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...figures are appalling, and yet they seem, somehow, to have lost their ability to move us. That may be changing, slowly, as more and more women come forward to challenge what has become the biggest open secret in the American workplace. Big chain stores Publix and the Home Depot have shelled out a combined $180 million to settle female employee wage discrimination claims; Wal-Mart is currently facing a discrimination suit...
...Britain, the fuel tax-driven rise in electricity costs helped encourage Sainsbury's in March to refrigerate part of a food-storage depot in East Kilbride, Scotland, with electricity generated by a towering, 213-ft.-tall wind turbine. Sainsbury's also powers the refrigerators on some of its delivery trucks through solar panels on the vehicles' roofs. Denmark's government used to subsidize the installation of wind turbines but abolished the program in 1989, when wind power was regarded as fully competitive with electricity produced from heavily taxed fossil fuels...
...likes creating expensive furniture and perfume bottles just fine, but what really gets his juices going is the everyday: manhole covers, a cremation urn, disposable cigarette lighters, garbage bins, salt and pepper shakers, plastic pens. "I want American Standard to come to me to do the toilets for Home Depot," he says...
...recover. Officials reckon that 400 of the bourse's 450 active brokers are near bankruptcy. And most of them are no longer showing up at the office. The Calcutta Stock Exchange, India's third- largest and one of the most venerable in Asia, looks like some backwater bus depot, rather than the bustling hub it used to be. Hallways are darkened and quiet. Many of the brokers appear to be either asleep on a bench or playing solitaire on the exchange's computer terminals. Desolate bourse employees sit idle, spitting red betel-nut juice on the walls. "Everyone is just...
...parking lot,” he told the crowd of 400, “and if you look further, you’ll see a trailer truck depot. But that is not the future. This building is symbolic because it faces Boston. It’s the first building on this campus to do that and we did it on purpose. We wanted to signal the future of this school and the future of this University...