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...Very well for the consumer, naturally. For airlines, the nightmare continues in a stream of profit warnings and shrunken timetables. This is, opines Richard Stirland, director general of the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, "merely the end of the beginning" of the crisis. In Manila, a Philippine Airlines spokesman echoes the mood of many in aviation: "I've just come from a meeting, and I can tell you we can't see the end of the tunnel. When will schedules get back to normal? We can't think about anything except cost cutting right...
...love with her from afar and exchanged only a few words with her as he quietly stalked her when she was still vital. Now he chatters endlessly to her--mostly about music, plays and movies, including an erotic silent film, brilliantly concocted by Almodovar, in which a tiny, shrunken man is seen traversing the nude body of the lover who shrank...
Dell, the computer maker, hacked 6,000 of its 40,000 jobs over the past year. During that period, Dell has grown its revenues, profits and market share--thanks in part to the lower prices it could offer because of shrunken payrolls. "A lot of us are unhappy, but what are we going to do--go somewhere else?" says a longtime employee of the company, which is based in Austin, Texas. The computer industry ranks second after telecommunications in layoffs this year, according to Challenger, and that limits disgruntled workers' options...
Apart from the soulful brown eyes, there is scarcely any resemblance between the vibrant young woman in the pictures and the woman who now stands outside the Holyoke Gate, shrunken, in her woolen coat...
ROLL 'EM UP Laptop computers are practical tools--especially for business travelers--but pecking at their shrunken keyboards can be a pain. Enter the Manhattan True-Touch Roll-Up keyboard ($35). This laptop accessory is the same size as a full-fledged desktop keyboard but is encased in New Age flexible plastic that can be rolled up like a newspaper. Now if they could only perfect those roll-up screens...