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Gary Stern talks like somebody stuck a quarter in him, which is appropriate since he's the last manufacturer of commercial pinball machines in the world. But don't make the mistake of calling him that. "We say only," he explains. "We don't like to say last because it sounds like maybe we're not gonna be around. We are. Pinball is an American icon. It has to survive. We need to continue to have pinball...
...buckle. Honda, for example, halted production at its U.S. auto plants due to a shortage of parts, while suppliers to Sony and Dell were forced to ship critical components by air, an expensive stop-gap solution. Thousands of cars en route to the U.S. were among many Asian exports stuck idling offshore on cargo vessels or parked on Hong Kong and Singapore docks...
...party, few seemed willing to touch the more racialized side of the theme; partygoers stuck with the “wife-beater” shirts and aviator sunglasses which manifested the much safer “trash” side...
...cutthroat competition for the best students between schools, fostered by the U.S. News & World Report rankings, there would be less direct pressure for colleges to improve undergraduate education and college life. In a world without competition, colleges could all provide the same crummy undergraduate experience, and students would be stuck without a better option...
What do you miss when you're adrift on a merciless ocean? "Mostly TV," admits Californian RICHARD VAN PHAM, 62, who says he was stuck in a boat for nearly four months on the Pacific's high seas. Pham says a voyage planned as a three-day trip to Santa Catalina Island went scarily wrong when a hook attached to his mast snapped and his radio went dead. He says he then floated for 2,500 miles, living at first on a two-month supply of rice, beans, tomatoes and water, then on rainwater, tuna and turtles, until...