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...warns of more wage pressure ahead: "If we don't reform our labor system very soon, we won't have a manufacturing sector to worry about." He is taking aim at work rules that prevent union steelworkers from performing as efficiently as foreign competitors or nonunion rivals at U.S. mini-mills...
...pace is constantly changing, but he does it flawlessly. Moreno deserves some credit too. In 2001 one of his vocal cords became paralyzed on a lengthy tour, and it sounds as if he has picked up some technique in his rehabilitation. He's still capable of low-range mini-arias that torture his tonsils, but he has also found some control in his upper range. He can now stretch his voice with confidence, and even when he's talking about Hesperian horses, the sound can be inspiring...
...itself. The Pentagon is hard at work pushing to develop the first new class of U.S. nukes since the end of the cold war. Two plans are on the table: retooling existing warheads into atomic sledgehammers capable of destroying bunkers beneath 300 meters of rock, and designing new mini-size nukes ideal for targeting stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons. Congress banned work on mini-nukes for the past decade out of fear that smaller nuclear weapons might be more likely to be used. But the Bush Administration, citing the jump in what it calls HDBTs - hard and deeply buried...
When TV provokes a philosophical argument about evil, the subject matter isn't usually more profound than Rob's treachery on Survivor. But CBS tapped deeper passions when it announced its flagship mini-series for the May sweeps: a biography of the young Adolf Hitler from adolescence through his rise to power. Jewish leaders charged that the mini-series might make Hitler sympathetic, by showing him out of the context of the Holocaust, or blame his evil on an unhappy youth. In the New York Times, Maureen Dowd suggested that the network was using the project to court young viewers...
...finished mini-series has swayed many critics. Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, says it "reminds us how fragile democracy is." That's not to say that Hitler solves every mystery--it's cagey, for instance, on whether most Germans shared or simply tolerated Hitler's anti-Semitism--or that no viewer might draw the wrong lessons from it. When people say it's risky to try to understand evil, they're right. But it is far more dangerous not to try to understand...