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...complex could Drosophila's world be that it actually needs shut-eye to recharge its brain? You'd be surprised. For a fly, its brief, two-month life can only be about mating and eating - or eating and mating, depending on whether mates or food are in shorter supply - but these activities involve complex social interactions that, frankly, can be exhausting...
...white- and blue-collar workers alike, shifting to shorter working hours and lower pay in exchange for tacit job guarantees is suddenly a no-brainer - not just in Britain, but also in Taiwan, Iceland and a swathe of other countries in Europe and Asia. Other schemes being tried include temporary work suspensions at factories, and even work-sharing programs. Two countries stand out as having the most developed and systematic approach: Japan and Germany, which both provide government subsidies to companies who keep on workers even though there's little or no work for them to do. Both have recently...
...open question whether these schemes make much of a difference. In the short term, they may well slow the rise in unemployment. But if the current crisis continues, as many economists are predicting, at least for this year and probably into 2010, even pay cuts, work-sharing schemes and shorter working hours won't be enough to safeguard jobs. "The real issue is can it be sustained?" Torres asks...
...prided himself on avoiding, a fact Republicans were quick to point out. It dropped the long-term inclusion of the costly Alternative Minimum Tax fix - an annual must-pass bill to prevent the tax once intended for the superrich from hitting the middle class - and opted for a shorter time line of just five years vs. the 10-year budget the White House had crafted. "Given the state of the economy, everyone agrees that it's very difficult to predict the next five years," said Senator Mark Pryor, an Arkansas Democrat, "let alone 10 years...
...industrial estate, Pi Research develops software to run wind-tunnel tests, and collects and scrutinizes the findings for Renault and a handful of other teams. Program manager John Frankham says the new limits on testing are "not necessarily bad for us." Getting as much data as possible in the shorter time available will be increasingly important, he says. But as team budgets are squeezed, "we need to be cleverer" than competitors, says Frankham. "We have to think harder and harder...