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...there is an unsettling permanence to the falling-wage trend, as companies hold the line on compensation so they can compete in an increasingly global economy in which low costs are key to survival. The ugly truth, which you won't hear on the campaign trail, is that even as economic growth picks up--as it surely will--there isn't a lot Washington can do to encourage employers to hand out more raises. Cost pressures will be so intense during the next expansion, business experts say, that companies are likely to stick to their guns. They will outsource more...
Sorenstam, 32, insists that going up against the boys has nothing to do with blazing a feminist trail in men's sports. It's about one woman, her game and her purely selfish motives. "I would not have gotten all this attention if I were not a good golfer," she says. "This is a way to push myself to another level. This is for myself...
...been behind it. Curfews, either military-ordered or self-imposed, were in effect in every Acehnese town. Meanwhile, in Lhokseumawe in northern Aceh?the military's command center for its largest campaign since the 1975 invasion of East Timor?rifle-toting police in ski masks patrolled the streets on trail bikes. In the countryside, newly arrived marines were entrenched in the ruins of houses torched in previous failed campaigns to wipe out the rebels. Indonesian flags, raised by each Acehnese household by order of the military, fluttered over deserted roads...
There's nothing like rounding the corner of a Himalayan trail in the rain and finding your cook making a hot meal. Unless your cook is Sikkimese. Our cook-he never offered a name-made good tea and noodle soup. But the rest of his food was an appalling improvisation-exemplified by his signature deep-fried cheese-and-tomato-and-peanut-butter-and-jam sandwich...
...cast as a mystery, "a story waiting to be finished," say authors Richard Pyle and Horst Faas, though from the outset the facts are fairly clear. The helicopter carrying Burrows and co., who were covering a doomed U.S.-supported offensive into Laos to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail, received a direct hit from enemy antiaircraft fire and plunged burning into the jungle. Chances of survival: almost nil. For Pyle and Faas, a reporter and a photographer who covered the Vietnam War for the Associated Press, this book is both a public tribute and a personal pilgrimage that ultimately leads...