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HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — For school bus driver Jamille Aine, a cold is more than an inconvenience. His employer does not offer paid sick days, so if he can't shake the bug, he may not be able to pay his bills.
Some 46 million U.S. workers lack paid sick days, but lawmakers in 12 states — including California, Connecticut, Minnesota and West Virginia — have proposed leg...
Motivation is central to human behaviour. Yet although doctors and nurses begin as some of the most motivated people in the country, the NHS seems hell-bent on annihilating this drive.
How many colleagues can't wait to retire? It is sad to see gifted doctors and nurses desperate to leave - their talents decried, efforts opposed, dedication undermined and motivation stifled.
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BEIJING (AP) — Hua Guofeng, who briefly ruled China as communist founder Mao Zedong's successor but was pushed aside as a prelude to reforms that launched an economic boom, died Wednesday at the age of 87, state-run media reported.
State broadcaster CCTV said that Hua died of an unspecified illness.
He took power after Mao's death in September 1976, but saw his powers erode...
WASHINGTON — The world's richest industrial countries are calling for increased economic support for war-torn Georgia.
Finance ministers from the Group of Seven issued a joint statement Wednesday pledging support for Georgia's economy and its financial system.
The G7 also urged other countries and institutions to assist in the effort.
In a statement, the group said th...
TORONTO — The Toronto stock market surged about 150 points in early trading Wednesday in a broad-based advance led by energy stocks as oil prices moved higher for a second day, raising hopes that crude prices and oil stocks have stabilized.
Higher oil muted New York market gains but techs were stronger in the wake of a well-received earnings report from Hewlett Packard.
Toron...
FAMILIES are moving in together to beat budget pressures and save money on housing costs.
More than 130,000 Australian households now contain three generations of the same family -- many of whom are battling to make ends meet, census data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows.
For some, it is the only way to cut the cost of living and meet the care needs of younger and olde...
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — BJ's Wholesale Club Inc. posted a slightly higher second-quarter profit on Wednesday and raised its full-year earnings forecast as frugal shoppers look for deals at discounters.
But shares in the nation's third-biggest warehouse club dropped more than 6 percent, or $2.69, to $37.99 in afternoon trading, possibly on investor concerns about pricing and the eco...
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LONDON (AP) - Adrian Sudbury, a young British journalist who blogged about his fight with cancer and campaigned for more bone marrow donations, died in his sleep Wednesday, his family said. He was 27.
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FREDERICTON — Federal Liberals are calling on Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his government to be more generous with compensation for victims of Agent Orange testing in New Brunswick.
Andy Scott, the Liberal MP for Fredericton, says it's unfair that so many people have been eliminated from compensation due to the government's decision to limit payments to people still living o...
The November 2004 hospitalization of four people who visited a Botox clinic in Oakland Park prompted the Food and Drug Administration to launch a nationwide investigation. The four had been injected with an unregulated version of Botox and suffered from severe botulism poisoning.
The investigation has led to 68 arrests and 29 convictions of individuals who purposely injected an unapproved...
CANTON, Ohio (AP) — A Canadian couple finally took a restaurant up on an offer that arrived 15 years ago — by balloon. For its 1993 grand opening, Nicky's Restaurant in Canton released balloons with attached cards good for a free dinner for two.
One of the balloons made it across Lake Erie and into the backyard of Margaret and Ken Savory in Waterford, Ontario. They were tre...
PITTSBURGH (AP) — A former gym teacher who had sex with a 14-year-old freshman and sent him erotic text messages was sentenced Wednesday to up to three years in prison, in part because she called the boy after she was charged, a judge ruled.
The teenager's family had been willing to settle for a sentence less than prison until they found out Beth Ann Chester had contacted him, pro...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate John McCain chided his Democratic rival on Wednesday for getting "a little testy" as Barack Obama sharpened his tone amid a tightening White House race.
"I honor his service. I don't honor his policies. I don't honor his politics," Obama said, taking on his GOP opponent with renewed vigor while some Democrats fret that their can...
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OTTAWA — Canada’s stores of fresh water are not as plentiful as once thought, and water shortages threaten to pinch the economy and pit provinces against each other, says a newly released document.
An internal report drafted last December by Environment Canada warns that climate change and a growing population will f...
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SPOKANE, Wash. (Map , News ) - A fire crew supervisor who admitted lying to investigators about the deaths of four wildland firefighters during a central Washington blaze in 2001 was sentenced to three months of work release Wednesday.
Ellreese Daniels, 47, headed a team of wildland firefighters sent in to mop ...
Australia's only world no.1 track and field athlete going into these games, javelin thrower Jarrod Bannister, talks to Jessica Halloran.
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