Disney workers win clean undergarment concession at theme park
After two months at negotiations Walt Disney World costumed performers including Mickey Mouse and Cinderella gain a contract clause requiring individual undergarments issued to each worker and laundered after every shift. Workers had cited lice and scabies concerns and lags in proper cleaning.
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Animal Kingdom
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Rena Callahan
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Humans blamed for late Pleistocene mega-extinctions
Two Science studies argue early human hunters with fire and spears drove large animals to extinction in Australia and the Americas within thousands of years after arrival. In the Americas about 73 percent of large herbivores and the saber tooth cat vanished within roughly 1,200 years after humans reached the continents 13,600 years ago. In Australia, bone dating links mass losses to about 46,000 years ago, within 10,000 years of human arrival, with 55 species affected including giant flightless birds and enormous marsupials.
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John Alroy
University of California, Santa Barbara
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Linda Ayliffe
University of Utah
Salt Lake City
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Cats pounce on video game in New York experiment
Amy the three month old tiger striped cat watches a monitor and swats at a virtual mouse in CyberPounce the first software program aimed at a non human audience. Matt Wolf of Los Angeles discusses feline unpredictability and the game’s design for cats and owners.
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