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| Sat, 8 Apr 2006 18:00:00 EST Mortimer B. Zuckerman: A little sanity, please |
| The colliding slogans of the immigration debate-"stop illegal aliens" versus "remember, we are a nation of immigrants"--fail to explain some complicated truths. The first is that America is a different place from 50 years ago. Then, half of American men didn't finish high school and entered the workforce as unskilled laborers. Today, over 90 percent finish high school and shun unskilled, low-wage jobs. Yet our increasingly automated service economy is driven by low-skilled workers. The Department of Labor estimates that we will need 7.7 million more in the next decade alone. At the same time, we are desperately short of skilled professionals in science, medicine, and technology. In fact, the U.S. labor force is skewed. It is predominantly composed of people who possess skills that overqualify them for the lowest-skilled jobs and underqualify them for the highest. |
| Sat, 8 Apr 2006 18:00:00 EST Is your fave posh hotel full for summer? Try these new inns |
| Room service, get me a room! It hasn't quite come to that, but with record-high occupancy rates predicted for summer, vacationers need to get busy and book. The luxury hotels below are a good bet, but even they're filling up. |
| Sat, 8 Apr 2006 18:00:00 EST Incredible shrinking trips |
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