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...come to a halt. On Oct. 13 Opel suspended production at Eisenach for three weeks to help sell off a stockpile of excess cars, hundreds of which crowd a parking lot inside the factory complex. Opel electrician Katrin Huber, 29, isn't happy about this vacation. "The plant shutdown is going to cost me more than $400," she says. "But worse is that we just don't know what the future holds. I'm afraid that the plant could close...
...Kiss Tóthné, president of Zalabaromfi's work council, says the looming shutdown would hit particularly hard because many of Zalabaromfi's employees are 50 or older and have few other options in the region. "And there are a lot of couples working for Zalabaromfi, which means whole families will be out of a job," she says. At age 55, Kiss Tóthné worries that for her, too, it will be "impossible to find a new job ... At times like these, I feel that if I had a gun I would shoot myself...
...paid sick days) may not lead to closure. "Restaurants only have the incentive to do what they need to do to stay open," says Klein. "The consumer would never know how close they were to being shut down." According to the CSPI, violations that justify immediate shutdown are relatively extreme - such as an open sewer line in the kitchen or a broken water heater...
...Scrabble rebellion rages on! After forcing the shutdown on Facebook of a popular Scrabble knockoff called Scrabulous, Hasbro promoted its own online version. Fans of Scrabulous, which had 500,000 daily users, went wild--and not in a good way. A "Save Scrabulous" group now has more than 50,000 members. Other protest groups include "Give Us Scrabulous or Give Us Death!" and "Please God, I Have So Little: Don't Take Scrabulous...
...extradition papers, the U.S. government alleges, among other things, that between Feb. 2001 and March 2002 McKinnon hacked into 81 U.S. armed forces computers and another 16 belonging to NASA, compromised the safety of Navy ships, stole documents and passwords, triggered the shutdown of a 2000-terminal Washington network, deleted critical files and caused a total of $700,000 worth of damage. For his part, McKinnon admits to being a regular cyber-intruder, but has claimed he was searching for some trace of an alien energy technology he believed the U.S. government had discovered and reverse-engineered but was keeping...