juice. Four other people across New Jersey have gotten sick since May from accidentally drinking the amber liquid, prompting state officials to issue a health...
Altitude sickness BYU's Trent Plaisted worked out for the Jazz last week but apparently didn't impress. They passed on him twice in the draft, instead opting for Ohio State's Kosta Koufos and Croatia's Ante Tomic with 23rd and 44th picks. Plaisted was selected 46th...
GENEVA AFP — A new test to screen for drug-resistant tuberculosis will greatly help the fight against the disease in developing countries, the World Health Organisation WHO said on Monday. The test, which involves examining DNA in the saliva of sick people, will provide a diagnosis within two...
From the study of their Kent home, a British couple are saving lives by putting the sick and injured from war zones in touch with expert medical opinion. By Terri Judd Medicine without frontiers At his wits' end, the doctor in Baghdad dispatched...
OPENING the mail the other day, I found a letter marked with those three sick-making words: Penalty Charge Notice. But I haven't been given a parking fine - what's going on? Turns out I was caught stopping for a few minutes outside the train station to let my mother-in-law out...
Articles 2008-06-29
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