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...When world trade picks up, the cardboard-box industry can't help smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Contents: Oct. 27, 2003 | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...celebrate a great enabler of global trade. No, not the Internet but rather a humble yeoman of commerce without which the Internet would be all ordering and no delivery. We are talking about the corrugated container, better known as the cardboard box. How could we even connect to the Internet without the cardboard boxes that brought us our computers? And how would those myriad goods we order reach us without cardboard boxes? Although e-commerce accounts for only a fraction of cardboard-box sales, it is a very fast-growing fraction and likely a big part of cardboard's future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Commerce: Trade Maker | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...that if the company hires friends and relatives, everyone will be more likely to get along. Once or twice a year, store managers and assistants are taken to corporate retreats, where they spend a good deal of their time doing silly activities like making small boats out of cardboard, tape and empty milk cartons. Salesmen are encouraged to tune TVs in their stores to sports events, set up putting greens, throw around Nerf footballs and take in doughnuts or pizza for themselves and the customers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Managing: Profiting From Fun | 10/13/2003 | See Source »

...bombed, its door cascading with a mountain of debris made up of burned and broken empty vials. The intact other building was packed to the rafters with boxes full of glassware and beakers. Pigeons roost in the ceiling, their droppings and feathers--some of it inches thick--caking the cardboard towers. Nothing appears to have been moved in a long time. U.S. intelligence officials declined to tell TIME about Washington's postwar assessment of the site...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Chasing A Mirage | 10/6/2003 | See Source »

Joined by six Nobel Laureates, they also witnessed the authors of an academic paper entitled “Chickens Prefer Beautiful Humans” accept a prize consisting of a plastic box mounted on a cardboard sheet as part of the 13th annual Ig Nobel awards...

Author: By Kimberly A. Kicenuik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: At Ig Nobels, Scientists Win For Humor | 10/3/2003 | See Source »

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