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I spend my days trapped, sometimes for eight or 14 hours at a stretch. My captors twist. They squeeze. My skin blisters under pitiless, chafing leather straps. I’m talking, of course, about high heels and the utter agony of dealing with them all day as I hop...
A few weeks ago, I spoke at the commencement at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill. I stood in view of the spot where Lincoln and Stephen Douglas held one of their famous debates during their race for the U.S. Senate. The only way for Lincoln to get onto the podium...
Taiwan's electronics makers thrive in anonymity, however. The relentless decline in tech hardware prices is putting pressure on the bottom line?profit margins on a Taiwan-made notebook PC, for example, have fallen by half, to 5%, over the past three years. Caught in the big squeeze, Taiwan's...
The industry's recent relatively solid record of safety and efficiency has helped its image. In the past decade, electricity deregulation has ushered in a wave of nuclear consolidation, with major powers like Exelon, Entergy, Duke and Dominion Resources paying billions of dollars to buy up many of the nation...
And the squeeze could worsen if Cambridge officials cut the number of voucher recipients—which they say may be necessary after the federal government reduced Section 8 funding to the city by $1.2 million last year.