Article — From the July 2009 issue
Labor’s Last Stand
The corporate campaign to kill the Employee Free Choice Act
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Article — From the July 2009 issue
The corporate campaign to kill the Employee Free Choice Act

Percentage of the French who think it “somewhat” or “very” possible they will one day become homeless:

Neuroscientists found that sloths sleep around nine and a half hours a day. Previous research had studied only captive sloths, who sleep on average sixteen hours a day, possibly because they are bored and depressed.

A young man who lied to Berlin police about having lived for five years in a forest was revealed to have run away from home because he disliked his internship.