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...closing plants, slashing more than $20 billion in debt and eliminating 20,000-plus jobs to return the moribund company to profitability. Many observers--especially France's sometimes intractable unions--expected similar tough love in early February, when Ghosn unveiled his ambitious four-year plan for the European auto giant, which has had an increasingly close joint partnership with Nissan since 1999. But, quelle surprise, so far Ghosn's quality-enhancing, production-boosting, profit-focused project has avoided layoffs. "Renault is not in the same critical situation Nissan was, so the methods we're using to improve things are different...
...kids try to juggle school, homework, sports, music lessons and sleep, I sometimes think my life is easier than theirs. That's partly because I have some tools they lack, but it's also because I think I know an abyss when I see one. Facebook is one giant time vortex--a black hole of chatter--and for many kids it's hard to find an exit. Under its influence, 90 minutes of homework ends up taking four to five hours, says Dr. Alan Goodwin, principal of Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda, Md. Those sites are "a huge distraction...
...five large, interconnected lakes and 14 smaller ones offering a rich larder - mussels, golden perch and cod, as well as marsupials and water birds - for communities camped on their shores. As the lakes receded and were refilled, prevailing winds layered sand and clay on their eastern shores into giant crescent-shaped dunes, or lunettes. And by the time the lakes dried permanently about 16,000 years ago, leaving saltbush to claim their abandoned saline beds, the lunettes were like vaults, stacked with the artefacts and bones of people who had lived near them for millennia...
...chainsaw-cut planks line the side of a wharf built from old logs, off-cuts, rocks and mud. The plantation is run by Malaysia's Silvania company; environmentalists say it is a front for a logging concern. The muddy village echoes with the sound of saws chewing through giant tree trunks. Until a few months ago, 16-year-old Leslie Pua called one of these shanties home, sharing a room with her eight siblings. Then the elderly boss of an Asian logging company took a shine to her. Leslie now has a new house and her own room, where...
London-based oil giant BP, scrambling to clean up one of the largest oil spills in Alaska history and stay out of further trouble with state pollution regulators, now has federal authorities to satisfy as well...