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...after the official end of the last U.S. recession, American factories ranging from textile plants in North Carolina to machine-tool plants in Ohio are still closing their doors. In many cases, older installations have been replaced by hundreds of smaller, more competitive plants, but the powerful images of smokeless smokestacks and dying industrial towns haunt many corners of the American landscape. Amid that painful change, the number of U.S. blue-collar jobs has dramatically declined, just as employment in the newer and often lower-paying service sector has soared. The trend will continue. The U.S. Department of Labor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SINGING THE SHUTDOWN BLUES U.S. industry undergoes a wrenching change, but it could be for the good | 7/21/2008 | See Source »

Forget peanuts or pork scratchings. Bars these days are competing for the drinker's dollar with increasingly imaginative food - and the global trend toward smokeless venues is creating pleasant environments in which to savor it. In Singapore, a cluster of gastrobars, as they're called, are becoming dining destinations in their own right, dishing out the likes of o-toro sashimi and Boston lobster to famished partygoers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Singapore, they're making a meal out of gastrobars | 7/9/2008 | See Source »

...Betty Dodson’s “Sex for One: The Joy of Self-Loving,” all of which seek to do away with the physical and emotional risks of sex. If the purists had their way, we would all live virtuous lives as smokeless, teetotaling, celery-stuffed, masturbating wimps—lonely, bored, and cowering in fear...

Author: By David L. Golding | Title: Life Kills | 9/11/2007 | See Source »

...Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee to argue in support of legislation recently introduced by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) and Representative Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) calling upon the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to regulate the cigarette and smokeless tobacco industries. A similar bill calling for FDA regulation passed in the Senate three years ago but failed in the House of Representatives. Connolly said he hopes that FDA regulation of the tobacco industry will lead to greater reductions in the level of nicotine found in cigarettes. “We?...

Author: By Gabriel J. Daly, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Prof To Fight Big Tobacco In Senate | 2/22/2007 | See Source »

...packages, which were discovered by mail clerks, read "Bang! You're dead." The boxes arrived at American Century Investments in Kansas City and Perkins, Wolf, McDonnell and Co., a Chicago financial services company. Both had all the makings of a pipe bomb, a PVC pipe filled with buckshot and smokeless powder, plus protruding wires. But the sender had not included a power source, which indicated to investigators that the Bishop, meant to terrify, not kill - at least not yet. Still, while the devices lacked some components, they could have exploded from static electricity or "even a transmission from a handheld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Another Unabomber in the Making? | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

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