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...could say Chrysler has the red, white and blues. Despite spending nine years under German ownership, Chrysler remains the most American-focused of Detroit's Big Three automakers. The company - which was sold in August by Germany's Daimler to the private equity firm Cerberus for $7.4 billion - is more dependent upon the U.S. market than either General Motors or Ford. Only 8% of Chrysler cars are sold outside North America. While, in decades past, that may have been a sensible strategy, this concentration is increasingly a liability as U.S. market growth has slowed, and competition from imports is revving...
...couples who can't bear to spend even a night apart, the advantages of commuter marriages are perhaps unfathomable. But to people like Wendy Wu, 34, they're crystal clear. Wu, a litigator for New York City-based firm Proskauer Rose, was married in April 2006. As an associate, she works ungodly hours but feels little guilt about leaving her new husband waiting at home alone--because said husband is three time zones away, in Los Angeles, where he works for the police department. Wu has been working out of the L.A. office of her firm, and when...
...file that arrived with the e-mail was, of course, a computer virus, immediately christened the Storm Worm by the Finnish computer security firm F-Secure, which was among the first to spot it. Since then, the Storm Worm has proved remarkably hard to kill. Nine months later, it's still out there, infecting something like a million computers worldwide. It's not the most damaging virus in history, but it may be the most sophisticated. Whoever created it is to viruses what Michelangelo was to ceilings...
...sought by the union and predicted GM's employment level will remain constant over the four-year term of the contract. The lack of guarantees from GM on job security triggered the strike Monday, Gettelfinger said shortly after the walkout began. The job-security guarantees are expected to include firm commitments to build future GM products, including the electric-powered Chevrolet Volt, in the United States. Some observers have speculated, however, that the job-security walkout was merely a cover for the more far-reaching and sensitive health care financing agreement...
...front-page piece on the planned Allston expansion ("Allston Adopts CO2 Caps," news, Sept. 18) gave due praise to Harvard for taking a firm and measurable stand on sustainability. It fails, however, to extend that praise to one of the real "greening" forces on campus: the student body...