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That is a great story about

Oxy Mora — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:12:13 +0000

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That is a great story about Faribo. Can't wait to check out the cedar chest.

I was told by an IT manager here that a good IT engineer in China requires about a $100K salary. Maybe things will drift back. But there is a study by Alan Blinder that 50,000 jobs are vulnerable for outsourcing, and they include upper level jobs.

I do eat margarine now --

Ramona — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 19:06:47 +0000

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I do eat margarine now -- Olivio, developed by Lee Iacocca (at least he takes credit for it on the tub) and endorsed by the Diabetes Foundation. Iacocca's wife died from diabetes complications and this apparently is his contribution. I actually like the taste of it and can live without real butter most of the time.

But I remember when there was a law that prohibited any butter-like coloration in anything but the real thing, so there was a little red button in the otherwise white bag of margarine (or "oleo" as we called it then) and we had to knead it until the dye in the button was distributed throughout. It looked and tasted as bad as you might imagine.

Such minor problems to worry about back then. Those were the days...

The news about the Saturn

Ramona — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:57:50 +0000

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The news about the Saturn plant in Tennessee is encouraging. I hope it's a trend. I'm disappointed that the union had to negotiate a second tier wage that's about half of what they were getting before, but when you're competing with China and elsewhere, reality rears its ugly little head. It's a start.

The link to the space station video doesn't say much, but someone in the comment section said it did run north to south along the western edge of California, Mexico and into Central America.

Oh please do not get me on

Richard Day — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:43:39 +0000

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Oh please do not get me on this margarine thing.

The fake coloring of margarine was the big issue in Minnesota when I was a kid along with fluoridation and Sunday closing laws and daylight savings time...

Weird.

And I certainly love quaint stories of plants--even smaller ones--reopening!

It looks like they're going

Michael Wolraich — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 16:41:33 +0000

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It looks like they're going to re-open the old Saturn plant too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/business/gms-former-saturn-plant-in-sp...

PS What do you think was the orientation of that space flyover? It looked to me as if the station were going north-south from California to Central America. I think that I could make out Baja, the Yucatan, and isthmus of Panama before the sun rises in the southeast.