Caregivers Cost U.S. Businesses Billions in Lost Productivity
A MetLife study and a Telaseni can Association report, unveiled before the Senate Aging Committee in Washington, estimate 14.4 million American caregivers cost businesses up to 29 billion annually through absenteeism tardiness and related losses. Nearly 60 percent are late leave early or take extended lunches. 10 percent quit and 11 percent take a formal leave. James Weil of MetLife warns caregiving costs will be a top 21st century challenge.
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New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance
Telaseni
Can
Senate
Washington
James Weil
MetLife
Mature Market Group
Gas well explosion burns in Louisiana swamp
A natural gas well exploded in a Louisiana swamp near Butte La Rose, killing at least three workers. The blaze continued to blaze about 200 feet high the day after the blast. Rescuers could not reach a presumed fourth worker trapped by the fire, while two other men were injured and sixteen workers escaped.
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Butte LA Rose
Louisiana
Beaten and poisoned girl 19 leaves Chicago hospital
A 19 year old victim, known as Girl X, who was sexually assaulted and poisoned at a housing project five months earlier, left Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital for home. She remains unable to walk, see, speak or feed herself but is "fully awake and alert" and will attend a residential school for children with disabilities later this year. She will receive ongoing care and rehabilitation at the Illinois Center for Rehabilitation and Education.
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Chicago
Roach Reller
Girl X
Sas
Schwab Rehabilitation Hospital
Care Net
Ad Tas
Illinois Center For Rehabilitation and Education
Gayle Spul
Schwab
Southern Baptists consider boycott of Disney over gay friendly stance
About 12,000 Southern Baptist delegates may vote on a boycott resolution against Disney theme parks and stores for policies on same sex benefits and events. The issue centers on perceived moral clashes, not a desire to harm Disney, with objections extending to Ellen DeGeneres’s character on ABC.
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Southern Baptist Convention
Walt Disney Co
Disney
Southern Baptist Churches
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Richard Land
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Herb Hollinger
Ellen Degeneres
ABC
Ken
Ellen
Walt Disney Television
Dad who helped son outrun rape charge jailed in Texas
Don Davis Jr., 24, a Texas A&M graduate, fled after rapes in 1995 on campus. His father Don Davis Sr., help elude officers, was convicted of hindering prosecution. Davis Sr. faces up to 10 years. wife Linda had identical charges dropped.
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Don Davis Jr
Texas A&m University
Davis
Don Davis Sr
Bryan
Linda
Brothers in Custody After Videotaped Shootout
Two brothers wanted in a videotaped shootout with Ohio law enforcement officers are in custody after four months on the run. Chevie Kehoe was arrested during a Cedar City traffic stop, while Cheyne Kehoe surrendered in Colville, Washington. The FBI said the brothers shot at a Highway Patrol trooper, a sheriff's deputy, and two officers near Cincinnati, with one exchange captured on a patrol car camera.
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Ohio
Utah
Chevie Kehoe
Cedar City
Cheyne Kehoe
Colville
Wash
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Texas oil-field worker executed for 1987 slayings
A Texas oil-field worker was executed Tuesday for the 1987 murders of three people, including an 11-year-old girl and a former coworker. Ogie Games Johnson, 23rd inmate put to death in 1997, received a lethal injection as Texas advances a record year of capital punishment with another execution planned.
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Pentagon to Release Report on Alien Body Claims
The Pentagon plans a report acknowledging that humanoid dummies, not aliens, fell from high altitude during secret parachute tests. The Air Force allegedly used human-like, hairless dummies in the 1940s and 1950s, leading UFO buffs to claim alien bodies. The report counters that no extraterrestrial visiting occurred and notes past misreports about Roswell and weather balloons.
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Outer Space
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Air Force
Klass
Time Magazine
Denver Welcomes Summit of the Eight Boosting Local Economy
Leaders and journalists from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and Russia will join President Clinton in Denver for a three day summit. Officials say the event will lift Colorado exports and raise Denver's profile as an international city. Big donors and 40 sponsors cover roughly half the summit cost, with Coors contributing 100000 dollars and beer supplied free at hospitality events.
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Colorado International Trade Office
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iTad Wiehiinhes
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Japan
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Bill Coors
Adolph Coors Co
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House GOP in turmoil as infighting risks unity on tax bill
After public disputes, House Republicans aim to pass next week a tax cuts and deficit reduction package. Dissidents seek limits on Speaker Gingrich, with possible no confidence vote discussed. Senate Democrats anticipate a bipartisan tax plan to contrast the House plan.
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House
Newt Gingiich
Georgia
Senate Finance Committee
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Finance Committee
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R-Del
Ways and Means Committee
Voyage reenactment voyage to Greenland stalls in ice laden seas
In Phippsburg Maine the Norse re creator Carter plans a replica ship voyage to Newfoundland retracing Leif Ericsson's 1000 year old route. He cannot hire a container ship to Iceland Greenland so he sails with 12 crew, risking violent North Atlantic storms to reach Greenland and then Newfoundland.
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Maine
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Carter
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Atlantic
International manhunt ends as Kansi arrested in 1993 CLA shootings
Mir Aimat Kansi, a Pakistani suspect tied to the Langley CIA headquarters killings, is captured in Fairfax County after a four year international pursuit with help from Afghan and Pakistani authorities. He faces capital murder charges and possible death penalty if convicted. The case center on the January 25, 1993, shooting spree that killed CIA workers Lansing Bennett and Frank Darling.
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