Caught my eye

in this story about a junior doctors' strike in the UK:

The National Health Service says it employs 1.6 million people, putting it in the top five of the world's largest work forces, alongside the United States Defense Department, McDonald's, Walmart and the Chinese People's Liberation Army.

Postscript

Artist Susan Lenz's post on the actual Florestine dresses as they made their presence felt this weekend. Here is her Flickr set, which includes photos from the 2008 show of the dresses at the McKitterick Gallery; I look very large in this one, alas, but it is nonetheless a nice picture of me (green dress, sunglasses) and college friend Ariane (blue). (Those dresses are a little like the Traveling Pants - they will fit almost anybody, within reason...)