Word: metallism
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...summer roommate asked, “Has anyone seen the spoon?” Note the singular, “spoon.” Luckily, our schedules were different enough so that no fights broke out over our beloved spoon, but when I wanted ice cream, which required a metal spoon to dig out frozen bits of cookie, and my roommate wanted to eat her soup, we finally admitted that it was time to buy some silverware...
Until our recent trip to Dickson Brothers, where we treated ourselves to re-usable plastic bowls, a spatula and silverware, we had just one metal spoon among our four mouths. We have housing in DeWolfe, considered quite posh by summer subletting standards in Cambridge. And although we have a big, glorious refrigerator capable of storing 5 gallons of milk to my HSA’s one quart, as well as a dishwasher, oven range and trash compactor, fending for my stomach—even with the mechanical niceties of a working kitchen to call my own—has been...
Conservatives hate to meddle in the markets. So it would be hard to find a more unlikely advocate for federal price controls than California Congressman Duncan Hunter, whose voting record nearly every year gets a 100% rating from the American Conservative Union. But when the owner of a small metal shop in El Cajon showed Hunter his December electric bill--$115,000 for the month, four times what the man had been paying before the state's electricity crisis began--Hunter changed his mind. "I came to the conclusion that this wasn't free enterprise," the San Diego County Republican...
...story homes is a stunning beachscape. The setting sun silhouettes scores of ships run aground, groaning as their rusting hulls shift on the sand. Look closer and you'll see thousands of workers moving like hermit crabs across the oil-slicked beach, dismantling the vessels sheet by metal sheet. They chant and smile while they carry the monstrous slabs of tonnage for as little as 13 an hour. "Singing makes us forget the pain," says a young laborer, his tanned body smeared with grease...
...much relief to the pressing manpower demands of German business. The Federal Association of German Industry says that in addition to the large number of vacant computer jobs, the country lacks 80,000 people in the food service sector, 50,000 nurses and 40,000 skilled workers in the metal and electrical industry. With its cool attitude toward foreigners and a reputation for high taxes, Germany has a hard time attracting workers even with good pay, says Christoph Kannengiesser, manager of the German Federation of Employers. "The workforce needs to be convinced that Germany is an attractive workplace," he says...