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Take two tea bags and call me...
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Thu Jan 20, 4:46 PM ET
Washington, D.C., architect Rula Jawdat, 44, used to drink both tea and coffee. But the caffeine got to be too much for her, so she dropped the bean. "Tea is more meditative," she says. And she knows it's supposed to be good for you. "I'm totally into that stuff."
Big box meets big brother
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Thu Jan 20, 4:46 PM ET
For big-box retailers with razor-thin margins--and that's pretty much all of them--knowledge isn't just power; it's also profit. A manager needs to know and understand what's happening in every square foot of his giant store, from the backroom warehouse to the sales floor. At Wal-Mart, Saturday afternoons are a peak period for high-turnover products like shampoo and toothpaste. Ideally, Wal-Mart would employ a real-time technology system that would quickly alert stockers to reshelve these products. ...
Pension tension
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Thu Jan 20, 4:46 PM ET
DUNDALK, MD.--For 36 years, whenever his boss at now defunct Bethlehem Steel asked, Edmond Groff worked overtime. Double shifts--16-hour workdays--at the company's Sparrows Point plant near Baltimore were common. Sometimes the steelworker drove home, showered, donned fresh clothes, and returned for a third shift. The reason: Bethlehem had a long-standing contract with the union to increase the pensions of steelworkers who put in a lot of overtime. "I worked to get money so my wife and I would have time to be together and travel," says Groff, now 56.
Corporate honchos take care of their own first
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Thu Jan 20, 4:46 PM ET
Executives increasingly insist that pensions are a luxury corporations can no longer afford--except for themselves, that is. Many executives whose companies have reneged on pension promises to workers have been careful to ensure their own big monthly retirement checks. In 2002, United Airlines lured Glenn Tilton to be chief with a prepaid retirement benefit worth $4.5 million. United says that it simply matched what Tilton would have earned had he stayed at ChevronTexaco and that no other executives have guaranteed pensions. ...
More smoke than fire
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Wed Jan 19, 4:40 PM ET
Boo! I say that only to be helpful. After all, the White House is hoping that fear will pervade the public--and the Congress--as it launches the opening salvos of Operation Social Security Salvage. President Bush was vague about details, but judging from his public "conversation" with "fellow citizens" last Tuesday, and from a leaked White House staffer E-mail, "this president" (as he is chest-thumpingly referred to in White House parlance) wants to let workers divert part of their payroll taxes into private investment accounts. ...
Time for a reality check
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Wed Jan 19, 4:40 PM ET
The world is enjoying a moment of hope for Israeli-Palestinian relations--a moment of dangerous hope because expectations are being raised too high. The election of Mahmoud Abbas as president of the Palestinian Authority (PA) to succeed Yasser Arafat is a positive. Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, has advocated an end to the intifada terrorism, and Palestinian public opinion seems to have recoiled from the corruption and violence associated with Arafat's regime. A Palestinian majority, finally, may have come to recognize that their war of terror will never lead to peace. ...
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Bush 2.0
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Wed Jan 19, 4:40 PM ET
Only a handful of inaugural addresses have resonated down the ages. In 1789, George Washington made the case for American exceptionalism by declaring that "the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty" hinged on the success of democracy in the United States. In 1865, Abraham Lincoln urged his nation to move beyond the recriminations of the Civil War--"with malice toward none, with charity for all." In the Depression year of 1933, Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." And in 1961, John F. ...
Democrats still get a vote
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Wed Jan 19, 4:40 PM ET
The start of the second George W. Bush term bears a special humiliation for congressional Democrats, who paid a particularly high price for their efforts to stymie his agenda on Capitol Hill and their constant criticism of the administration's handling of the war in Iraq.
Preventing disaster
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Tue Jan 18, 5:01 PM ET
Phil Cummins heard about the Sumatran tsunami in much the same way as the rest of the unaffected world: by flipping on the TV. But when the 44-year-old American seismologist first saw the reports at his Canberra, Australia, home on December 26, his sinking recognition may well have been unique. "As soon as they said 'tsunami, Sumatra,' " he recalls, "I knew exactly what it was."
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Keeping a war on hold?
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Tue Jan 18, 5:01 PM ET
KALLADY, SRI LANKA--The cease-fire has held for almost three years, but here in the sandy courtyard of the Ramakrishna Mission Girls' School, a Sri Lankan Army officer and a Tamil Tiger rebel are fighting--albeit over a package of milk. Lieutenant Alwis, 25, glowers at 20-year-old Kalairasan. "I am in charge of this camp!" he shouts in Sinhalese, which a policeman then translates into Tamil. Kalairasan turns away, frowning. ...
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