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...costs--which account for fully two-thirds of most companies' expenses. "One of the great successes of the U.S. economy has been putting flexibility into the wage structure and compensation plans," says Ira Kay, a compensation consultant at Watson Wyatt Worldwide, a human-resources consultancy. Variable pay "is a shock absorber." So much so, in fact, that today it could be helping to keep unemployment as much as a full percentage point lower than it would otherwise be--a savings worth 1.4 million jobs--according to Harvard University economist Richard Freeman. It's a stark contrast to the dark days...
...toxins, which is what creates the illness in the host: First you see non-specific flu-like symptoms. Then, in hours or in a few days, some patients will have a brief period of recovery. Others progress directly to the second stage of the disease, which generally leads to shock, massive swelling of lymph nodes and hemorrhagic meningitis (bleeding in the brain...
Others have been touched by American flags. By candlelight vigils in New York City and peace rallies on Widener steps. By Midwesterners rushing to the Red Cross to donate blood and Southeasterners sending trucks northward with donated goods. They have been touched by the response of a nation in shock, in grief, in fear, in mourning. I too have been touched by this reaction, but I have been touched by the response of the world as well. I have been touched by the sight of Turkish flags at half-mast. By candlelight vigils in Dhaka, Bangladesh and peace rallies...
This isn't just whining. If homeland security has shock troops, they work for state and city governments. "The best response is local," says Keating. "You have to have doctors and nurses and emergency services and police and National Guard who are trained to respond." At present, there are huge holes in that training. Keating freely admits that "doctors and nurses in my state know nothing about anthrax and smallpox...
...still possible to get an extreme response from photography? A: Everything seems permitted in new magazines. I didn't go out to shock people. To me fashion and fashion photography were sexy. There was a pearls-and-twinset culture in England at the time [Newton worked at British Vogue in the 1950s], so I left for Paris...