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...some weeks, Ian Jobson makes 20 types of Kit Kat at the big plant he oversees in the northern English city of York, the largest Kit Kat manufacturing operation in the world. Nestle installed $11 million worth of robots on the production line last year, and a new $1.6 million automated packaging machine is due to be installed this year. The number of people needed to staff the round-the-clock operation has been cut to 28 from 60. Jobson patrols the factory floor in his white coat and hairnet, soliciting ways to improve production. Nestle sent a manufacturing SWAT...
...understanding of the dark sides of the North Korean regime and to his eventual defection to the United States. “His personal anecdotes really gave a face to what we read in the papers about the North Korean regime,” said Ian M. Miller, a student at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences focusing on East Asian regional studies. Near tears by the end of his speech, Kim received a standing ovation from the still-packed auditorium...
...thought he was a big nerd,” former teammate Ian Church says. “He was really quiet when he showed up, just soaking it in. We took a liking to him right away...
...order itself became the story instead. Now British news media are focusing on the details they are permitted to reveal, such as the identities of the two men arrested. Their names were revealed in a number of outlets on Oct. 29. Ian Strachan, aged 30, was described by the mass market daily, The Mirror, as "a Scots-born businessman" and by its larger rival, The Sun, as a "socialite smoothie." The other was identified as Sean McGuigan, aged 40, said to be Irish and, according to his neighbor quoted in the Evening Standard, "rough...
...stump with a naked scalp. Why? For the same reason, perhaps, that bald men are icons of evil in the movies, from Lex Luthor to Dr. Evil to Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life. Sometime in our political history, baldness was downgraded from Churchillian to ... Dr. Phil-ian...