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...book Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich went undercover to do a series of low-wage jobs on the theory that the best way to write about life at $6 an hour is to live it. If only Ehrenreich had pitched the idea to TLC. Instead, the network produced the more capitalist-friendly job-switch series Now Who's Boss? (Mondays, 10 p.m. E.T.), in which CEOs do drudge work at their own companies, critiqued by their employees. For Tisch, flipping omelets and checking in customers was not just educational but good advertising as well. "We're not as large...
...There is no such thing as a smart, safe or dumb mine. Would you send your children out to play in a soccer field full of American smart mines?" JERRY WHITE, director of Landmine Survivors Network, on the Bush Administration's plans to phase out traditional land mines by 2010 but leave the door open for the use of "smart" mines, which can be programmed to SELF-DESTRUCT...
Sources: TIME; AP; CNN (2); New York Times (2); Landmine Survivors Network...
Despite a staid reputation, the top railroads have dramatically upgraded their technology. BNSF has been quietly investing nearly $275 million annually in new IT to stay competitive. Chief information officer Jeff Campbell says BNSF's network center astonishes visitors with its ballroom size and sophisticated monitors. "While freight cars and locomotives haven't changed in two decades," he says, "most people have not seen an ops center like ours, not even at NASA in Houston." Automated readers, located every 30 miles along the 33,000-mile system, scan the bar codes of passing cars and locomotives--basically the rail version...
...want proof that America's railroads are back on track, take a look inside the Network Operations Center (NOC) of the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway Co. (BNSF). Dispatchers at the railway's headquarters in Fort Worth, Texas, sit hunched over computers 24/7, directing trains for the nation's second largest railroad and tracking shipments of everything from coal to Wal-Mart clothing. Nine megascreens monitor the flow of goods on 200,000 railcars across 33,000 miles of track--Chinese merchandise rolling east from California, Midwest grain heading west and then to Asia, FedEx packages crisscrossing the nation...