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Byline: Chris Baker, THE WASHINGTON TIMES This week's edition of "Now," PBS' distinctive Friday newsmagazine, ends with a close-up of Basil Chapman, a retired West Virginia railroad worker who has been sued by his employer because his retirement has become too costly. "You know, once you retire, you got nobody but the courts," Mr.

Chapman says, his creased face seemingly numb with despair. "You got no labor board. No jurisdiction. They can't help you. Unions? They can't help you because you're retired. You don't belong to the union once you retire. You got nobody." In a world in which the latest twists in the twisted Michael Jackson trial wind up as a lead story on the morning news shows - and above the fold on the front pages of some newspapers - it is...