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Three months after they got back to the US and reopened the plant, everything had changed. | 1clean |
Grievances and absenteeism fell away and workers started saying they actually enjoyed coming to work. | 1clean |
The Fremont factory, once one of the worst in the US, had skyrocketed to become the best. | 1clean |
The cars they made got near-perfect quality ratings. | 1clean |
And the cost to make them had plummeted. | 1clean |
Instead, a careful structure has been built: car parts roll down on a conveyor belt, each worker does one step of the process, everything is carefully designed and routinized. | 1clean |
If you have goals in life, you ’re probably going to need some sort of organization. | 1clean |
In 1967, Edward Jones and Victor Harris gathered a group of college students and asked them to judge another student ’s exam (the student was a fictional character, but let ’s call him Jim). | 1clean |
The exam always had one question, asking Jim to write an essay on Fidel Castro “as if [he] were giving the opening statement in a debate.” | 1clean |
You ’re leaning on the railing, waiting to ask Derya about a job, watching the glittering stream of mites that arc over half the sky — flying up to rewind their nanosprings in the stratospheric sunlight, flying down to make Frankfurt run. | 1clean |
Someone ’s hung it up here — a hundred meters of clean gray and green twentieth-century modernism, plucked up from the river Main and suspended in the chilly air 2,360 meters up, between a lump of wooded parkland and a cluster of antique subway cars. | 1clean |
She ’s wearing a 1950s sundress and a broad-brimmed hat, and it ’s like an essay on the last century — the austere steel bridge, the bright blobs of subway graffiti, and her yellow dress, flapping against her legs as she climbs over the bridge ’s rail. | 1clean |
Thin translucent shadows move across her — the shadows of the neosilk-and-nanotube filaments that hang the city from the hundreds of five-kilometer-high towers that encircle it. | 1clean |
(A civic agent notices you noticing, and attaches itself to your infospace, whispering statistics — | 1clean |
You ’re watching her lean out. | 1clean |
The wind whips her hair, ruffles the skirt around her knees. | 1clean |
Everyone tries it once — Except that there are n’t any mites around her. | 1clean |
Hot, animal fear surges in your chest. | 1clean |
She looks up at you and, across the gap of forty meters, smiles a brilliant, heartbreaking smile. | 1clean |
Then she lets go and falls. | 1clean |
“Fucking airsurfers,” says Derya. | 1clean |
He steps off the moving sidewalk near you: tall, hook-nosed, the fashionable whorls of pox and acne making constellations of his cheeks and chest; the glowing, formal tattoos of his committees and lifebrands adorning his massive triceps. | 1clean |
He gives you a hooded look. | 1clean |
“They infect themselves with some designer virus - | 1clean |
it lets them hack the city ’s person-recognition systems. | 1clean |
So the mites do n’t see them when they jump. | 1clean |
She ’s swept past the whalelike oval of the public pool on the 202nd, past the sloping mandala of the Google of offices on the 164th. | 1clean |
Now the mites are finally closing in. | 1clean |
A silver swarm coalesces around the 164th, and she vanishes into it, like a snip of scallion into cloudy miso soup. | 1clean |
When the cloud disperses, she ’s standing on one of the Stock Exchange ’s upside-down overhangs. | 1clean |
She waves, antlike, then crawls through a dormer window. | 1clean |
“It ’s not funny,” Derya says. | 1clean |
Ripple effects are causing project slowdowns...” | 1clean |
“Do n’t you quote the founders at me,” Derya snaps. | 1clean |
He stares until you meet his eye. | 1clean |
Her broad-brimmed hat is still sailing on the wind. | 1clean |
The mites missed it. | 1clean |
It cuts between the towers of the 50th. | 1clean |
There are heaps of yellowed euros and deutschmarks dumped here, like snowdrifts. | 1clean |
The city has no eyes or ears here. | 1clean |
She comes to you. | 1clean |
“You want it?” she says. | 1clean |
Eyes closing, she leans in for the kiss. | 1clean |
Steven wanted to be a dentist. | 1clean |
When, a couple of weeks later we were invited over to his house we saw that this was not an idle remark. | 1clean |
Where our bedroom walls were decorated with posters of pop stars and footballers, Steven had diagrams setting out tooth implementations, anatomical drawings of the jaw with brightly coloured nerves, muscle, blood vessels, bones, and, of course, teeth. | 1clean |
Where we had shelves of plastic dinosaurs and superhero figurines from cornflake boxes, Steven had plaster casts of jawbones, gums and teeth grinning down at us. | 1clean |
“They do n’t exactly encourage my interest,” he shrugged. | 1clean |
“They sort of tolerate it. | 1clean |
But Dad says they ’re a sort of collection, and too expensive for me to play with.” | 1clean |
Of course, we tried to pick the locks, but the spikes and saws and drillheads remained — tantalisingly — out of reach. | 1clean |
We did n’t see Steven ’s interest as strange, well, not that much. | 1clean |
We all had our own interests — drawing, electronics, collecting beer caps — that each appeared obscure to anyone else. | 1clean |
I suppose that, in our own way, we were all collectively strange. | 1clean |
Besides, Steven had some really good stuff: sweets that stained your teeth bright red — well, technically, not your teeth, just the plaque, but the result was often the same. | 1clean |
