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...some weeks, Ian Jobson makes 20 types of Kit Kat at the big plant he oversees in the northern English city of York, the largest Kit Kat manufacturing operation in the world. Nestle installed $11 million worth of robots on the production line last year, and a new $1.6 million automated packaging machine is due to be installed this year. The number of people needed to staff the round-the-clock operation has been cut to 28 from 60. Jobson patrols the factory floor in his white coat and hairnet, soliciting ways to improve production. Nestle sent a manufacturing SWAT...
...sight. The best course of action that the U.S. can take right now is to follow Spain’s example and get out of Iraq. Like Spain, in retrospect, we’ll be glad that we did. Justine R. Lescroart ’09 is an English and American literature and language concentrator in Quincy House, and is currently studying abroad in Granada, Spain. Her column appears on alternate Wednesdays...
...This increased anti-immigrant sentiment is largely a product of a feeling that Hispanic immigrants are less likely to assimilate to “American culture.” But at the heart of the entire debate are competing concepts of national identity. For some it means Christian values, English language, and little identification with any specific ethnicity. For others it only means shared values of freedom and justice. Yet, this again, misses the crux of the issue. The truth is that there never has been a “typical” American. We are a nation of many...
...Great Gatsby,” “Pride and Prejudice,” “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and “The Catcher in the Rye.” John just loved that AP English reading. Every single one of those books changed his life, as he wrote in his college essay. Some of them changed it multiple times. In his spare time, he reads modern classics with long, paradoxical titles like “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.” Also the Bible, although not quite as often...
...virulent H5N1 strain of avian influenza has been confirmed as the source of a bird flu outbreak on an English farm...