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...feeling may be the headiest part of the recovery for many months--and will probably be short lived at that, as businesses move quickly from paring inventories to maintaining them. But it's a solid start. Investors have bought into it big time: over two weeks, the Dow has risen 8%; the tech-heavy NASDAQ, 12%. But market sentiment can be fickle. A more encouraging sign is that productivity--which normally declines during recessions as output falls faster than hours worked--amazingly increased during the slump. The Labor Department reported last week that output per worker surged at an annualized...
...attempts to run the border are growing costlier and more dangerous. Since Sept. 11, the demand for smugglers who guide workers through remote crossings has risen, doubling the average fee to $2,000. Tougher enforcement in border cities has pushed migrants to cross through the desert, where some die of dehydration. Francisco Perez has made four solo attempts. Now, he says, "my family will hire someone"--meaning a smuggler to guide him through the desert. Sept. 11 has made it both tougher to cross into the U.S. and ever more urgent...
Since these sex scandals, no new ones have risen to take their place. We are witnessing a shift in what even popular journalists consider fair game. Some people persist in arguing that journalists are justified in airing the dirty laundry of anyone in the public eye: people want dirt and they insist on it. And perhaps we do. After all, a nasty, shocking scandal allows us to live vicariously in a sexy and seedy world that we can only catch a glimpse of in movies, not in our mundane lives...
...used to be. They are still relatively few--2% to 5% of the U.S.'s more than 1 million at-home child-care providers--but in the past five years, the number of men applying for work and the number of families open to hiring them have gradually risen, nanny-agency directors...
Since the dawn of time, man has used the backpack to transport books between dorm rooms and lecture halls. But from deep within the ivy-covered walls of Old Quincy, a suitcase-rolling hero has risen to challenge the hegemony of the bookbag. Just who is this mysterious nonconformist who stalks the Yard with luggage in tow, who dares replace Jansport with Samsonite? What drives him? FM presents an exclusive interview with Travis G. Good ’04. Good is a Crimson executive, but, more importantly, he is The Guy Who Takes a Suitcase to Class...