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...Boss? may be a glorified infomercial, but it's also a fascinating dip into the service economy, with all its margin pressures and enforced hilarity. John Selvaggio, president of discount airline Song, has to wear a name tag with the moniker "Jammin' John" when he works the gate. Nicknames, the narrator tells us, are mandatory at Song, at which "they've banned grumpiness and attitude!" The screen flashes factoids (the average bed change takes 7 min.), and we learn lingo like "the 10-and-5 rule" (you look at hotel guests when they're 10 ft. away and greet them...
...decades," he says, "most people have not seen an ops center like ours, not even at NASA in Houston." Automated readers, located every 30 miles along the 33,000-mile system, scan the bar codes of passing cars and locomotives--basically the rail version of a toll tag--and wirelessly transmit that information. Customers can log on to the company's website to track shipments in near real time or get the data sent to their BlackBerries...
Blau said that given the high price tag for these projects, foundations such as the Ellison Foundation and HHMI are to be commended for supporting stem cell research...
...Bendel in New York City--sell vintage alongside contemporary collections. "It's as if it was another label," says Tiffany Dubin, the author of Vintage Style: Buying and Wearing Classic Vintage Clothes, who introduced couture auctions to Sotheby's in 1997 and owns the vintage outpost Lair ("an uptown tag sale," she says) at Bendel...
...Marines have been sent in to secure the American embassy in Port au-Prince as Haiti braces for a bloodbath. A rag-tag rebel militia on Monday overran the country's second city, Cap Haitien, and vowed to press on to the capital in order to unseat President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Aristide, who was restored to power by U.S. military intervention in 1994 following a coup remains the country's elected president, but opposition groups point to electoral fraud in the 2000 parliamentary election to argue that he has no legitimacy nor any intent to submit to the will...