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...percent a year, it’s going to drive all the juice out of it. It’s just going to be terrible. You can see it in the networks, you can see it in a lot of papers that are part of a larger chain. It’s a wonderful profession, and the talent is out there. A lot of bright young people want to be journalists, but the number of places where they do serious reporting has gone down in my lifetime. I think that’s particularly true of the networks, where...
...Hawala hurts the national economies of developing countries desperate for foreign exchange deposits, but every individual in the chain has the incentive of earning a commission. And that's what keeps the networks going. "People know that salaries cannot buy the good things," says Ali, one of thousands of operatives in an underground banking world that stretches from New York to Tokyo. "You need a little extra." Even at a cost of enabling crime and terrorism...
There were those drivers who honked as they passed, offering a handful of quick beeps on the horn, a wave or thumbs-up to the chain of perfectly ordinary people that stretched along cordoned-off roadsides from Hopkinton to the heart of Boston. These people were not easy to miss. The chain was dense in some places and rather sparse in others, but these were people for whom the police departments of Hopkinton, Natick, Wellesley Newton and even Boston itself were stopping traffic; they were ordinary people who, with no special preparation, had climbed out of bed that morning...
...companies, such as Intel and United Technologies, are bracing for the call-up of the Reserves, which will sap those organizations of expertise that isn't easily replaced. And new, tougher security measures for cargo at airports, shipping ports and border crossings could disrupt the just-in-time supply chain that has been one of the key accelerators of growth during the past decade. Companies could be forced to carry higher, costlier levels of inventory. With critical parts delayed at the U.S.-Canada border, Ford, General Motors, DaimlerChrysler and Toyota have had to idle assembly lines and reduce production...
...with Vinnie, Vietnam vet and checker master, the Harvard Square character shared his game strategy with an FM staffer: “I’m going to make you disappear. Well, not you. Your checkers. I don’t ever want you to leave. I want to chain you to my bed.” Then he tried to seal the deal with a sloppy kiss. Now that doesn’t happen at Daedalus...