He had effervescent tablets that turned the canteen drinking water into that exact same pink mixture that the dentist gave you to rinse your mouth out after scraping around inside, and guaranteed to make the other kids splutter and spit it out when the taste slowly percolated through and met the memory of their last checkup. | 1clean |
Then there was the event that became the rite of passage into our group of misfits and outcasts: making a mould of your teeth. | 1clean |
At least, I suppose so. | 1clean |
Your nose filled with what you imagined were fumes from the warm paste. | 1clean |
And you seemed to be suddenly drowning in your own saliva. | 1clean |
Things generally got better when Steven reminded you that you could actually breathe, and swallow, normally. | 1clean |
He watched the second hand trotting round the dial of his watch mouthing the quarters, before poking the setting goo to check its consistency. | 1clean |
Then, when he gave you the nod, you tried to prise your jaws apart. | 1clean |
As the seal around your gums and teeth was pretty solid, you thought it would never come off, as the others giggled at your expressions and grimaces. | 1clean |
Steven jiggled the handle that stuck out beyond your front teeth like some metallic duck ’s bill, turning and twisting it most professionally and murmuring encouragements. | 1clean |
And, then, with an awful sucking slurp, it came free. | 1clean |
Raucous laughter greeted the suggestions of the other body parts that could receive the same treatment. | 1clean |
Steven measured and mixed the plaster of Paris and prepared for the cast by using a bright blue putty to build up the form of the jaw, and shoring up gaps and holes. | 1clean |
But the next time we visited his room we got to marvel at our toothy grins labelled and lined up on the shelf. | 1clean |
It did n’t matter. | 1clean |
Wikinews interviews Christopher Hill, U.S. Republican Party presidential candidate | 1clean |
I took the Oath to our Constitution at 22 years old. | 1clean |
I understood it was an Oath to ALL of our people. | 1clean |
Politicians profess an Oath to this nation but once in office pursue their party agenda and reward their voters. | 1clean |
The Air Force only selected 180 Officers a year from the Academy, Squadron Officer School and ROTC to attend. | 1clean |
I volunteered for that program because I knew I wanted to be a Fighter Pilot and at the "Top of the Spear." | 1clean |
Congress has proven itself ineffective as a body. | 1clean |
The President has that pulpit. | 1clean |
I never wanted to make politics a career. | 1clean |
Why did you choose to run in the Republican Party? | 1clean |
My ties to the Republican party date back to 1979, when I volunteered for Ronald Reagan and his campaign in New Hampshire. | 1clean |
In those days I believed there was a difference in the parties. | 1clean |
I understand third party candidates have no success. | 1clean |
I hope to lead the Republican party in a new direction for working class Americans. | 1clean |
President Obama has an agenda that represents the far left wing of his party. | 1clean |
His use of the Presidency to further this agenda has in many ways been unconstitutional. | 1clean |
We have had too many decades of Ivy League elites and Professors immersed in theory. | 1clean |
I believe it is our responsibility to pass on the same opportunities to future generations that were promised to us. | 1clean |
As President, I intend to keep that promise! | 1clean |
Wikinews interviews Robert Sarvis, Libertarian Party nominee for Governor of Virginia | 1clean |
Attorney Robert Sarvis, the Libertarian Party's nominee for Governor of Virginia, answered five questions submitted via e-mail by accredited Wikinews reporter William Saturn. | 1clean |
Sarvis has garnered double digits in opinion polls for the 2013 Virginia gubernatorial election, an unusual feat for a third party candidate. | 1clean |
The latest Newsmax / Zogby poll from late September placed him at 13 percent, 14 points behind Republican Party nominee Ken Cuccinelli, Virginia's Attorney General, and 19 points behind Democratic Party nominee Terry McAuliffe, the former Democratic National Committee chairman, with 24 percent undecided. | 1clean |
On his campaign website, Sarvis notes he favors parental school choice through student vouchers, simplification of Virginia's Tax Code, US Second Amendment - gun - rights, same-sex marriage, and reform of the state's drug laws. | 1clean |
With Wikinews, Sarvis discusses his background, views on McDonnell's tenure, keys to campaign success, plan to implement his agenda, and the former Virginia governor he most admires. | 1clean |
Because of my academic and professional background, I understand the issues and challenges facing Virginia much better than the other candidates, and I am offering real solutions that can be appreciated across the political spectrum. | 1clean |
McDonnell did well early in his term pushing back against Senate Democrats who wanted huge tax increases in response to major revenue shortfalls during the recession. | 1clean |
More recently, he erred in accepting a transportation bill that had huge flaws and huge tax increases, rather than prioritizing spending and seeking more rational, efficient, decentralized transportation decision-making. | 1clean |
Of course, he showed ethical lapses in judgment. | 1clean |
Voters see the two-party system for the sham it has become. | 1clean |
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