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When General Motors' Saturn plant was opened amid the cornfields of Spring Hill, Tenn., in 1990, it was billed as a kind of corporate nirvana where a folksy labor force and enlightened managers would happily work to produce some of the best darn American cars on the road. The plant represented a unified front against growing Japanese imports and offered the broader prospect of peace between GM and the United Auto Workers...
...paradise. The Flint strike shut off critical parts to the company, forcing the closure of 26 assembly plants and 100 component factories across North America and idling 186,000 workers. The strike is weighing on the economy too, contributing to a 0.6% drop in industrial output in June. The Saturn factory is the only GM plant in the U.S. still turning out cars. Leaders at Saturn's Local 1853, angry over a management decision to cut negotiated bonuses from $1,400 to $390, among other issues, planned a vote for Sunday on whether to strike the New Age plant...
...Prado, in Spain, is one of the most horrific images ever painted by Goya: the god Saturn devouring one of his children. Mindful that an offspring could get in his way, Saturn made meals of all that he sired. In St. Charles, Mo., last week a modern parallel to that myth may have emerged. If charges are true, Brian Stewart, 31, possesses a similarly cold-blooded compulsion. He is accused of first-degree assault for injecting HIV-positive blood into his infant son, allegedly to avoid paying child support. If the boy is finally eaten away by disease, authorities...
Prosecutors chose the assault charge because it carries a penalty of up to life in prison; attempted murder is limited to 15 years. In the Roman myth, one of Saturn's children escapes to depose him; in Missouri, Stewart could be put away for life by the son he may have tried to destroy...
LONDON: Scientists with the European Space Agency say the picture is getting clearer: Titan, Saturn's moon, is just like Earth -- only colder. Data from the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), which is orbiting around Earth but looking at Saturn, indicates that not only is water rather plentiful on Titan, it may have been brought there by comets -- long theorized to be the way water came to Earth, allowing life to begin...