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...strum and they threw their bodies into the beat, odds are they were staring up at a man. So what happens to a generation of girls that experiences that same idolatry, that loses itself to the crowd and the guitar—without the brash misogyny of a Robert Plant or a Mick Jagger...
...towns. Since they were built to extend the company's reach and wealth to the south, Fiat factories and nearby parts providers offer the only real job opportunities in a region where unemployment is already above 20%. Giuseppe Lecce, who joined the car company four years after the Cassino plant opened in 1972, was part of a four-hour nationwide strike Friday of all Fiat plants. As a steady drizzle fell, Lecce, 52, gave a quick lesson in local economic history in front of the gate to the plant that produces the company's most popular new model - the Stilo...
...because my work was not normative." Normative? "Well, ordinary, everyday stuff." Bilbao has helped. "Clients see it's possible to do something extraordinary that is not repetition." Hadid's extraordinary designs are now on order in Barcelona (the Arts Plaza in the city center); Leipzig (a car plant); another German city, Wolfsburg (a science center); Rome (a museum of modern art); Salerno, Italy (a ferry terminal); Cincinnati, Ohio (an arts center); Innsbruck, Austria (a café-topped ski jump, which opened last month); Abu Dhabi (a sinuous bridge); and, biggest of all, Singapore, where her team drew up the master...
...tailed bandicoot is noteworthy because it encapsulates the contradictions conservationists face when they rail against the extinction of plants and animals. I drew the bandicoot example from the new book titled The Future of Life by Pellegrino University Research Professor E. O. Wilson, who spoke at ARCO Forum last week about the crisis facing thousands of species of plants and animals that have been driven to the brink of extinction in part by human activity. He makes a very convincing argument that humans can save untold thousands—perhaps even millions—of species by protecting their habitats...
...impasse was costing businesses an estimated $2 billion a day, and threatened an already slumping U.S. economy that depends more than ever on a just-in-time supply chain. The West Coast docks support an estimated 4 million jobs across the U.S. In Fremont, Calif., an auto assembly plant owned jointly by GM and Toyota had to stop production for lack of engines and transmissions, idling 5,100 workers. Such retailers as the Gap, Target and Wal-Mart, which expect to do 40% of their annual business during the holiday season, would suffer a blow to their profits from...