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Brett Wells, director of operations at QAC Inc., an electronics-manufacturing contractor in Pelham, N.H., says his employer is being drawn deeper into a network of shifting alliances with designers of X-ray machines, computers and cell phones. "They're becoming virtual manufacturers," Wells says, "while the real manufacturing is done by the contractors." QAC's customers are sending teams of auditors to the firm's factory to scrutinize its machinery, measure its capacity, ask about its other customers and even examine its financial statements...
...hand in Harvard’s 6-2 win over Cornell on April 7 when he was hit by a pitch at the plate and then took a line drive off the same spot while pitching. The injury continues to prevent him from batting pending the results of an x-ray early this week, but he showed no indications that it interfered with his efforts on the hill yesterday...
...gave up on ER post-George Clooney, this book is what you have been craving. Gawande is a writer with a scalpel pen and an X-ray eye, and in this memoir he applies them to the world of the stressed-out, sleep-deprived, terrifyingly fallible trainee surgeon, where life-or-death decisions are made on the basis of five cups of coffee and an educated guess. A surgical resident himself, Gawande turns every case--from gunshot wounds to morbid obesity to flesh-eating bacteria--into a thriller in miniature, with the author in the role of the oft-stymied...
...capture and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl shocked me [WORLD, March 4], but it also angered me. I have read the complaints voiced by foreign governments and various organizations over the treatment of the Afghan war detainees at Camp X-Ray. Yet Pearl's death is an example of the unspeakable evil and merciless brutality of the terrorists. His murder should not be forgotten if others once again question the U.S.'s motives and actions in the fight against terror. DOUGLAS JORDAN Dunwoody...
...example has been obscured by a blizzard of Bush words and deeds that strike many Europeans as tone-deaf or worse: lumping North Korea, Iran and Iraq in a (speechwriter-coined) "axis of evil"; the disdain for the Geneva Conventions shown in the early treatment of prisoners at Camp X-Ray; his repudiation of the Kyoto climate accords in favor of voluntary compliance by U.S. industry; a refusal to lean on Israel, or even to engage deeply in the peace process, for six months as violence has soared; and his decision last week to set tariffs on steel imports, which...