French Workers Take Caterpillar Bosses Hostage

As construction giant Caterpillar announces 700 more layoffs at its Grenoble factory, French workers held office bosses hostage. This is the third time that this has happened this month. Previous incidents occurred at 3M and Sony. In both other cases,  management was...

Bus Crash in French Alps Kills 26

Religious pilgrims on their way to the Notre-Dame de la Salette were met with disaster when their bus plunged from a cliff in the French Alps. "Twenty-six Polish pilgrims died when their coach crashed off a mountain road at a notorious accident black spot in the French Alps...

Heatwave on the top of the world

Yesterday, I wrote about a new study showing the effects of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Today, in my inbox through Google Alerts, came an article about a study by Chinese glaciologists in 2001 and 2002...

At Xerox, It's Here Today ... Gone Tomorrow! :: MAXINE

"Just when you begin to think that paper documents are about to be a thing of the past ... "Everything is going digital!" ... Xerox reveals that it still is applying R&D assets on hardcopy processes. That's right,...

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