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...metal, adding a new 1-mm-thick layer of chrome or nickel to the head. Each time a cylinder goes through remanufacturing, a milling machine shaves a fraction of a millimeter off the cylinder's head to remove pitting. After a few shaves, however, a head can weaken. The extra layer applied by the flame spray rebuilds the cylinder head's tolerance so it can be milled two or three more times in the future...
Parents at the Martin Luther King, Jr. School, one of two Cambridge primary schools that instituted an eight-hour class day last year, hold overwhelmingly positive opinions of the extra instruction time, according to a school survey...
Most of the objectives dealt with the addition of curricula designed to promote “active-learning” and the introduction of electives. Among other things, the King has used the two extra hours to add “Literacy Collaborative,” a program that infuses reading and writing into the broader curriculum, as well as 60 to 90 minutes of “hands-on math” and 30 minutes of daily Mandarin instruction from junior kindergarten onward...
Winning union approval for even greater flexibility was easier in Leipzig. In part, that's because other German automakers, particularly Volkswagen, were threatening to move some of their production outside Germany altogether because of high costs. In the end, the union agreed to extend working hours without extra pay. That has been a boon to the whole industry--and the German economy. Reithofer acknowledges that the wage restraint "has been a fundamental contribution to making Germany competitive again...
That's because drugs of abuse co-opt the very brain functions that allowed our distant ancestors to survive in a hostile world. Our minds are programmed to pay extra attention to what neurologists call salience--that is, special relevance. Threats, for example, are highly salient, which is why we instinctively try to get away from them. But so are food and sex because they help the individual and the species survive. Drugs of abuse capitalize on this ready-made programming. When exposed to drugs, our memory systems, reward circuits, decision-making skills and conditioning kick in--salience in overdrive...