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...solid concrete, not steel girders of the kind at the Trade Center that were easily sliced by the intruding planes. "There are many ways," says Childs, "that this building is responding to the exact event that caused the tragedy." For its main structural support, the Freedom Tower will also employ an increasingly popular triangular-grid trusswork. From a defensive standpoint, structural strength, even more so than fire safety, is the most important consideration for tall buildings. "A square is not a geometrically stable shape," says Childs. "A triangle is stable because it has a diagonal." The Trade Center towers fell...
...Afghanistan similar to those widely publicized in Iraq. Three Afghan prisoners have died while in custody, and several others were allegedly subjected to torture and sexual abuse. In Washington a U.S. State Department spokesman swiftly disavowed any official link to Idema's gang, saying, "The U.S. government does not employ or sponsor these men." For Idema, who officials say may face kidnapping charges in Afghanistan, the bounty-hunting days appear to be over...
...increasingly important role. No matter the industry, companies are ultimately in the business of predicting the future: what a consumer will buy, where a product can be made most cheaply, how new laws might affect profit margins. There is such an undisputed advantage to knowing the future that corporations employ analysts and strategists, create committees and reports, conduct polls and pilots--all to figure out what will, and should, happen next. As HP's Huberman puts it, "A company that can predict the future is a company that is going to win." And if internal markets can refine those predictions...
...contrast, it has remained steady at an average of 3.2%, according to the Paris-based Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (O.E.C.D.). How do high taxes drag down the rest of the economy? Look at the "tax wedge" - the difference between what it costs to employ a worker (wages and social-security charges) and the worker's take-home pay. In Belgium and Germany, this gap peaked at more than 50% last year. In other words, a single person without children, like Moser, on average took home less than half of what her employers paid to employ her. France, Austria...
...Bavarian client who tells him only two things keep him from moving his factory to Poland: affinity for the town where his factory is based and the trade unions. "He says, 'If I just look at the economics, it's a no-brainer. What it costs me to employ a German for one hour, I get a Polish skilled worker for a day plus I pay 19% tax,'" says Barnes. "He is not going to close his factory, but his next investment is going to be in Poland." From Eastern Europe, calls for harmonization sound like sour grapes. "We look...