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...Micro Compact Car (MCC), the DaimlerChrysler subsidiary that assembles the Smart Car, has taken that idea further than any other company. Its plant in Hambach, France, is really seven separate factories, each occupied by a different systems partner. The chassis is shuffled off to a subfactory run by the German firm of Krupp Hoesch Automotive, where the power module is installed. Bosch plunks down the front end, which includes the cooler, headlights and crash box. German plastics, chemical and industrial-ceramics company Dynamit Nobel snaps on plastic body panels and the whole vehicle is done in four hours--down from...
...Harp--pronounced "Haahp" by Southie residents--is two floors of big beer drinking, raucous sports watching and crazy dancing fun, with a few brawls to boot. With "only" 10 beers on tap, this is not a bar for the elite micro snob; enjoyment of St. Louis conglomerate alcohol is a prerequisite for entrance. Packed before and after games and all weekend long, Boston's biggest haven of alcoholic consumption fits up to 800 people and still has a line outside...
...volcanic eruption on the Mediterranean island of Santorini. The most ingenious effort is an ecological domino theory proposed in the 1950s by a scholar named Greta Hort: the Nile's many tributaries flood, infesting the great river with blood-red soil from the high plateaus and reddish micro-organisms usually confined to up-country lakes. These micro-organisms poison the fish, whose rotting bodies pollute the frogs' habitats, forcing them to hop onto dry land. Insects (gnats, flies) feeding on the dead fish proliferate and convey the anthrax that eventually infects livestock (pestilence) and humans (boils...
...simple fact is that non-profit organizations, even large national organizations, operate on a micro level. The American Red Cross of Mass. Bay (our local chapter) may have one or two positions come open in any one year. And the chapter will probably not know far in advance that those positions will be open; this pattern is repeated across the country. The National Office of the American Red Cross does not recruit employees for local chapters and thus would not send a representative to a college recruitment fair...
...used the tools that I learned from watching the consultants...to do it on a micro level," she says...