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...filled with people dying for 30-hour days. If only everyone had more time! It’s a phenomenon that seems to cross class and cultural lines. It’s not just college-educated investment bankers that run themselves ragged; even the cashier at the local grocery store likely has a heavily scheduled life...
...overrun with economic development that she can apparently turn companies away. Perhaps she's waiting for a Toyota plant. Brewer helps run a city where rookie cops earn $25,000 a year. On an hourly basis, that's barely above what Wal-Mart is paying in its Secaucus, N.J., store. Maybe the cops can get a second job to make ends meet, since they can't afford to live in the city they protect. The same city where sweatshops thrive in Chinatown, immigrant Mexican help has been grossly underpaid by immigrant Korean deli owners, and immigrant African deliverymen had been...
...unions have got their walled-city approach wrong. Here's the UFCW, which has been losing membership at a steady pace, turning down a historic opportunity. You can't organize stores that don't exist, Stu. Supermarkets have been pulling out of the city, not moving in, given the high costs and the competition from retail banks for the store space. And Wal-Mart has kicked the UFCW's ass all over the country - there's not a single union Wal-Mart store anywhere. Whatsa matter, Stu, you don't got game for those hicks from Arkansas? This...
...system still operates under an anachronistic assumption: that modern parents can control what their children see. Junior can buy a ticket for a PG-13 film and stroll into an auditorium showing an R. Or a few months later, he and his friends can rent it from a video store, where kids are rarely carded. Or they go to Wal-Mart and buy the even grottier "unrated" version. (Wal-Mart won't sell R-rated movies to kids under 17, but it will sell unrated ones. Hostel was a No. 1 seller there.) Or they watch lurid clips on YouTube...
Beard Papa's is the Dunkin' Donuts of Japan, only it has replaced fried dough with cream puffs on steroids. It opened its first U.S. store in 2003 and has been invading mall spots. Inside each store, Japanese women in uniforms push down on metal levers to plop rich, creamy custard mixed with whipped cream into oversize profiterole shells. Like so much of Japanese culture, Beard Papa's has taken our creation and refracted it through the mythological wholesomeness of America in the 1950s--which is just what you want fast-food dessert to taste like...