Daily Mail
Boy, 7, found hanged from bunk bed after 'he was bullied at school'
The child's sister discovered him unconscious at their home in Detroit, Michigan and called 911 around 5.30pm yesterday. Emergency responders performed CPR on the boy before he was take to Henry Ford Hospital where he later died.
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Daily Mail
From concept to completion: McLaren lifts lid on state-of-the-art factory for new £170,000 supercar - and see how it compares to Henry T Ford's production line of 1912
The factory in Woking is a far cry from the dawn of the car industry, when Henry Ford laboured to perfect his methods in Trafford Park, Manchester, exactly 100 years ago.
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ElPais
“Borges me hizo ver las posibilidades de la lengua española”
Un recuerdo a la conferencia que Carlos Fuentes impartió en la universidad estadounidense de Brown
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Huffington Post
Detroit Police Shoot 72-Year-Old Man Allegedly Carrying A Knife
Detroit Police officers shot an elderly man three times Monday night on Detroit's west side, after he charged at them with a knife, they allege.Officers were responding to a call on the 8600 block of Ohio involving a car parked in the wrong driveway. The vehicle belonged to the next-door neighbor. When officers knocked on the front door of the neighboring house, they say an older white male cha...
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Wired
Ford + TechShop: Getting Employees to Tinker
Before he invented the assembly line, Henry Ford built his first prototype on a workbench in a shed. More than a century later, his company has partnered with TechShop, Detroit, the 21st century equivalent of that shed, with a bold program to ignite innovation in the company.
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politico
White House photog captures Obama's Rosa Parks moment
White House photo
President Barack Obama took time out on Wednesday to sit in the bus where Rosa Parks made her famous stand against segregation.
"I just sat in there for a moment and pondered the courage and tenacity that is part of our very recent history but is also part of that long line of folks who sometimes are nameless, oftentimes didn't make the history books, but who constantly insis...
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science blogs
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@J.Kuhn
Die Ford Anekdote kenn ich anders.:
AN APOCRYPHAL tale is told about Henry Ford II showing Walter Reuther, the veteran leader of the United Automobile Workers, around a newly automated car plant. “Walter, how are you going to get those robots to pay your union dues,” gibed the boss of Ford Motor Company. Without skipping a beat, Reuther replied, “Henry, how are you going to get them...
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ElPais
¿Y la reforma empresarial?
Los empresarios españoles están encantados con la nueva reforma laboral. Ahora les costará menos despedir, podrán bajar sueldos sin negociar nada e incluso tener a gente un año trabajando y echarla sin indemnización. Todo eso les ahorrará una pasta y reducirá sus costes laborales.
Parece que la mayoría es incapaz de ver en sus trabajadores algo más que mano de obra inevitable, pero molesta y c...
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American Scientist
From Model T to Prius: 13 Big Moments in Fuel Efficiency History
1908: Henry Ford introduces the Model T. The gasoline-powered car enjoys up to 21 miles per
gallon (just six m.p.g. fewer than the average new vehicle sold today)...from the Christian Science Monitor
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Daily Mail
Martin O'Neill tells Sunderland side to look at the bigger picture in his first Tyne-Wear derby
Martin O'Neill will preface his Tyne-Wear derby debut today by urging his players to remember the immortal
phrase of the late Henry Ford: 'History is more or less bunk'.
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physorg
Study looks at patients' decision-making in asymptomatic carotid stenosis
A paper from Rhode Island Hospital and Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit examines whether different presentation formats, presenter characteristics, and patient characteristics affect decision-making for patients requiring treatment for asymptomatic carotid stenosis. Based on the study, the researchers concluded that how the treatment options are presented to a patient strongly impacts patients' d...
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Le Monde Diplomatique
Le rêve amazonien de Henry Ford
Au début du XXe siècle, l'industriel américain Henry Ford impose sa vision du monde à la construction automobile, avec l'ambition d'étendre « rationalisation » et « standardisation » à toutes les activités humaines. En créant Fordlandia, au cœur de l'Amazonie, il met son rêve en pratique. / Brésil, (...)
/ Brésil, États-Unis, Automobile, Capitalisme, Entreprise, Histoire, Industrie, Pauvreté, ...
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sueddeutsche
Apple-Firmenkultur: Mehr Krupp als Silicon Valley
Ein neues Buch liefert tiefe Einblicke in die Apple-Unternehmenskultur - und zeigt, dass Kontrolle und Geheimhaltung nicht nur nach außen, sondern auch im Unternehmen selbst entscheidende Faktoren sind. Steve Jobs' Führungsphilosophie erinnert damit mehr an Alfred Krupp und Henry Ford, als an den Geist des Silicon Valley.
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL
The diagnosis for Research In Motion: acute Founderitis
When RIM's brash co-CEOs fired themselves this week, they became part of a rich tradition of success-fuelled failure. It's one that goes at least as far back as Henry Ford, discovers
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The New Yorker
Books: “The Prague Cemetery” review.
This conspiracy-laden historical potboiler is told primarily through diary entries by a master forger and the secret author of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion—an anti-Semitic document that was espoused by both Hitler and Henry Ford. There’s plenty of colorful scenery—Italy . . . (Subscription required.)
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Irish Times
Henry Ford's great grandson gets Irish link made official
HENRY FORD, the inventor of the automobile, famously said: “Any customer can have a car painted any colour he wants, so long as it is black”. But there was a flash of green about the Ford Motor Company yesterday as Henry’s great grandson, William Clay Ford Jr, was inducted into the Irish America Hall of Fame and awarded a certificate of Irish heritage, signed by Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore, at the M...
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TechCrunch
Keen On… Walter Isaacson: Assessing Steve Jobs’ Historic Influence
At the beginning of his rich and very fair biography of Steve Jobs, Walter Isaacson notes that Steve himself "found the endeavor of assessing historic influence fascinating." So when Isaacson came into the San Francisco TechCrunchTV studio earlier this week, I asked him for his personal assessment of Steve Jobs' historic influence. Including Jobs in a pantheon of business icons such as Thomas E...
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Los Angeles Times
Consumer Confidential: Highest minimum wage, generational income
Here's your rainy-days-and-Mondays Monday roundup of consumer news from around the Web:
--Our friends up north in San Francisco are making history with the first minimum wage to top $10 an hour. Come New Year's Day, the city's hourly wage for its lowest-paid workers will hit $10.24, more than $2 above the California minimum wage and nearly $3 more than the working wage set by the federal govern...
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Mashable
Marketing Automation Is the Next Cold Calling [SPONSORED]
This post is brought to you by HubSpot, an inbound marketing software company based in Cambridge, MA, that makes a full platform of marketing so…
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