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Enforcing Fairness, Federal Compliance Agency Draws Flak From Business By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer Texaco Inc. paid $ 3.1 million to settle claims of pay discrimination. The Boeing Co. settled similar claims for $ 4.5 million. CFS Bank of Westbury settled for $ 180,000. In all three cases, individual employees did not file complaints of discrimination. [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer NOT SO LONG ago, Wall Street financiers and dot-com creators ruled Manhattan, while ironworkers and other construction workers were often portrayed as lazy, overpaid union members. On Sept. 11, everything changed. As Gotham’s white-collar residents watched helplessly, blue-collar men and women used their skills to tackle the rubble of the World [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer Hundreds of people flocked to the Winter Garden last night to see the newest collection of plans for the World Trade Center site, in an impromptu opening before today’s official public display of the exhibition featuring nine designs. Commuters on their way to the subway stopped to peruse and ponder [...] By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer Remembering sunny days spent playing with her two children outside the World Trade Center, Vivian Hung hopes those in charge of reconstruction will listen to the opinions of all of lower Manhattan. Hung, who emigrated from China’s Canton province in 1991, said through an interpreter that she worries about the impact [...] Critics: Public had little say on transportation projects By Katia Hetter, Newsday Staff Writer The selection last week of architect Daniel Libeskind’s design for the World Trade Center site capped an intensely public process, marked by large meetings, passionate debates by everyone from scholars to schoolchildren, and thousands of comments from ordinary New Yorkers. Despite that civic outpouring, [...] Think you got food under control? One scientist says, ‘No, you don’t.’ By Katia Hetter People make about 200 food decisions every day, but they don’t actually think about most of them. To show just how mindless those decisions are, food psychologist Brian Wansink took to his laboratory. Here’s what he found: People whose chicken wing bones [...] |
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