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...specialists around the world, and you need a complex management structure to integrate them." Bowne CEO Robert Johnson acknowledges the challenge. "We underestimated the difficulty of getting the disparate companies we acquired to work together in a cooperative fashion," he says. "It took us three years of pain and significant losses." But, he says, that phase is ending. The BGS unit, which now includes Mendez, posted a $2 million profit in the third quarter of this year. And the division expects to deliver profits of $10 million...
...convoy passed abandoned bunkers, some manned by the corpses of Taliban troops. A few hundred yards ahead, Alliance infantrymen exchanged small-arms fire with Taliban stragglers. An Alliance foot soldier, hit in the back, lay doubled over in pain. Others rained blows on a captured jihadist as he was duckwalked toward a jeep. Occasionally a small black puff and a crack would mark the explosion of a rocket-propelled grenade. But the fiercest fighting, a remarkably brief exchange of recoilless rifle and mortar, had tapered off shortly before; and by 4:30 the brigade rolled over what for two years...
SOME NERVE Acupuncture may scare away migraines and relieve back pain, but can it fight heart disease? Maybe. A preliminary study of congestive-heart-failure patients suggests that the ancient Chinese medicine may calm the sympathetic nervous system, the network of nerves that regulates activities we're barely aware of, like pumping blood. A less reactive sympathetic system results in smoother blood flow to the heart and easier pumping...
...magic paper would morph into all of these and more: the humdrum 5-7, the pain-in-my-rear, “I actually have to go into Widener?” research, and of course, for you seniors out there, THE BIG ONE. Whether the assignment called for footnotes or diagrams, annotated bibs or a boatload of primary sources, the magic morphing paper would be my first line of defense against end of term Scrooges...er...I mean...
...people in Afghanistan. That is not to say women will become "westernized," or abandon important religious or cultural principles. The restoration of women's rights includes the right of free choice. The freedom to wear a burqa if one desires-not to be forced to under pain of death. The freedom to become a doctor, or a homemaker. The freedom to worship in the manner of one's choosing...