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...lifespan, needs to be replaced as soon as possible. And he has publicly criticized his bosses at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for not acting quickly enough. If QuickScat were to go on the blink, he claims, the accuracy of the center's three-day hurricane forecasts could drop...
...beautiful, beautiful country. [Continental Drifter is] my boat - in its third version right now. I'm looking at the Scandinavian countries that have very good boatyards there, because there's a possibility of a fourth version. And if there ever was a fourth boat, we could well drop a hook in Reykjavik...
...economy has also undergone significant re-engineering to loosen some of its infamous rigidities. The government has cut corporate taxes and reduced the burden of some nonwage costs on business, such as pensions and health care. It has shaken up its labor market, which has led to a drop in unemployment (although the proportion of jobless, at 8.8%, is still well above the European average). The move to ever shorter working hours that culminated in the 35-hour week in the late 1980s has been reversed; millions of Germans have been working longer in the past two to three years...
...Drop in on BMW's Leipzig plant, and you can see what he means. It's the firm's newest, having opened just two years ago, with a luminous open-plan central building that houses white-collar workers and managers. It was designed by London-based architect Zaha Hadid, and its most striking feature is a conveyor belt that meanders inside the building just below roof level, carrying a steady stream of cars from the body shop to the paint shop. You can see it from almost everywhere in the building, including the cafeteria...
...night. Says Inspector Jason Hewett, the policing development manager: "The goal is for zero tolerance." He is confident authorities are already having some success. "I'm being careful here-and homicides could happen in 30 minutes-but there have been no murders since November and that's a significant drop in violence." Nevertheless, he says, "there have been eight murders in this district in relation to youth gangs, and that's too many. Another one is probably likely-and entirely unnecessary and unwanted...