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...Carolina twisters formed the front line of a monster storm system that turned into a howlingly lethal nor'easter as it moved up the Atlantic Coast. On Thursday, the tenth day of spring, and on into Friday morning, heavy, wet snow, sometimes mixed with sleet and accompanied by thunder and lightning, fell from Virginia to Maine. Up to two feet of snow piled up in central New York State. Snowplows clearing runways at Boston's Logan Airport occasionally ground to a halt when their drivers were bunded in whiteouts of whirling flakes...
Canon's factories are models of efficiency. Its main camera plant, situated 150 miles north of Tokyo at the base of snow-capped Azuma Mountain, is so automated that certain sections are staffed only by robots. Most of the factory's 2,000 employees, 60% of them women, work in the final assembly stage, where the tasks are more complicated. Canon's philosophy exhorts workers to avoid the "nine wastes," which include such sins as excess inventory or defects of any kind. The results are nearly picture perfect. Factory Boss Toshio Endo boasts that in a batch...
...group has been charged with stealing more than $50,000 worth of goods, including musical instruments, jewelry, two computers, a snow blower and an oriental rug worth $25,000 in Newton, according to Detective Walter L. Boyle...
...They can pick up the phone and sell a piece of property immediately," Giacoppo said, explaining, "Someone could say, 'I need a snow blower,' and they'd get [an order...
...snow had barely melted from Olympic Gold Medalist Bill Johnson's skis before the brash Californian was burning up yet another course last week. Johnson's current speeding is not on the slopes of Canada's Whistler Mountain, where he won the final race of the men's World Cup downhill season earlier this month, but on the horizontal track at California's Riverside International Raceway. Johnson, who was gearing up for the pro-celebrity during the Toyota Grand Prix to be held this week in Long Beach, Calif., is typically nonchalant about trading...