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...have no idea. Maybe riding Greyhound buses around the country writing about people I meet in that sector of society—not flying or taking the train, but with enough money to be traveling, and interesting reasons for doing so. NPR beat me to it though...
...There are train wrecks periodically,” he says. “It has to actually happen...
...time I formulated a face-saving reply, my wife had moved down the hall to prep the little one for the day. Figuring I would do my share to ease the morning routine, I took our son, 3, for a spin online. He's a train fanatic, so we headed to www.thomas thetankengine.com to play games, solve puzzles and--whoops!--spill apple juice all over my wife's pristine white laptop. Springing into action, I sopped up the mess before she saw it. Disaster averted...
...finding creative solutions to hold down labor costs. Under pressure from the state of Lower Saxony, which owns a 22% stake in the automaker and occupies two seats on its supervisory board, VW in 2001 agreed to hire 5,000 unemployed people and work with local government agencies to train them. In return, VW will have greater leeway in setting their hours according to production demands. Part of the deal also entails that workers form teams to solve assembly-line glitches. Cost-cutting isn't enough, though. For VW to grow profits, it will need to sell plenty of those...
...based on Wahhabism, a rigorous brand of Islam that accepts the Koran as literal truth. Concerns about the academy peaked in early October when Panorama, a popular tele-vision program, aired a video purporting to show the school's Imam and teacher, Anas Bayram, telling parents how to train their children in spear throwing, swimming and horseback riding in order to prepare for jihad. Bayram denies that he was urging violence, saying he only meant to encourage parents to ensure that their children are physically fit. The Panorama documentary contained some distortions. The program quotes an essay from an Islamic...