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...that we are a good society, that the bad ideas come from abroad," he told Time before his dismissal. "Now we are talking about local thoughts that inflame hatred and fanaticism. We are saying, 'Let's look inside ourselves.'" The government, it seems, is saying, "Let's not." - By Jeff Israely and Scott Macleod...
...value far exceeds the overhead costs," says Jeff Chambers, human-resources chief at SAS, the world's largest privately held software company. SAS calculates that the free primary-health-care facility at its Cary, N.C., headquarters enables workers to return to their desks in 30 minutes instead of the two hours they would need if they went off-site to a doctor. The company, which has two on-site child-care centers, a 77,000-sq.-ft. gym, a farmers' market and a putting green, last month announced a new benefit: retiree health care. "We're going counterculture," says Chambers...
...sizeable chunk of public works services, often by bidding through a front company. Once contracts are obtained, environmental activists say, Mob bosses defy laws meant to protect the ecosystem and maintain public-health standards. The mayor of Naples said: "If need be, I'll sweep the city myself." - By Jeff Israely/Naples E.U. HERE WE COME LITHUANIA AND SLOVAKIA Lithuania became the first former Soviet republic to vote to join the E.U., with more than 90% supporting the move. Officials had feared that there would be poor turnout for the referendum, but after 64% of the population cast their ballots...
Some Big Three assembly lines feature similar technologies and practices, and upgrades continue. But execution is key. "It takes tremendous discipline to keep everything organized as you switch between models and to maintain the right quantities of supplies at the line," says Jeff Liker, an engineering professor at the University of Michigan. "In that regard, GM, Ford and Chrysler aren't as advanced...
...this all sounds shrewdly (if not cynically) calculating, relax?Murakami has no qualms about being calculating. Few artists this side of Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons (both of whom Murakami counts as major influences) have spent as much time strategizing their careers, calibrating their output according to the laws of supply-and-demand?all the while keeping an eye on how the mandarins of culture perceive their mercantilist ways. (Is he a sellout? Is it art? Are such distinctions even relevant anymore? These are questions that fuel Murakami's career.) Murakami purposely engineers a neo-Pop Art universality...