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...week period and that 12-hour shifts will lead to more driving hours in which truckers are fatigued. The American Trucking Association, meanwhile, argues that truckers' livelihoods would be hurt because the regulation would limit their maximum hours - particularly on jobs that are time-sensitive. No matter how you slice it, the program would be costly both to drivers and to shipping companies. And that, of course, means higher prices to consumers, with one federal agency estimating that the economy will take a $3.4 billion hit over 10 years. It's too bad they can't e-mail those goods...
...back into a Young Pioneer. But then Castro had an even better idea: Why not have Elian's "reinsertion" into Cuban society take place inside the U.S., namely by sending Juan Miguel--surrounded by Elian's teachers, classmates, psychiatrists and family members--to Washington to create a little slice of home? Havana even wanted to send his old desk from school, which has since become something of a shrine...
...other leading scenario is to slice Microsoft into several "Baby Bills": mirror-image companies that all have equal rights to Windows. An advantage to this approach is that it would create real competition in the operating-system market. Since the Baby Bills would be fighting for market share, each would have a strong incentive to improve Windows--to offer it more cheaply, to make it more crash resistant...
...poke fun at her, but I couldn't-I'm the one responsible for getting her hooked on the BSB since I sent her to their concert in September to write that now infamous cover story for our first issue. Back then, I wanted a mean, whip-smart slice-and-dice piece on the Boys, but she fell in love with them and proselytizes incessantly. "You know how it's Jesus week?" she told me yesterday, "For me, it's BSB week!!" Moral of the story: Cynicism comes back to bite you in the ass. (Oh, and she wants everyone...
...they promise one year's free rent in Los Angeles and "all the coolest parties" to the woman who sends in the best demo tape. That's a cool deal, but is this an indication of a true boom in on-line listening? Or just trying to grab a slice of a fixed pie? Has any singer or band become famous solely through Internet distribution...