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...understandable why the UAW isn't rushing to embrace a new agreement. According to Harley Shaiken, a labor expert at the University of California at Berkley and occasional consultant to the UAW, the union and its Canadian counterpart are grappling with demands for big cuts in their wages and benefits - on the order of 25% to 30% - by Chrysler and Fiat. The demanded rollbacks could reduce wages and benefits, presently pegged at $29 per hour, by $6 to $8 per hour. "There is no doubt these are very serious cuts and they're being made under very tight deadlines...
...Dougherty, Director of the Princeton University Press.FIRST IMPRESSIONSThe Press publishes about 200 manuscripts a year. Standards are high. Representatives of the press often scour academic conventions for the newest and freshest ideas. The nine acquisition editors follow scholars whose work might one day prove promising. Each is an expert in his or her field. “We’re lapsed academics,” says Elizabeth Knoll, an acquisition editor for Behavior Sciences, Education and Law. Just like getting into Harvard itself, getting one’s work into the Press is a struggle...
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...pressure on Vietnam to proceed as planned is enormous, says Carl A. Thayer, a Vietnam expert who teaches at the University of New South Wales' Australian Defense Force Academy. Vietnam needs to trade with China, the world's third-largest economy, to survive. Thayer acknowledges that no Chinese company operates independently of the government. "If you go up far enough you will find a military or a security connection," he says. "But Chinese occupation? I don't believe that...
...world has been brought down by a cyberattack. And it's worth keeping in mind that most countries have much fewer defenses from cyberattacks than the U.S. "It's virtually impossible to bring down the entire North American grid," says Major General (Rtd) Dale Meyerrose, a cybersecurity expert who recently retired as chief information officer for the Director of National Intelligence. The electricity-distribution system is highly decentralized, and there's no central control system; at worst, cyberattackers may be able to damage sections of the grid...