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...from abroad on prices and wages. Buck Knives, an American icon based in El Cajon, Calif., began outsourcing 10% of its production to Asia four years ago. It was not an easy decision. Many buyers of the firm's distinctive dark-handled knives, used for skinning deer and cleaning fish, were unhappy to learn that some Buck knives are forged overseas. But, explains chairman Chuck Buck, "we were getting pressure from dealers to lower our prices. Our filleting knives were selling for $26. Foreign knives were going for $14." So Buck outsourced some production, laid off a dozen...
Peggy Hunt learned to fly-fish on company time. The human-resources manager works at Orvis, a mail-order firm in Manchester, Vt., that offers employee classes on the outdoorsy lifestyle espoused in its catalogs. S.D. Deacon, a construction company based in Portland, Ore., gives new hires $100 to decorate their cubicles, "just to make it feel homey," says an administrator, "since we're here so much." In today's labor market, in which simply getting a paycheck can qualify as a morale booster, some firms are providing inexpensive stress reducers that have the added benefit of squeezing more work...
...costs by half. "If you don't have to spend half a billion, then more products can advance to the marketplace," says Arizona State University researcher Charles Arntzen. The opportunities, he points out, are not limited to human drugs. Arntzen foresees rich markets for plant-grown vaccines to protect fish and poultry against diseases now being treated--and in many cases overtreated--with conventional antibiotics...
...FISH TALE With its dazzling undersea adventure Finding Nemo, Pixar proves once again that digital cartoons are the wave of the future...
They're only toys: cuddly cloth cowboys, adorable insects, furry monsters. But when the pixilated storytellers at Pixar fashion them, these playthings come to life. Take Marlin, the single-dad clown fish, voiced by Albert Brooks, in the new Pixar astonishment Finding Nemo. Brooks says that when a reporter on a junket described this fish father as overprotective, "I stood up and said, 'Overprotective? If your wife and almost all your children were eaten by a shark, you wouldn't be overprotective?' Then I realized--I'm yelling about a fish...