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Work-and-family plan sends staffers important message

When Rachel Rosenberg returned to work after the birth of herson, Ari, five years ago, she went to a part-time, three-day-a-weekschedule.

Although agreeing to the flexible work schedule was aprogressive step for her employer, Continental Bank, there was onelittle thing that bothered her: she had to fill out a time sheet,something required of administrative staffers, not full-timeprofessionals.

"I was still treated professionally, but that was a subtlemessage that said, `You're not a professional if you only work parttime,' " Rosenberg said.

No longer. With a new work-and-family benefit program that goesinto effect at the first of the year, Rosenberg's …

US trustee: Almost half of Madoff losses recovered

NEW YORK (AP) — Nearly half the money invested by thousands of people in Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff's multi-decade fraud has been recovered, a court-appointed trustee announced Thursday as he revealed a settlement that adds more than a billion dollars to the total.

Trustee Irving Picard said the latest agreement was reached with more than a dozen domestic and foreign investment funds, their affiliates and a former chief executive associated with Tremont Group Holdings Inc., a multibillion-dollar money management company based in Rye, just north of New York City.

The settlement will boost recoveries of money available to jilted investors to more than $8.6 billion, …

Third-seeded Melzer advances at Zagreb Indoors

Third-seeded Jurgen Melzer defeated Daniel Brands of Germany 6-4, 6-3 in 94 minutes on Monday to advance to the second round of the Zagreb Indoors ATP tournament.

The lefthanded Austrian served for the first set at 5-3, but was broken by Brands, currently ranked 93rd in the ATP singles rankings. In the next game Melzer broke again to secure the first set.

Brands …

Alzado treated for brain cancer

Lyle Alzado, the former defensive end for the Los Angeles Raidersand Denver Broncos, is undergoing treatment for brain cancer, hisattorney and doctor announced Friday in Los Angeles.

The Los Angeles Times reported that unsteadiness caused by thetherapy and oral cortisone have impaired the 42-year-old.

"Mr. Alzado had progressive dizziness over several weeks,culminating in a loss of right arm, right hand and right legcoordination, slurred speech and double vision," Dr. Robert Huizengasaid. "He is . . . quite unsteady when he walks."

Huizenga said the primary brain lymphoma was diagnosed threeweeks ago. The condition will be treated with radiation therapy …

G/B International makes a 1,820 percent comeback

This is a story about great loss and a reconstruction.

For years, Lee Schiller managed scores of employees as his company shipped everything from food to weapons overseas to U.S. military bases.

But all that experience was for naught when the military downsized in the mid-1980s and then changed its distribution system in the 1990s. From 1970s peak of employing 160 workers for round-the-clock shifts, G&B Packing of Harrisburg was reduced by 1995 to a two-man shop: Schiller and his new partner, Marc Bonawitz.

G&B was hardest hit by the 1985 closure of the New Cumberland Army Depot and the government's decision in 1995 to have private-sector manufacturers send …

EU foreign ministers mum over Obama vs. McCain

Obama or McCain? European Union foreign ministers are staying mum on which U.S. presidential candidate is more popular in Europe.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, who hosted the talks of EU foreign ministers here Friday, refused to be pinned down on which candidate he preferred, Republican candidate John McCain or Democrat Barack Obama.

"Its such a good question that I'm not going to answer that," Kouchner said, grinning. He added that it would be improper for European officials to meddle in the U.S. campaign.

But he said he looked forward to closer cooperation with whoever replaces U.S. President George W. Bush.

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