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...material out of the manufacturing process: people and parts meet at the optimal moment. Kaizen is also about spreading what you've learned throughout the system. And then repeating it. It's the reason, for instance, that when Toyota assumed full control of the New United Motor Manufacturing plant in Fremont, Calif., which it had co-owned with GM, it got way more productivity and quality out of it than GM could with essentially the same workforce and equipment. (See the most exciting cars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behind the Troubles at Toyota | 2/11/2010 | See Source »

Asian carp - a collection of related fish, including bighead carp and silver carp - are what's known as an invasive species, an animal or plant that moves into a new environment, often badly disrupting it. Invasive species are becoming more common because of international trade, which turns the planet into a giant pinball machine, transplanting wildlife from one corner of the world to another, and because of climate change, which prompts species to migrate to more hospitable environments, often at the expense of those that already live there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asian Carp in the Great Lakes? This Means War! | 2/9/2010 | See Source »

...Thomas Craven, the cop, is walking into his house with his 24-year-old daughter Emma (Bojana Novakovic) when she is gunned down. The official suspicion is that Craven was the target, but he soon learns that she had been engaged in antinuclear espionage at Northmoor, a nearby plant run by the usual oily CEO (Danny Huston). In streamlining the original show's cast of malefactors, which included British and U.S. corporations and intelligence agencies, trade unions and the IRA, the movie reduces the story from a panoramic conspiracy to another one-guy-against-the-system thriller, and Edge loses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Edge of Darkness: Is Mel Gibson Still a Star | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...paid poorly in the U.S. What they may not know is how hard these laborers toil for their earnings. That's why Gabriel Thompson, a journalist based in Brooklyn, N.Y., spent months undercover working alongside mostly Guatemalans and Mexicans in the lettuce fields of Yuma, Ariz., at a chicken plant in rural Alabama and as a delivery guy for a restaurant in New York City. His goal was not to survive on his income, which he quickly realized was nearly impossible even at the lowest standard of living, but to remain at each job for two full months, no matter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Skimmer | 2/8/2010 | See Source »

...Okay, how about cactus? 
I see the fake cactus they had in the movie when I was on the set. Now I see some cactuses out in Arizona. I see the little cactus plant in my house when I was in Arizona. Now I'm seeing a big feedyard in Texas that's called Cactus. Now you see how I'm getting off the subject...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Temple Grandin on Temple Grandin | 2/4/2010 | See Source »

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