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...whom were concentrated where we had just been—Allison and I again lowered our guard, flipping through the photos we had just captured on a digital camera in the waning moments of 2002. It was this, we would learn later, that had probably sealed our fate for the evening. Unbeknownst to us, we had been spotted and marked by a quartet of thugs standing probably just a few feet away, though we were oblivious to their presence. The moment of obliviousness faded in an instant when I realized just how careless we had been. I stashed the camera...
...satisfaction that blinds us to this, and that prevents us from being more constructive. Copies of the photograph of us on the football field hung, curling, from bulletin boards for years; I suspect that copies of the photograph of Winthrop House arrayed on the footbridge will share a similar fate...
Lasers may be the weapon of choice for sci-fi movie heroes when the fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance. But back here on Planet Earth, lasers are at the center of a movie battle of another kind: the one among Japan's giant electronics manufacturers over the next generation of DVD technology. The winners will get to set the course of the home-video entertainment industry for perhaps the next decade or longer--and reap billions in licensing royalties in the process...
There's more at stake than the fate of one railroad company or getting a carload of molasses to the supermarket on time. The nation's four largest railroads, UP, Burlington Northern Santa Fe, CSX and Norfolk Southern, are a linchpin of the U.S. economy; when they don't run smoothly, it's tough for the economy to grow. And lately, for companies whose bottom line depends on moving goods on schedule, the situation has become dire. UPS, the huge parcel service, was recently forced to shift some shipments to trucks. Dow Chemical, which supplies, among other things, chlorine...
...China and to us. It is obscene for us to ignore the effects [of outsourcing] on those who are hurt by it. Surely we are rich enough as a nation not to leave the ones with obsolete skills, those who are hurt by technological change and globalization, to their fate...