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...volcanic eruption here and there, and nature probably accounts for as much as 99%. Most of the temperature increases in the past century occurred when America was still mostly a rural economy. With the rise of our industrial might, temperatures haven't risen at all! TOM PETERSON Salt Lake City...
Michael D. Lemonick replies: Mr. Peterson is quite right in saying that nature is responsible for most of the greenhouse gases on Earth. But even the small percentage that is man-made, which is growing every year, has been enough to start nudging temperatures upward...
...Peterson, 40, is one of 1,700 full-time Dell workers who lost their jobs since February, in an economy that has been shedding 100,000 workers a month since the beginning of the year. Last week Winstar Communications, once a wireless wonder, hung up on 2,000 employees--44% of its staff. TiVo, Sycamore Networks and Extreme Networks added more bodies to the tech sector's growing pile. AOL Time Warner, parent of TIME, has announced 2,400 job cuts in response to the slowing economy and pressure from Wall Street. By week's end unemployment...
...every employee got the bad news as impersonally as Peterson. When senior recruiter Kathleen Sullivan, 47, was let go, her boss led her from her cubicle into a "team room" where they could have some privacy. He apologized profusely and said he hoped they would stay in touch. "Then a tear started rolling down his cheek," she says. "I'm getting laid off, and I'm asking him if he needed a Kleenex...
Some of the workers let go accuse Dell of targeting older, more highly paid workers. "The people left are not the ones who built the company," says Peterson. "We did all the sweat, and now they're getting our stock options." Dell counters that older workers who say they were singled out are just expressing sour grapes or don't understand where they fit in the process...