Chapter 1: Rotations: What is Spinning?

OVERVIEW

School Principal has been on secret administrative leave for one month. Officials will not say why. (Tri City Herald, April 22, 2004)

Internet company Terra Lycos reported that, for the first time since it started, searches for prisoner abuse images last week propelled the war in Iraq to the top of it's "top 10 Search Term" list. (Associated Press, May 15, 2004)

Thousands of laid-off workers will lose job- retraining opportunities because of a little-noticed change in the way the government pays for such programs. Thinly populated states like Iowa will be hardest hit, since many people there work at smaller companies. The new dictate is most likely to affect workers at companies with 150 or fewer employees . National emergency grants which have been used to help workers at shuttered manufacturing plants learn new skills will not be available to many. (Associated Press, May 15, 2004)

The first woman to be appointed Washington State fire marshal has resigned for unexplained reasons after six years in charge. (Daily Olympian, May, 2004)

Two Portland disc jockeys were fired from a local radio station after playing an audiotape of the beheading of American Nick Berg by Iraqi militants and then laughing over the sounds of the grisly death. (Associated Press, May 15, 2004)

Mad cow costs 150 jobs in Fort Morgan. Meatpacker Excel Corp. has laid off 150 employees at its Fort Morgan processing plant, a consequence of mad cow disease (Denver Post, January 11, 2004)