A Chinese court has jailed two officials after they let a blind contractor build a bridge which collapsed during construction and injured 12 people, the official Xinhua news agency said Monday.
Huang Wenge, township head of Bujia in the southeastern province of Jiangxi, and colleague Xia Jianzhong were sentenced to 18 months and one year in [...]
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George W. Bush isn’t the first Republican president to face a full-blown immigration crisis on the US-Mexican border.
Fifty-three years ago, when newly elected Dwight Eisenhower moved into the White House, America’s southern frontier was as porous as a spaghetti sieve. As many as 3 million illegal migrants had walked and waded northward over a period [...]
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I ran across this page awhile ago, but thought you may enjoy these pictures. I had heard of the carrying capacity and ingenuity of those from Vietnam and other countries in the area. But these pictures are humorous and amazing. I mean a whole car body? wth?
Lords of the Logistic
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Wal-Mart Online Job Application - Homeland Stupidity
Are you looking for that ever-elusive online application for a job at Wal-Mart? If so, you need to read this.
If you’re looking to apply for a job at Wal-Mart, I’ve got good news and bad news. First, the bad news.
If you’re trying to apply for a job as an [...]
Sometimes I’m amazed at the creativity of some people who earn a good living filling needs that anyone could do. I was at a gathering today when I struck up a conversation with a man who described his job as a “commute helper.”
“OK, what exactly is a commute helper?” I asked
“I help people have a [...]
For once, a bad boss could be a good thing…
The U.S. labor movement is asking workers to move their complaints about their bosses from the water cooler to the Web.
Working America, the AFL-CIO union federation’s affiliate for nonunion workers, invited workers throughout the country on Monday to share their best stories about their worst bosses [...]
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