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...hydraulic platform to get a firsthand look. Likewise, the company's 68,000 workers are encouraged to make suggestions for improving quality in regular factory-floor meetings. Late last year, Yu Seung Byul, a quality inspector in Hyundai's Asan factory in Korea, invented an improved method for detecting missing bolts and brackets in hard-to-see nooks inside the car frame. He and his managers had spent weeks debating how to solve the problem. Then, says Yu, "I woke up one morning, looked in the bathroom mirror and realized, 'That's it!'" He simply installed mirrors above the assembly...
With all the hype about the countless fad diets out there, it was nice to read praise for the healthier method of staying in physical shape--getting off one's duff and exercising. It was courageous of TIME to point out Americans' laziness and make the connection between obesity and our passion for convenience. Being healthy takes more than putting down the feedbag. It means getting off the couch and engaging in forward motion. What a novel concept...
...make people sick, or even set off a pandemic. The problem is that the virus reference seed?the weakened bit of live H5N1 used to build up immunity in the human body?was mixed with cancer cells to help it replicate and then grown in a monkey kidney. That method is highly unorthodox. "People could get cancer from the vaccine," says Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO's global influenza program. Even more ominous, the developers say they've followed international procedures to ensure that the virus hasn't mutated in the making of the vaccine, but they haven...
...increasing number of American winemakers are calling on Frenchman Philippe Armenier for tutoring in the theories of biodynamics, an early 20th century method of farming and maintaining vineyards. Some of the world's greatest winemakers (such as France's Nicolas Joly and Lalou Leroy) firmly believe that using biodynamic methods healed their soil and vines after years of chemical mistreatment. But the bottom line is that they think the methods provide tastier wines...
...Summers] is direct and open, and he uses the Socratic method to make students think,” Badaracco wrote in an e-mail...