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...their problems, there's no question that the Detroit Three will have some competitive cars. GM has already made the case with its award-winning Chevy Malibu. The 2009 Buick LaCrosse recently topped all midsize competitors in the dependability ratings of J.D. Power & Associates. That's a positive sign, given that Buick is such an important brand for GM in China. Ford, which is in the best shape of the Detroit Three, has found success in its new Edge, in its F-150 pickup and in a global restructuring that will bring the best products from its overseas operations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Detroit Be Retooled — Before It's Too Late? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...cuts. Several Taiwanese high-tech companies, for example, began a forced policy of unpaid leave at the end of last year, prompting hundreds of workers to protest in front of the government's Council of Labor Affairs. The council requires that employers pay at least minimum wages and sign agreements with their employees on the terms of the unpaid leave. Even so, workers often feel they have little choice but to accept the policy. Michael Kramer works at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), the world's largest semiconductor foundry. Since January, he and all the other 20,000 employees have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can These Jobs Be Saved? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are now the longest waged by an all-volunteer force in U.S. history. Even as soldiers rotate back into the field for multiple and extended tours, the Army requires a constant supply of new recruits. But the patriotic fervor that led so many to sign up after 9/11 is now eight years past. That leaves recruiters with perhaps the toughest, if not the most dangerous, job in the Army. Last year alone, the number of recruiters who killed themselves was triple the overall Army rate. Like posttraumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, recruiter suicides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Army Recruiters Killing Themselves? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...Wartime Challenge Behind the neat desks and patriotic posters in 1,650 Army recruiting stations on Main Streets and in strip malls is a work environment as stressful in its own way as combat. The hours are long, time off is rare, and the demand to sign up at least two recruits a month is unrelenting. Soldiers who have returned from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan now constitute 73% of recruiters, up from 38% in 2005. And for many of them, the pressure is just too much. "These kids are coming back from Iraq with problems," says a former Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Army Recruiters Killing Themselves? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

...surprising, then, that some recruiters ignore red flags to enlist marginal candidates. "I've seen [recruiters] make kids drink gallons of water trying to flush marijuana out of their system before they take their physicals," one Houston recruiter says privately. "I've seen them forge signatures." Sign up a pair of enlistees in a month and a recruiter is hailed; sign up none and he can be ordered to monthly Saturday sessions, where he is verbally pounded for his failure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Are Army Recruiters Killing Themselves? | 4/2/2009 | See Source »

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