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...Machine That Changed the World," as a study at M.I.T. called it, isn't the telephone or even the automobile. It's the devastatingly efficient assembly-line method called the Toyota Production System (TPS), which has revolutionized the way factories are run worldwide. Few people have done more to perfect "the Toyota Way" than chairman Hiroshi Okuda, 71, and president Fujio Cho, 67, with a combined 93 years at Toyota between them. Toyota's first two CEOs not to hail from the company's founding Toyoda clan, Okuda and Cho have taught hundreds of companies the TPS secrets of eliminating...
...researchers' method was familiar to anyone who has been following the cloning parade from sheep to mice to other animals over the past several years. After harvesting 242 eggs from 16 female volunteers, Hwang and Moon removed the eggs' genetic material and replaced it with DNA extracted from adult cells donated by the same women. They then used tiny bursts of electricity to fuse together the donor material and egg. Nourished in dishes, 30 of the hybrid eggs developed into blastocysts--balls of hundreds of cells that represent one of the earliest stages of fetal development. When couples undergo...
...Trinke has a very public nervous breakdown at a news conference. Though Affleck should never attempt to cry on film (or say the line “I’m gonna be the best daddy in the world!”), Jersey Girl nevertheless benefits from his non-method approach to acting, which fits in with the film’s down-to-earth style and subject matter. Like all of Smith’s previous movies, Jersey Girl is almost as littered as New Jersey itself with curse words, sex jokes, and an long list of A-list...
...dictation, the writing of Navy letters, the preparation of standard reports, the duplication of typwritten material, the use of the Navy filing system and the keeping of all personnel records. Know the typewriter, the organization of the ship, current regulations and instructions regarding enlistments, discharges, transfers, and the method of preparing reports. Understand all Navy regulations regarding duties and instructions regarding transportation, travel, discharge, promotion, benefits available to enlisted men, and the procedure necessary to obtain such benefits...
...idea is that while it would be a one-shot advising event, a concentration advising night has the potential to reach a large segment of the first-year population...I think that it is one additional proactive and complementary method for aiding first-years in their search for the right concentration,” he wrote...