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Welcome to the workplace of the jobless recovery, where keeping your position means that your In box swells, your pay and benefits shrink, and bathroom amenities don't magically appear. In an office haunted by the ghosts of laid-off employees, those workers who dodged the hatchet aren't necessarily the lucky ones. They must excel at their old jobs to avoid still looming staff cuts and must also juggle extra, unfamiliar duties...
...computer monitors can shrink to almost nothing, why not keyboards? They soon may. Two companies have developed prototype "virtual" keyboards designed to accompany portable devices like PDAs, tablet PCs and cell phones. Here's how they work: a laser beam projects a glowing red outline of a keyboard on a desk or other flat surface. A sensor like those used in digital cameras monitors the reflection of an infrared light projected on the same spot. It can tell which "keys" you are trying to strike by the way that reflection changes. Someday, similar keyboards may be built into the gadgets...
...This is out moment, and I hope we will not shrink from it,” he said...
...bluebook looks like—that’s what your message is going to be when you speak on TV.” Despite this, Mansfield argues that professors should still use television to get across their messages. “You mustn’t shrink from being labeled or given a persona, because that’s pretty much inevitable,” Mansfield says...
...names like "Erotic Bitches" and "Moulin Rouge." But on October 15, the county government, embarrassed by the display of public erotica, began enforcing laws prohibiting 1,600 hawkers from unduly exposing certain parts of the female anatomy, specifically breasts, bellies and buttocks. Vendors, of course, claim the restrictions will shrink demand for betel nuts. "It's all about competition," says 19-year-old hawker Hsiao Enn, who works in a crimson miniskirt and revealing blouse. "But I have principles. I'm not so desperate as to show my private parts." Josephine Ho, a professor at Taiwan's National Central University...