RIMBY

"The [latest] cuts are so deep and so fast, it will be impossible for me to react quickly enough to ensure the sustainability of my pharmacy," says Patrick Rurka, an independent pharmacist in Rimby, Alberta.

Married workers included new Chinese immigrants whose garment-industry jobs, according to Xiaolan Bao, transformed family and community patterns, and nurses for whom, as Susan Rimby Leighow shows, hospitals around the country had to establish child care centers.

Jim Linton, Bob Rimby and Virgil Porter Hillside IGA (C) Hillside, N.J.