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...Wolfgang Streeck, an industrial relations expert at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, says U.S. executives shouldn't be frightened by works councils. "American companies are, contrary to popular belief, fatter than German firms and have more hierarchical levels," he says. "In the U.S., the enforcement of workplace regulations is handled by personnel departments, and when that doesn't work, you end up in court. Germany's lower instance of grievances translates into cost savings...
...world of the near future, all manner of content--magazines, movies, music, books, shopping--will be pouring into your home through your cable television line. The cable is now known as broadband because, even though it looks the same, technology has made it fatter and faster. When broadband access fuses the new and old economies with a bang, consumers will have a simple concern: If the broadband world is ruled by one company, will we have to pay more? Will we have a choice of what we watch? And if we don't stop them now, will we be able...
Have Jacobson's junk-food jihads worked? "Michael's ideas about diet and health were seen as way out there 20 years ago," says former FDA commissioner David Kessler. "Now they are mainstream." Translation: we may be fatter than ever, but at least we are feeling guiltier about it. Jacobson, 57, spits out new initiatives faster than you can say olestra (slapped with a gastrointestinal warning, thanks to C.S.P.I.). He dreams of fast-food outlets listing calories. "I can just see it," he sighs. "Big Mac: 560 calories, $2.19." He's urging a federally funded campaign to promote five daily...
...Gore camp is waiting for an edge. If the hand-recount margins come out a few hundred fatter for Gore, and give him the advantage, as they are almost guaranteed to, the veep's team can claim the election by stamping those numbers on the public brain and insisting upon their accuracy. That would force the Bush to either concede, sue for invalidation or call for their own by-hand recount in some Republican counties - making liars out of all the Bush campers who spent the weekend telling everyone how unreliable and vulnerable hand counts are. A quandary indeed...
...seem to like, who gives some people a goofy sense of hope, despite the almost universal feeling that this man will need the hardest-working aides in Washington. And the Democrats have put up a man (really, he put himself up) who has gone left and made himself a fatter target for the GOP crosshairs than Bill Clinton ever was. A guy who, despite significant brainpower and numerous accomplishments, strikes a lot of people as Clinton's Peter Lorre...