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U.S. / NEWS Mon Jan 28, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- Church became his life's work Hinckley's grandfather knew church founder Joseph Smith and followed Brigham Young west to the Great Salt Lake Basin. He often spoke of the Mormon heritage of pioneer sacrifice and its importance as a model for the modern.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Mar 16, 2007 @ 1:09am neoform

SF Gate -- President Bush wrapped up his Latin America tour on Wednesday with a pledge to Mexican President Felipe Calderon that he would seek an accord that straddles the middle ground between amnesty to illegal residents and booting out more than 12 million people.. Read More

U.S. / OPINION Wed Feb 7, 2007 @ 1:09pm mrmdc

NPR -- An America where some have more money than others is nothing new. But in the past generation, the financial gap between the rich and everyone else has grown ever wider... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 9:30am mrmdc

SF Gate -- Huber Herrera coughed into his sleeve. He ran over to a trash can to dispose of some tissues. He no longer had a fever, but he'd had one over the weekend when he showed up for his shift in a downtown San Francisco restaurant.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Apr 15, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

SF Gate -- The city of San Francisco is poised to spend millions of dollars extra to hire a sewage-hauling company that failed to meet the city's criteria despite offers from a competitor that wants to do the dirty work for less. The Board of Supervisors is expec.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Jan 31, 2008 @ 8:12am neoform

SF Gate -- The Presidio Trust's announcement Wednesday that it will work with Gap founder Don Fisher on a new museum to display his vast modern art collection is being billed as a major cultural development for the military base turned national park and one that mor.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Sep 13, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

USA Today -- Christian Ocampo makes about $200 a day selling nutritional supplements to fellow Hispanics in Milwaukee. His income helps support his mother, who uses a wheelchair, and his 21-year-old sister. If Ocampo misses work, he doesn't get paid. On Wednesda.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Tue Aug 14, 2007 @ 8:05am neoform

USA Today -- As politicians wrangled over the future of the collapsed Mississippi River bridge, more heavy rain pelted the area, threatening to delay recovery work. New storms moved in overnight after weekend thunderstorms slowed divers still seeking the bodies of.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri Aug 10, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

USA Today -- The frenetic effort to drill into the presumed location of six workers trapped in a collapsed mine yielded no audible evidence of survivors early Friday. But rescuers cautioned their work isn't done and that air quality in the mine could sustain life... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Aug 2, 2007 @ 9:39am neoform

MSNBC -- The Bush administration has shown little progress — and in some cases backtracked — on its pledge to do a better job in awarding contracts to small, Gulf Coast businesses for Hurricane Katrina work, a congressional analysis shows. The review of fed.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Wed Jul 11, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

CNN -- Models younger than 16 should be banned from catwalks during London Fashion Week over fears that some girls are developing eating disorders because of their work in the industry, fashion experts have recommended. The new rules were proposed after a panel.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sat May 26, 2007 @ 10:23am neoform

Washington Post -- Two jobs?" blares a poster at a bus shelter here. The words are in Spanish over a picture of a tired-looking Hispanic woman in a janitor's uniform. "Work and Work but You Still Can't Get Ahead?" reads another ad on a bus shelter down the street. At the bo.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 25, 2007 @ 8:24am neoform

BBC News -- A man in the US is suing IBM for $5m in a wrongful dismissal case after he was fired for visiting adult internet chat rooms while at work. James Pacenza, 58, says he was addicted to online chat rooms and that IBM should have offered him sympathy and tr.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 4:57pm neoform

USA Today -- Many in Mexico expressed disappointment Friday with the U.S. Congress' immigration reform proposal, arguing it doesn't let enough Mexicans enter the United States legally to work, while focusing on an arduous path to residency for those who have already t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 3:02pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Many in Mexico expressed disappointment Friday with the U.S. Congress' immigration reform proposal, arguing it doesn't let enough Mexicans enter the United States legally to work, while focusing on an arduous path to residency for those who have already t.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Fri May 18, 2007 @ 8:17am neoform

Washington Post -- A stepped-up inspection of D.C. fire hydrants is finding that nearly 10 percent don't work, fire union officials said yesterday. Firefighters doing the testing said they think that more than 900 hydrants across the city are not in working order, posing.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Thu Mar 8, 2007 @ 8:21am neoform

Yahoo News -- Farmer Phil Prutch isn't sure about putting Colorado convicts to work in his fields this summer. But then again, he says, he doesn't have much of a choice. Somebody has to pick the crops. Prutch has 15 acres of rotting peppers to show what happens if s.. Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Jan 28, 2007 @ 9:54am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Health campaigners today condemned an NHS trust for asking its staff to resign, work for no pay or take unpaid leave in order to reduce its multimillion-pound deficit... Read More

U.S. / NEWS Sun Dec 17, 2006 @ 11:11pm neoform

www.recordonline.com -- Kristopher P. Maldonado of Yonkers took his holiday security job at Woodbury Commons very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that he showed up to work earlier today wearing an illegal night stick and collapsible baton in his duty belt... Read More