Kristen Lombardi says that as US companies save millions by moving manufacturing jobs to developing countries, it’s America’s unskilled workers who pay the price. The latest victims: immigrant electronics workers in Allston;

In Dan Kennedy's Don't Quote Me, Gilder’s Spectator trades nutty right-wing scandal-mongering for nutty right-wing economics. Plus, women in radio, and freelance blues. Naomi R. Kooker has two foodies collaborate to show that when everything comes together, Italian-American cooking is fine cuisine;

Andrew Weiner interviews the sole employee of the International Memory Training Institute, self-taught expert William Hersey;

In the Phoenix editorial, Fidelity's blood money.

In Out There, Ron Fletcher revisits youth as captured on cassette

In Urban Buy, Amy Sullivan has wet ways to stay cool;

Plus, this just in:

CITY HALL : Paper trail
ACTIVISM: Seeking amnesty
BAD ART : A verse-case scenario
PROTEST : Tax-rebate tantrum
SHARE ALIKE : A civil union
IN MEMORIAM : Chet Atkins, 1924 - 2001
COMMUNITY BONDING : Bridging the gaps
AS THE GLOBE TURNS : A new era begins at 135 Morrissey Boulevard

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