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WITH unemployment at a 16-year high in Pennsylvania, here's a lead on a profession in need: State parole agents.
The Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole has long struggled to recruit, hire and retain agents to supervise parolees in Philadelphia. About 110 agents supervised more than 9,350 parolees here at of the end of February. That's 30 agents short of the 140-agent staff the board needs, board spokeswoman Sherry Tate said.
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As much as the Phillies will tell you that they must fight the war with the men they have, it is impossible not to think what some battles might have looked like had suspended reliever J.C. Romero been available.
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SO MUCH television, so little time: * If we've learned nothing else from TV this season, it's that hallucinations are nothing to fool around with, "Ally McBeal" and her dancing baby notwithstanding.
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IF YOU WATCHED the end of "Saturday Night Live" this weekend, you saw Jimmy Fallon (returning to his old stomping grounds as host of "The Barry Gibb Talk Show") holding up a diploma.
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WEST PHILLY native comedian David Brenner kicks off what could be his final tour this week. He plays the Prince (1412 Chestnut) Friday and Saturday.
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THE GIZMO: Computer backup drives from CMS Products and Storage Appliance Corporation. Back in the '80s, pop stars Madonna and Sting sang about living in a "material world." Nowadays, many of our most valuable possessions - documents, correspondence, music, video, photographs and more - reside only as digital bits on a hard-disk drive or flash memory that could go "poof" in a computer crash.
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THE MOVIE that made the most movie-critic Top Ten lists last year was "Wendy and Lucy," and don't ask me why.
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ASK ANY kitchen gardener: The best thing about cultivating a plot of veggies and herbs is being able to walk out the back door and pick something for dinner.
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ACCORDING TO recent reports, our sick economy has many Americans consoling themselves with cheap filler foods high in calories, fat, salt and sugar.
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