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After extending their reach from only a few thousand Americans 30 years ago to about 20 million today, employee-ownership plans have fallen in public esteem. The allure of stock options has faded along with the dotcoms that made them sexy. Enron's collapse has shown the danger of workers...
To see the difference between merely giving stock and letting workers shape their destiny, look at the airline industry. In return for lower wages in 1994, United Airlines pilots and mechanics got more than half the company's stock. But life inside the cockpit and at loading ramps barely changed...
Fuel cells promise to unhitch us from the electrical grid, and that's good. We'll never have to grope for a hotel-room outlet again, and no more waiting for batteries to recharge, either. But details on how costly the devices will be to own and operate are scarce...
"That's what I'd say if I were them," counters Dawn Hudson, Pepsi's senior vice president of strategy and marketing. Beneath Coke's outward calm, executives are seething over the NFL loss. The last thing the company wanted was a high-profile setback while Pepsi was gaining share...
These panic attacks lead me to frantic research. I quickly became aware of a community of aviophobes on the internet. Airline safety junkies abound on the web, debating the advantages of different types of airplanes, rating their safety and giving far too much information for the amateur paranoiac. For example...