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...temporary or part-time, granting companies a generous measure of flexibility. Nationwide labor contracts have long been sacred, stubbornly ignoring local economic conditions. But in practice, more and more wage deals are being struck on the shop floor, where labor and management pay attention to the company's balance sheet. And corporate profits are soaring...
...seething center of the angry Crescent City was the Superdome, refuge of utterly last resort for 25,000 people who had waited out the worst of the storm while the sheet-metal roof peeled like fruit, letting the rains pour in. Soon there was no light, no air, no working toilets. Reports came that four of the weakest died that first night. An elderly man, playing cards and seemingly fine, threw himself over a railing inside the stadium and committed suicide, witnesses told TV reporters. Members of the city's EMS team made their way there only to find anarchy...
What does the Japanese art of paper folding have to do with higher math? Plenty. Demaine's origami work provides insights as readily into the problems of sheet-metal engineering as it does into those of robotics and molecular biology. He made his mark while still a teen by solving two major conundrums: the "fold and cut" and "carpenter's rule" problems. The former asks what types of shapes you can make by folding a sheet of paper and cutting it just once. The answer, Demaine helped prove, is any shape you like. The latter, a long-standing and deceptively...
...product for our customers. It was a hole in our product line. Going the other way, we have the opportunity to offer [Providian's] customers basic checking accounts, home-equity loans, mortgage loans and savings products. Another very important part is that it will help us diversify our balance sheet to loans other than prime residential home loans...
...even hardly bear going through" the point where the Challenger exploded, her other brother Jon said. "After that point, you can relax." Clark's son Iain said he wished someone else could have gone instead of his mom because he was missing her. She had taken with her a sheet containing all the pictures and fingerprints of his second-grade classmates. She emailed her family about how beautiful Mount Fuji looked from space, and the Sahara Desert, and the stars, up close. The fears that weighed on her family sat lightly on her. "To me, there...