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...reason GM Mexico has remained profitable while mounting losses have pushed the parent company's U.S., Canadian and European operations to the brink of disaster boils down to the lower cost of doing business in Mexico. GM and other automakers, including Ford and Chrysler, have managed to keep the cost of production south of the California and Texas borders at Third World levels, owing largely to Mexico's weak unions...
...promised to keep 16% of combined U.S.-Canada output north of Detroit, but unless its new models can win market share from Ford and Toyota, it will continue its painful slide into oblivion. Also, as GM continues to shrink at home, it can trim a proportionate amount of production in Oshawa without breaking its promise to the Canadian government. Early on July 8, GM reported a 34% decline in June sales, to 176,571 cars and light trucks, in its domestic market. Year-to-date sales have collapsed 41%, to 954,356 vehicles...
...corporate-governance issues. "We need to launch substantive financial reform rather than weighing the faults of one firm versus another." Minow's point is this: spend too much time on Goldman and you miss the fact of how broadly the financial system and the regulations that are supposed to keep profiteers in check failed us. And she's right...
When the placenta did come out, Cassandra, dazed from 21 hours of labor, somehow made sure the nurses delivered it to us in a flat plastic container, which I put into an ice-filled Monsters vs Aliens cooler I brought. When I asked if I could keep the placenta overnight in the refrigerator out in the hall, the nurses looked at me like I was crazy. When you gross out people who work at a hospital, you have accomplished something...
...pretty glass jar, a card, a CD of lullabies and a satin pouch. In which was part of my son's umbilical cord, fashioned into a heart. When I asked Sara what the hell I was supposed to do with that, she said people often use it to keep a baby's first tooth and lock of hair. That's when I realized that placenta-eating is really just the beginning of how gross we humans are. And I went to change my first diaper...