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Should the U.S. Government Mandate Vacation for Workers?
 There are laws in 127 countries mandating vacation time for workers, but not in the U.S., and workers in Europe get up to six weeks off.
One in four American workers don't get any time off paid - and of course, people here work more any in other industrialized nations.
In a recent interview for Marketplace, Joe Robinson is on the board of Take Back Your Time, a group campaigning for a federal law that would require businesses to give employees 15 days of paid vacation.
Here are some interesting items about what they call "Time Poverty":
- We're putting in longer hours on the job now than we did in the 1950s, despite promises of a coming age of leisure before the year 2000.
- In fact, we're working more than medieval peasants did, and more than the citizens of any other industrial country.
- Mandatory overtime is at near record levels, in spite of a recession.
Makes you think...maybe those really were the "good old days".
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Patricia Fripp
How are great speeches and presentations like classic Hollywood movies?
Movie promoters say that a successful film has to have five magic moments for each viewer, though not necessarily the same five. When it does, people will talk about it and add enough energy to a paid advertising campaign to make it a hit.
Be sure each presentation has five great moments--dramatic, humorous, profound, or poignant--that the audience can relive in their minds later and repeat to their friends.
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Moms Making A Difference Saving Children's Lives
 Angelina Jolie is more than an American actress, winning an Academy Award and three Golden Globe awards. Jolie is internationally recognized as being a voice for millions of refugees and internally displaced people around the world.
She is the mother of two sons, Maddox Chivan and Pax Thien and two daughters, Zahara Marley and Shiloh Nouvel. Many credit the recent rise of adoptions of African born children to Jolie.
In early 2001, Angelina Jolie approached the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) asking how she could help refugees. She wanted to learn more about humanitarian field operations. Shortly after spending a day in briefings with UNHCR in Washington DC, she was on her way to Ivory Coast, Tanzania and Sierra Leone, where she spent several weeks meeting refugees and working with UNHCR field staff.
Soon, Jolie was named UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, accepting the responsibility of meeting with and advocating for the protection of refugees on five continents.
For over five years, Jolie has travelled with UNHCR to remote and desolate regions, meeting refugees and field workers in some 20 countries and regions including Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Ivory Coast, Pakistan, Cambodia, Thailand, Ecuador, Kenya, Namibia, Kosovo, Sri Lanka, the Russian Federation, Jordan, Egypt, Chad, Sudan's Darfur region, Lebanon, India and Costa Rica.
She has kept journals during several of her missions. Journals of her first four missions were published two years ago in a book, "Notes from My Travels, Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador" (October 2003, Simon and Schuster).
In addition to her field work, Jolie is a dedicated advocate for refugee rights, meeting with senior government officials in many countries. She is also active with schools and promotion of UNHCR's education materials. Jolie is an active participant in World Refugee Day on 20 June each year, hosting public events and speaking to the media about her concern for refugees.
For World Refugee Day in 2006, Jolie appeared in a 30-second TV spot and urged the world not to forget refugees. Her message was broadcast around the world in public service time. She was also the featured guest in an unprecedented two-hour interview with CNN, which was broadcast on World Refugee Day. She emphasized the important role the private sector can play in empowering refugees, enhancing their skills set and ensuring they are positive change agents for development.
Jolie, without a doubt, has been a great influencer of change and campassion in the last decade.
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