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...center. The computers also help orient the station to avoid space debris and move into position for docking with the shuttle or arriving cargo ships. For now, the shuttle's thrusters and the station's own gyroscopes will keep things reasonably stable, but that is not a permanent fix...
...vice president of the Royal Bank of Canada with his own private dining room--hid an edgier side, the side that rides a Harley and reads palms, a skill he picked up from his European grandmother. In ING Direct, Kuhlmann saw a revolution, a chance to fix the things he knew people hated about banks. Companies in other industries had succeeded with stripped-down versions of competitors' products--Southwest flew airplanes without assigned seats; Ikea sold design-minded furniture without assembling it--so why not do that with banks...
...best, if prohibitively radical, proposal to fix this is the report of the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce, which draws from an all-star array of education experts from both parties. It would take the funding and much of the control of public schools away from local school boards, give financial and quality control to the states and force each school to become an entrepreneurial competitor for students. It would change the American public school system from one that emphasizes rote learning to a system that encourages and tests for creative and critical thinking. It would...
...concerned with that," Ziemer says. "I don't even know how much money is available. We were never told to try to limit the numbers." He added, "There's a lot of tension in what I'd call the emotional aspects. But why didn't Congress fix this in the first place? We've tried to do this very diligently. We all struggle with our empathy for the workers and what we're charged to do by law. This same story is multiplied all around the country...
...former Colorado Republican Congressman Bob Beauprez, who spoke on behalf of the Rocky Flats workers, says Congress did try to fix things. Beauprez grew up near Rocky Flats and knew families with three generations of Rocky Flats workers. He called the workers "patriots." He said, "We won that [cold] war. And knowing full well there was risk inherent, they did their jobs.... Democrats and Republicans in Congress - all representatives of the taxpayers - said, 'Take care of these people.' 'Don't submit these people to endless torture. These people...