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...engine valves, increasing fuel efficiency. Last year Brian Whitfield, a supply-chain analyst at the factory, had plenty of work scheduling orders for raw materials, components and packaging. But with the collapse of GM and Chrysler, business ground to a halt, and when Whitfield arrived at his cubicle on Jan. 20, he found an e-mail from management announcing layoffs. He looked around and saw people leaving, carrying boxes. Then his boss called him into the conference room. "Basically it was, 'Sorry, we're going to have to let you go due to sales,'" says Whitfield, 40. He returned...
...when news was confirmed that the U.S. had scrapped plans to place part of a missile-defense shield in a military zone near the town, Jan Neoral, the mayor of Trokavec and a vocal anti-missile-shield campaigner, announced with uncharacteristic understatement that President Barack Obama's decision was "a satisfaction." (Read "Obama Shelves U.S. Missile Shield: The Winners and Losers...
...Jan Vidim, head of the lower house defense committee and a lawmaker for Topolanek's Civic Democrats, said the removal of the defense system was a blow to Czech interests. "The first feeling is a great disappointment and disgust over Mr. Obama's cowardice," Vidim said, according to the website of the daily Lidove Noviny. "He performs endless concessions, for example towards Russia. I consider it a betrayal of allies." (Read a Joe Klein blog post on the scrapping of antimissile defenses...
...what fascism means. I am proud that we, unlike many other societies, remind ourselves of not only our good deeds but also of our bad ones. By repealing our anti-Nazi laws we would trivialize the Nazi symbols. Ergo we would trivialize the Third Reich and all its horrors. Jan Malik, AACHEN, GERMANY...
WASHINGTON Corcoran Gallery Feeling nostalgic for summer? Dive into "Sargent and the Sea"?more than 80 seascape paintings, watercolors and drawings from 19th century painter John Singer Sargent (Sept. 12--Jan...