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Perhaps most frustrating, GM's American factories are now nearly as productive as Toyota's U.S. plants, yet Toyota has the advantage of not having to pay health-care bills for a small city of retirees, population 340,000. One GM worker supports 2.65 retirees, adding $1,100 in "legacy" costs to each American-made vehicle, says Sean McAlinden, an economist at the Center for Automotive Research. While the Japanese government pays for most Toyota retirees in Japan, GM shelled out $3.6 billion to pay for retiree health care just last year. GM's turnaround plan is a high-wire...
...Sydney, is an unlikely location for a fashion label?but that hasn't deterred the three young Foong sisters, Rowena, Juliana and Angela. The Chinese-Malaysians emigrated to Newcastle in 1988 but maintained strong Asian ties, absorbing everything from Asian movies to the tales of their goldsmith and craft-worker grandparents. High Tea With Mrs Woo, a name inspired by the girls' idea of getting dressed up for an afternoon of dumplings, tea and conversation with their imaginary Asian muse, was launched last summer. At the moment, Mrs Woo is only in available in Australia, but the buzz is mounting...
...could such horrors have gone undetected for so long? Twenty-one of the 23 families implicated were under the supervision of social workers, who paid frequent visits to their homes, offering advice on employment and finances. One teacher dropped by some of the children's homes regularly as part of France's "educational assistance" services for students needing remedial help. Three of the accused men had been convicted previously of pedophilia, including Marine V.'s grandfather, who in 1991 was sentenced to 13 years for raping his son. Officials from the regional council that oversees Angers' social services told Time...
...truffles have even infiltrated the center of French-truffle production. Every week, Cubaynes claims, these merchants show up at the market in Lalbenque with the same number of truffles in their baskets, a suspicious constancy. "It's cheating the consumer," says Cubaynes, "and it's also cheating the honest worker...
...speak directly to the people, who will inevitably judge him against the standard of his imposing predecessor, friend and boss. This small, unassuming white-haired figure who we will now and forever know as Benedict XVI told the piazza this evening that he was just a "simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord." Now he must begin to fill the role of pastor, of leader of the flock, a shepherd who can move the faithful and cast his own large shadow across this grand piazza, this blessed city, and a turbulent world outside...