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Even without the new regulations, some playground operators could see that changes were needed. "There were horrible metal pieces and concrete that could cut our children," says Judy Davidson, who successfully lobbied to have climbing equipment removed from Community Elementary School 236, where she teaches in the Bronx, N.Y. But in two years of writing grant proposals, Davidson has been unable to replace what a bulldozer demolished in a few minutes. "You know how important it is for them to have a place to climb and play," she laments...
...match to tinder. On Monday, Thomas' mother and 200 other protesters left a three-hour meeting at city hall infuriated by all the unanswered questions. The group began shouting at police. Soon, rocks and bottles were flying. At the center square, people hurled garbage cans into the Tyler Davidson Fountain, where locals have historically gathered to celebrate the end of wars...
...news didn't come as a complete shock. When Davidson started out, money ran freely. "The mood was, 'Gosh, Dell has oodles of loot,'" he says. "'Let's just spend, spend, spend.'" But last spring, when the dotcom bubble burst, everything changed. It was harder to get anything more than a bare-bones computer to work on, and training was halted for several months. "You could practically hear the screws being tightened," says Davidson...
...chose whom to fire. Dell rigorously evaluates its employees, ranking each on a descending 1-to-5 scale; fives get fired first. But performance didn't seem to matter this time. "The first guy in my department to go was the second highest rated on the team," says Davidson. "It was more like a shotgun blast, or a lottery...
...Dell's projections hold, it could be rehiring people like Hutter soon, and some other recent casualties are already saying they intend to be at the front of the line. "Of all the places I've worked, I've never felt more appreciated," says Davidson. "I'd go back in a heartbeat...