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...announcement by General Motors that it will close its Willow Run transmission plant as part of its restructuring is being taken as a sign of how far the auto giant has fallen. Willow Run is, deservedly, a legend. But the lessons from its history are not entirely the ones usually drawn...
...Willow Run, almost on the edge of Ann Arbor, Mich., was built not by GM but by Ford, opening in April 1942. From the start, its job was to turn out B-24 bombers, the workhorse of the U.S. Army Air Force's strategic campaigns in World War II, unaffectionately known to its crews as "the flying shithouse." The plant took a while to get going. There was a shortage of local labor, which meant that workers had to be imported from Appalachia (Ypsilanti, a local town, became known as "Ypsitucky"). Mosquitoes plagued the site until Henry Ford imported...
...Often described as a writer who straddles the line between literary and commercial fiction, she is known for her artful family dramas that play on hot-button, ripped-from-the-headlines themes, such as spousal abuse and euthanasia. Her latest novel, Handle With Care, centers on the family of Willow O'Keefe, a smart, beautiful little girl with brittle bone disease. TIME senior reporter Andrea Sachs reached Picoult (pronounced PEA-co) at her home in New Hampshire. (See the top 10 fiction books...
...Tell me about Willow, the little girl in your new novel. Willow is a little girl who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta (OI), which is commonly known as brittle bone disease. Willow has the most severe form you can have without dying at birth. She will have hundreds to thousands of bone breaks over the course of a lifetime. She'll wind up with curvature of the spine. She'll have a compromised respiratory system because of the shape of her ribcage. She'll never be more than about three feet tall. It's a very tough physical existence...
...strapped by caring for a disabled child. And insurance doesn't cover it. And she winds up figuring out, with the help of an attorney, that if she sues her obstetrician for wrongful birth, she might end up with a payout that will allow her to take care of Willow for the rest of her life in comfort. The catch is that she has to stand up in court and say, "If I had known that Willow was going to have this disease, I would have terminated the pregnancy." And that's a very real part of a wrongful birth...