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...first time. Back then, Airbus was hailed as a uniquely European archetype for competing in heavy industries. After all, no single country in Europe has the resources to develop a world-beating aircraft manufacturer on its own. The core notion of cooperation is still valid, says James Foreman-Peck, a professor at Cardiff Business School who specializes in European industrial policy, "but these days, Airbus just confirms Anglo-Saxon prejudices that governments waste large amounts of taxpayers' money even when they have a good idea." Untangling Airbus' wiring will prove plenty tough, but untangling its management snarls...
...months, 15,000 people have joined a weight-loss website founded by four Harvard alums. The site, Traineo.com, lets users track what they eat and what they do to exercise. It also calculates the number of calories they burn and gauges their progress. Traineo CEO Aladair McLean-Foreman ’05 said the site’s users include “loads of college students.” McLean-Foreman, along with schoolmates Jennifer Y. Lee ’04, James J. Albertine ’04, Devin Lyons-Quirk ’05 created the site, which...
...country bring with them an infectious optimism. People's lives are getting better. The polite packer helping to direct traffic in our apartment told my husband he had helped move us into our flat three years ago. Back then he was a simple day laborer; now he's a foreman. Many stories in China have a similar upward trajectory. If for nothing else, I would miss China for the promise it holds...
...lives of people in China, I reflected, really are getting better. The polite packer helping direct traffic in our apartment confided to my husband that he had actually helped move us into our apartment three years ago. Back then, he was a simple day laborer. Now he was a foreman. Many stories in China have a similar upward trajectory. If nothing else, I would miss China for the promise it holds...
...moment of distraction, Carl Seymour, foreman at the Cabinet Door Shop in Hot Springs, Ark., nearly became a statistic. One morning in March, he was cutting a piece of wood paneling on a power saw when his thumb made contact with the blade. Seymour jerked his hand away, grabbed his thumb in pain and peeked to see how badly it was mangled. To his surprise, it was no worse than a bad paper cut. "I was so happy and excited, I started screaming and jumping up and down," Seymour recalls...