Word: washed
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Michael Gurian, a Spokane, Wash., therapist and author of A Fine Young Man, and Harvard psychiatry professor William Pollack, author of Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood, argue that boys are in crisis from emotional undernourishment. Though our culture views them as testosterone-driven demons, boys are much more fragile than many adults realize. And that's about all they agree on; where they clash is on the origin of the difficulties and how to avert them...
Well, not entirely. While Boeing managers crowed about the production results last week, mechanics were rushing to complete 13 behind-schedule NG 737s parked outside the company's overstrained plant in Renton, Wash. Inside the cavernous building, workers struggled to avoid further delays even as Boeing was planning to speed up the NG 737 line from 14 planes a month to 21 to further clear the backlog. Says Boeing chairman Phil Condit: "We've still got some things to do." Like making money on the hot-selling 737s. Boeing has already written off $437 million after taxes against the first...
Things got so bad that Boeing halted its 737 and 747 lines for nearly a month last October to clear up the snarl. The time-out eased congestion at the huge 747 factory in nearby Everett, Wash., which had raised its production from 3.5 planes a month to 4. But executives have been holding their breath as Renton strained to produce even 14 NG 737s a month before ratcheting up to 21 this fall...
...help by flicking on a light. (Yellow indicates a question, and red is "urgent.") At the same time, Boeing is switching to the Japanese practice of lean inventory management that delivers parts and tools to workers precisely as needed. At a 500,000-sq.-ft. parts plant in Auburn, Wash., assembly teams build everything from wing parts to landing-gear doors in self-contained "cells" that replaced assembly lines that snaked from wall to wall...
...music. These are not to blame. When I was at a young age, my mom gave me "the talk" and wasn't embarrassed or hush-hush about the topic. The result is, I plan to abstain from sex until I'm married. JULIA SWEET, age 16 Mercer Island, Wash...