Word: bearings
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...wildly inventive in a way that's reminiscent of early print pioneers like Krazy Cat and Little Nemo in Slumberland. One of the most ambitiously literary--though still bracingly, crudely hilarious--comics on the Web is called Achewood. It's about a loose community of creatures--cats, a bear, a squirrel, a baby otter, a few robots--who are variously wealthy, clinically depressed, psychotic and gay. It swings, sometimes disconcertingly, from funny to sad and back. In one story arc a wealthy pleasure-loving cat named Ray dies and goes to hell, where he's forced to drive...
...days after replacing Nol Forgeard, who was fired last summer. The restructuring plan Gallois unveiled seeks to eliminate duplication and reduce the 16 manufacturing plants to 10. His plan carefully distributes the job cuts. Immediately, politicians and unions in France and Germany started sniping over which side should bear the biggest burden. The three main candidates in the current French presidential-election campaign then promised more intrusion in Airbus' affairs...
...behavior. I don't want to enable monsters. In fact, I don't want to interact with them. But neither do I want to work in an office staffed solely with smiley faces. Imagine American Idol without Simon, House without House, Family Guy without Stewie. Colleagues of Steve Jobs bear the scars, but wouldn't you prefer him on your team than theirs...
Sources: FBI; Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.; International News Safety Institute (3); Forbes; Population Reference Bureau; New York Times; Bear Stearns...
...victims of Darfur and the women of Afghanistan, but who remembers the Bosnian war crimes? Writer-director Jasmila Zbanic’s first film, “Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams,” was nominated for the Sundance Film Festival and awarded the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Zbanic, a 32-year-old Bosnian, tells the story of her struggling country in the aftermath of the war. Esma (Mirjana Karanovic), one of the tens of thousands of rape victims from the Bosnian war, is trying to make ends meet in the eponymous suburb...