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Even smaller firms--and their employees--are feeling pressure from abroad on prices and wages. Buck Knives, an American icon based in El Cajon, Calif., began outsourcing 10% of its production to Asia four years ago. It was not an easy decision. Many buyers of the firm's distinctive dark-handled knives, used for skinning deer and cleaning fish, were unhappy to learn that some Buck knives are forged overseas. But, explains chairman Chuck Buck, "we were getting pressure from dealers to lower our prices. Our filleting knives were selling for $26. Foreign knives were going for $14." So Buck...
...Garden, the magazine threw a party to honor our 2003 European Heroes (TIME Europe, April 28), 36 amazing people - some famous, most not - who provoke, inspire and generally make the world a better place. Not all of our heroes could make the event; British football star and freelance style icon David Beckham had to meet with Nelson Mandela in South Africa instead. But it was quite a night. Liam Gallagher of Oasis came by to pick up an award on behalf of the Who's Roger Daltrey, who has helped build eight hospital wards for the U.K.'s Teenage Cancer...
...maneuver. As one government minister says: "There's a very good reason not to have a referendum. We'd lose." Hero or Criminal? BRITAIN The Ministry of Defense said Lieut. Colonel Tim Collins, who became a national icon after an eve-of-battle speech in Iraq in which he urged his troops to be magnanimous in victory, is under investigation following accusations that he assaulted and threatened Iraqi prisoners and civilians. Separately, the MoD confirmed that an inquiry is ongoing into assertions that Collins' unit suffered from a culture of extreme bullying. What Did We Do? NORWAY Widespread bafflement greeted...
...conditions as her male peers. Despite the fact that women's courses are generally shorter and less troublesome than men's, Sorenstam is playing with the big boys - and beating many of them. And she's refreshingly free of political posturing. She's not aiming to be a feminist icon. She's trying to play golf as best she can against the best competition in the world...
...DeBusschere was traded to the New York Knicks, with whom he won the NBA championships in 1970 and 1973. As the Knicks' executive vice president, DeBusschere drafted the legendary Patrick Ewing in 1985. NBA Commissioner David Stern said, "Our game has lost an icon...