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...sins of management and the scythe of a bad economy conspire to bankrupt once great companies, who pays? The sort of person, in the words of Tennessee Senator Bob Corker, "who ran a profitable business, civic leader, always responsible," who "very unfortunately" is "going to take a lot of pain" for the mistakes of others. A guy like Steve Weinberg. "It breaks your heart," says the Senator. (See the 50 worst cars of all time...
...commercial? Experts scratched their heads. "We're all kind of struggling with it," says automotive consultant Laurie Harbour-Felax. To Corker, the deal was an exercise in pain management. "I get the sense that they decided to kick the can down the road, maybe delay the end for another four or five years," he says. "And then if it fails, at least a foreign company owns...
...teachers in charge of 25 children," says Martina Soennichsen, a spokeswoman for Verdi. "It's incredibly noisy. In some kindergartens, it's like being next to a runway when a plane takes off. Teachers sit on small chairs all day long and they end up with back pain and headaches." The unions have a long list of demands, ranging from regular free health checkups for kindergarten workers and better sound insulation in classrooms to ergonomic chairs and counseling. (Read "At the Blue Man Group's School, Kids Rule...
...believe that al-Qaeda operatives are not garden-variety prisoners who would respond to persuasion; they have proved to be hate-filled extremists who place no value on human life, including the lives of their own people. Baer suggests they would give false information under torture to "stop the pain" whereas persuasive techniques would encourage them to tell the truth. That doesn't make sense to me. I don't like torture either, but if it proves to obtain information that puts a stop to future bloodshed - as it has, according to experts - then I say please resume. John Stern...
...marriage on its way to becoming the relationship equivalent of our appendix (in that it's no longer needed but can cause a lot of pain)? "You're looking at the vanguard," sociologist Andrew Cherlin says of CUs like McCauley and Hathaway. A Johns Hopkins professor and author of The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today, he notes that unmarried parents in Europe stay together longer than married parents in the U.S. "Marriage is a more powerful symbol here," he says. "It's the ultimate merit badge of personal life...