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Putting in long hours and getting little rest are bad enough. But people who work unusual shifts face a double whammy. About 20% of U.S. employees toil during the evening or night hours, or rotate through day, evening and night duty. Such workers are both sleep starved and out of synch with their natural sleep-wake cycle. For most people, biological alertness peaks in the morning and early evening. It dips mildly in the afternoon (hence the tendency toward midday naps) and plummets between midnight and dawn. Night workers are butting against those rhythms, forcing themselves to stay awake just...
...Japanese system that uses "half the human effort in the factory, half the manufacturing space, half the investment in tools, half the engineering hours to develop a new product." At Saturn, team members rejected the traditional U.S. form of assembly line, where workers do two things at once -- toil and shuffle -- as they struggle to keep up with car bodies creeping down the line. On the Saturn "skillet" line, workers ride along on a moving wooden conveyor belt as they do their jobs, which enables them to concentrate on their work. Other progressive steps are the use of water-borne...
...reluctant superpower seeks an end to toil. Which is why Americans are endlessly resourceful in trying to evade the burdens of history. First, there was the isolationism of the '20s and '30s. Then, during the cold war, the American left counseled abdication, denying either that the cold war existed or that it was anything more than a cozy arrangement to keep the Pentagon and the paranoid right happy...
...colleagues are competent and consistent workers who attempt to improve undergraduate life. They do not toil solely because of that extra line on their resumes, nor do they perceive grandiose visions of power. And they definitely are not trying to protect their jobs (from what? Who would want to take the position of a scapegoat...
...proved that an eccentric artist can toil in American TV without compromising his vision, and in doing so he helped loose the bonds of the prime-time straitjacket. Who was the last fellow to pull off that parlay -- Ernie Kovacs? And what filmmaker as inimitable as Lynch has ever sponsored other directors to clone his style? The quirky outsider is close to becoming David Lynch...