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...dominated by a Ron Arad silver staircase called The Wave. Inside, 2,500 workers?50% of whom are second-generation employees?turn out an average of 15,000 shoes a day. Their kids go to nursery school on the premises, and the workers eat freshly cooked meals in the cafeteria...
Revenues? That's nice, but for all the dealmaking and dollars bandied about, no one is able to say with certainty when this distribution cafeteria will turn into a viable business with real profits. In traditional broadcasting, networks make money by charging advertisers for commercial space--an effective and time-tested financial model. With the $1.99 downloads, nets stand to make about $1.39--compared with 44˘ per household typically earned from ads on an hour-long drama. But new-media ventures are still in their nascent stages. NBC estimates it will make $10 million from iTunes downloads...
...Canadians are good at sliding stones but, as CanWest sportswriter Cam Cole noted, they are pretty great at sliding headfirst on cafeteria trays. Canada is now a skeleton superpower, finishing 1-2-4 in the men's event and adding a bronze in the women's. What did the face-first sliders do right? "Even though skeleton is an individual sport, the athletes learned to work together and trust each other," says skeleton team manager Teresa Schlachter. There was a support team--coaches, sport scientists, massage therapists, video experts and nutritionists--"passionate about what they do, who worked together...
...Ward Democrats gathered Saturday afternoon in the cafeteria of the Graham and Parks Alternative Public School in Cambridge to elect eight delegates—all of them pro-Patrick—to the party’s June convention...
...cold day in Ottawa last week, Stephen Harper sauntered into the fifth-floor cafeteria in Parliament's Centre Block and ordered a cheeseburger, a Coke and a Caesar salad. He loaded the food onto his tray and, as he does most lunchtimes, headed back to his office. As ever, Harper projected the image of a cerebral, shy, slightly standoffish man, a politician who has never seemed quite at home in boisterous Ottawa. Yet there was one thing changed in his routine: next to Harper stood two bulky plainclothes bodyguards. You get them when...