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...relatively low wages paid skilled workers. An experienced production worker at Gdynia earns about $775 a month, compared with $3,690 in Japan and $3,300 in the U.S. The yard's business got a boost last year when European governments, under an OECD-orchestrated plan, agreed to lift their subsidies from competing shipyards. But Szlanta emphasizes that Gdynia also benefits from a pool of several dozen leading engineers, who were trained at Gdansk Technical University's elite shipbuilding school and are considered among the best in the world...
...skeptic, all evidence is anecdotal. But some anecdotes are more than encouraging; they are inspiring. Consider Sue Cohen, 54, an accountant, breast-cancer survivor and five-year yoga student at the Unity Woods studio in Bethesda, Maryland. "After my cancer surgery," Cohen says, "I thought I might never lift my arm again. Then here I am one day, standing on my head, leaning most of my 125-lb. (57-kg) body weight on that arm I thought I'd never be able to use again. Chemotherapy, surgery and some medications can rob you of mental acuity, but yoga helps compensate...
...really that easy? Burberry has had triple-digit growth since it started its makeover, but the creative director who was applying the hipness lift left last month by what the company described as "mutual agreement" and was replaced by a designer from Gucci. The signature plaid has been knocked off more often than a milk bottle at a carnival booth...
...with a not-horribly-offensive flower on the front and escaped from card hell. Then I made a beeline for the nearest stationery store, where I gathered an armful of plain, heavy Crane's notecards and envelopes. As I stood in line with my selections, I felt a weight lift: Never again will I depend on America's greeting card manufacturers...
...Phoenix Country Day School, where she taught. Though she later wondered what sharing her life with a sightless person would be like, she quickly realized that Erik was well equipped to cope with his dark world. "He does things by instinct. When he walks, he doesn't lift his feet, he feels the floor," says Ellie. "The only thing that's been hard for Erik is getting used to Emma's new toys--she leaves them all over the place." When it comes to posing treacherous obstacles, the Himalayas have nothing on a toddler...