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That’s why whenever any Division I NCAA championship is televised, I watch, and if I can go, I go. This is the highest form of competition not because the athletes are necessarily the most talented and skilled in the world, but because they just flat-out compete. This view causes a shocking number of people to think I’m a screwball. Imagine the spite I get when I watch the College Softball World Series instead of the Red Sox. I feel this way not because of some kind of psychosis, but because...
...plan's technical name as well as a lyrical reference to the parting of the Red Sea, calls for 78 hollow sea gates--each up to 16 ft. thick, 65 ft. wide and 90 ft. long--to be hinged to foundations, or caissons, in the seabed and to lie flat there. The gates would usually be filled with water, but when tides rise to a height of 43 in. or more, compressed air would pump the water out. The free end of the gates would then float upward, breaking the surface after about 30 minutes and sealing off the inlets...
...return, thousands of laid-off workers were recalled at their old hourly rate. If they meet specific production targets, they get a bonus every two weeks. The system is working: ISG is now among the world's most efficient manufacturers of flat rolled steel for cars and appliances, producing it for about $348 a ton shipped--about 25% cheaper than French and Japanese steel. In the last six months of 2002, steelworkers at LTV collected average bonuses equal to seven weeks' pay. Now Ross is looking at union rules and wages in the tire and auto industries--both...
...APPROPRIATE INSURANCE If you move state-to-state, your belongings will be insured for 60 per lb. So if your 70-lb., $5,000 flat-screen TV gets smashed, you'll recoup all of $42. You'll be better off buying coverage through your home insurer. Industry experts say it's usually a better product. --With reporting by Jonah Freedman
...good one, considering the comments I’ve heard in the Leverett House dining hall. “Not another ugly tower,” more than one person has said. The tower is not ugly by any stretch, but it reads as a rather non-descript flat-walled...