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Why India’s Garment Factories Are Unreliable for New Workers
Shortage of Medical Isotopes Ramps Up After Reactor Closing- July 2009
Cooking for the Gods-July 2009
State of the Finance Industry: FINS Survey Results-July 2009
CIT Group’s 5,000 Employees Hang in the Balance of Company’s Credit Crisis-July 2009
Is Pandit’s Clock Ticking at Citi?-July 2009
Brits Hope to Curb Risky Banker Behavior With Pay Regulation-July 2009
New Regulations in U.K. and U.S. Put Penalties on Trading Misconduct – July 2009
Ex-Goldman Employee Sergey Aleynikov Sparks Spy Scandal- July 2009
Radio documentary: Garage scientists
Amatuer biologists grow bacteria, replicate DNA, sequence genomes in their homes. DIY-bio is an attempt to make biology accessible to all.
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Columbia News Service
Velociraptors attack innocents
Farmers sell corn, soy, rye … carbon?
Weaseling out of the ferret ban
Interactive design: where fashion, technology and art meet and mingle
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High Pay is Back on Wall Street
July 2009: Old habits are hard to break on Wall Street, which looks like it may be back to lofty pay packages of 2007.
Goldman Sachs is poised to pay out about $20 billion this year, which comes to a cool $700,000 per employee. This is a few thousands higher than compensation in the boom-days of 2007.
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NY State Sets Paymets to Egg Donors for Stem Cell Research
JUNE 2009: New York has become the first state to pay women for donating egg cells for taxpayer-funded research into embryonic stem cells, according to the Washington Post. New York’s Empire State Stem Cell Board will offer as much as $10,000 in state funds to a qualified donor.
While in-vitro fertilization clinics usually pay donors, researchers who work with stem cells for therapeutic cloning face unclear rules depending on which state they live in. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences guidelines issued in 2005 discourage compensation to avoid the exploitation of poor people by labs.
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- InTheFray Magazine
JUNE 2009: It is 6 a.m. Monday. The winter sun has not yet risen, but slowly, shadows of men flit through the dark. They gather against the bare rock walls of Pare de Sufrir Church in Woodside.
And in the morning emptiness, the laborers of Roosevelt Avenue begin their daylong vigil for temporary work.
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What’s in my closet? A biology lab
- Columbia News Service
APRIL 2009: They belong to DIYbio, a biology movement that places experimentation in the hands of amateurs. The idea is to infiltrate basic science, a field that has become increasingly clublike over the years because of specialization of knowledge. Some see it as a return to the era of scientists making important discoveries in their home labs.
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Amid few jobs, construction worker struggles to cope
Dec 2008: Raoul Osario used to earn $2000 a month; now he tries to support himself and his nine-year-old son, Jonathan, with just $130.
“I could afford anything for the first 45 years of my life,” said Osario, 50, a superintendent of a building in Jackson Heights, Queens. He started working in this building in 2003 for $130 and a basement apartment for which he doesn’t have to pay rent or utilities. Osario supplemented the small income earned there with contract construction jobs, such as putting up and repairing air conditioning and refrigerators, which brought him a monthly income of up to $2000.
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