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...month. Now there are 2,040 local phone companies in the U.S., 928 long-distance companies and 858 cell-phone service providers as well as 130 purveyors of broadband Internet access. We're besieged by telemarketers pitching incompatible technologies and offering us rate plans that read like the repair manual for the space shuttle. It sometimes seems to take a triple major in economics, network engineering and contract law just to stay intelligently connected to the rest of the world...
...with every kind of business from messenger services to department stores including Macy's and K Mart but received not a single viable offer. The kinds of jobs he was most likely to get he couldn't take. Because of an old neck injury, he can't do heavy manual labor--a common problem among former inmates, who, because of their intimate history with violence and needles, tend to have far more medical problems than average Americans. He responded to an ad in the paper for a bathroom-attendant firm in Manhattan. Impressed by Sanders' demeanor, the interviewer said...
Some companies are using B2B techniques to squeeze more efficiency from the supply chain. Consider mechanics who work on GE aircraft engines, who typically spend hours studying a paper repair manual, cross-referencing it with update notices, thumbing through a parts catalog and phoning to leave a message for someone at GE who might call back the next day. Software from Enigma of Burlington, Mass., offers a fast alternative: the mechanic has only to find the part he needs, then click on it, and it's on the way. It's a greasy business, not particularly sexy...
...Justice Department has tried to justify the intrusion as necessary to prevent terrorists from using their counsel, in the tradition of mob consiglieres and drug-kingpin lawyers, to convey information to co-conspirators on the outside. At last week's Senate hearing, Chertoff quoted from an al-Qaeda terrorism manual obtained overseas that urged members to take advantage of prison visits to communicate useful information...
...aesthetic sense,”he muses. Expanding on this, Douthart tells how, in a creative writing class at Harvard, he wrote a novella about a student who was “allergic to technology—he ended up having to type his essays on a manual typewriter, and fell into this collection of people soured with modernity.” Douthat admits that, like his protagonist, he possesses “a vague dissatisfaction with modern life...I have always romanticized the past and that shows up in my politics”. Indeed, his room is adorned with...