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...Iraqi doctor interviewed by TIME who examined Uday in Baghdad last December says he continues to suffer from seizures and spastic reactions in the muscles of his left leg. His butlers, says one of them, pushed him around his houses in a wheelchair and changed his stainless-steel bedpans when they were full. Uday slept in a twin-size metal-frame hospital bed attended not by fawning women but by a full-time physiotherapist and a butler who says that when he helped him put on his socks each day, Uday screamed in agony...
...return, thousands of laid-off workers were recalled at their old hourly rate. If they meet specific production targets, they get a bonus every two weeks. The system is working: ISG is now among the world's most efficient manufacturers of flat rolled steel for cars and appliances, producing it for about $348 a ton shipped--about 25% cheaper than French and Japanese steel. In the last six months of 2002, steelworkers at LTV collected average bonuses equal to seven weeks' pay. Now Ross is looking at union rules and wages in the tire and auto industries--both...
Even workers who receive small boosts in their base pay often see those raises wiped out by cuts in health and retirement benefits. The biggest benefit rollbacks are in heavy industries like steel, in which many union contracts in the U.S. give foreign firms a 10%-to-20% edge in production costs, according to ISG's Ross. He says there is more health-care expense than steel expense embedded in the price of a typical car. In most countries, health-care costs are borne by taxpayers, and until the U.S. levels the playing field, perhaps with a "health-care surcharge...
...derelict, 340-acre Army post in Marfa, Texas. Judd filled it mostly with his rows of concrete, wood or aluminum boxes, the alpha and omega of Minimalist sculpture. It's Dia that in 1977 paid for and still superintends The Lightning Field by Walter De Maria--400 stainless-steel poles arrayed in a rectangular grid in the desert of New Mexico: width, 1 km; length, 1 mile. If Dia had been around 4,500 years ago, the pyramids at Giza could have been financed with foundation grants...
...what you can only describe as faith in De Maria. For his Equal Area Series, 1976-77, the museum is devoting two galleries the length of football fields. At intervals along the floor is a polished steel circle next to a polished steel square, different shapes but each encompassing an equal area: 25 pairs in all. Judd is represented by some of his dryest, most unyielding output: not his colored aluminum boxes, which can have their share of sunlit surface incidents, but the eat-your-spinach plywood of Untitled...