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...left the assembly lines in the hands of unskilled replacement workers, who had few veterans to train under, and the labor dispute wasn't finally resolved until 1996. When the strike was settled, many of the old hands did not return to their jobs, and Firestone's Japanese parent, Bridgestone, shifted supervisors around and instituted a 12-hr. workday. It was around this time, according to the depositions given by former employees at the plant, that quality was sacrificed for quantity. Inspections, they charged, lasted as little as 10 seconds; solvent was rubbed on outdated and dried-out rubber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anatomy of a Recall | 9/3/2000 | See Source »

...most appearances, the kids of single mothers seem as happy and well-adjusted as their two-parent schoolmates. "I don't think there's any difference at all," says Ean Kessler, 12, whose mother Karen is a member of Single Mothers by Choice in Hamden, Conn. "It's the same with one person telling me what to do." Yet it's too soon to make any firm judgments. "We will probably need a generation of kids to grow up to find out the answers," says Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, co-director of the National Marriage Project at Rutgers University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mom on Her Own | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...accommodate her needs as a single mom. Then there was the stranger on the subway who struck up a conversation and when she found out Hansard was a single mom, railed that what she was doing was morally wrong. Sara told her off. "I wanted to be a parent, and in my case, I happened not to be married," she says. "I'm not apologizing to anyone for that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mom on Her Own | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...computer. What his software has become is the latest focal point of a controversy that has exploded, in which technology, business and the First Amendment collide. When Emmanuel Goldstein, who runs a hacker magazine called 2600, posted Johanssen's software on a website, eight media companies (including Time Warner, parent company of TIME) sued Goldstein, who also goes by the name Eric Corley. Last Thursday a New York judge ruled in the companies' favor, raising questions about how our legal system will regulate technology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future Of Copyright: Digital Divisiveness | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

This is not necessarily an insult. Sex (Sundays, 9 p.m. E.T. on HBO, which is owned by TIME's parent company, Time Warner) likens even its finest men to man's best friend. Sex columnist Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) meets her lover Aidan--a shaggy, happy-go-lucky golden retriever of a guy--when his dog cheerfully buries his snout in her crotch. Lawyer Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), cohabiting with scruffy bartender Steve, agrees to buy a pooch with him, and it becomes a metaphor for their unworkable relationship. Husband-hunting Charlotte (Kristin Davis) learns to control her new fiance with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sex And The City: Waiting for Prince Charming | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

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