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...there will still be fewer chickens to fry. At the Hsinchu Science and Industrial Park, home to many of Taiwan's flagship technology companies, more than three out of four workers are currently taking unpaid leave at least one day a week. Ryan Wu, chief operating officer of job-search website 1111 Job Bank, says that conditions at Hsinchu have never been so dire in the park's 29-year history. Wu says that two years ago, the companies that job hunters most often sought out using his service were microchip makers and electronics manufacturers; last year, the most-searched...
...when they have dreams about bad things happening to their friends. Similarly, we invest more meaning in dreams in which our enemies are punished and less meaning in dreams in which our enemies emerge victorious. In short, our interpretation of dreams may say a lot less about some quixotic search for hidden truth than it does about another enduring human quality: optimistic thinking...
...that of inborn gestures. Shrugging the shoulders, for example, is a universal - and inherent - gesture of confusion or surrender, probably because it lowers the head relative to the upper body, conveying submission. Yes or no head nods may go all the way back to infancy, as babies tend to search for the breast by moving their heads up and down and detach by moving side to side - effectively saying "yes, please" and "no more." Not every culture uses head nods this way, but they are thought to be the exception rather than the rule...
...only one in a battery of mistakes committed during a bungled investigation. Investigators failed to realize security cameras installed at Levy's apartment building might have offered valuable clues until after the tapes had been erased. While examining Levy's laptop for clues, an unseasoned sergeant mangled her Internet search history, forcing a month-long delay before police were able to discover that she may have planned to visit the park on the day of her disappearance. The police were criticized for fanning the media fury and impeding the investigation by holding press conferences. Most significantly, they honed...
...Crimson was given no confirmation of whether the search in Mather was related to the sexual assault reported...