New York Transit Authority officials conceded that they hire convicted criminals, but they prefer to call their ex-convict employees by such politically correct terms as "criminally challenged," "legally impaired," or "people of alternative conviction status."

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A study has found that left-handed men live 10 years less than right-handers on average, and the reasons are unclear. But the author of the study, psychologist Stanley Coren, thinks it is because of all the stress of being left-handed in a right-handed world. So he wants us to declare war on (his term) "handism"—to expand civil-rights laws to forbid discrimination against lefties.

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In St. Louis, Missouri, the United States Postal Service purchased a building for $12 million from a developer who had bought the building earlier the same day for $4 million.

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