N&O Career Articles

In Toyota City, Japan, residents take failures to heart

For 31 years, Genichi Miyagawa has been a soldier behind enemy lines: He sells Suzuki automobiles in the corporate heart of Toyota territory.

Updated: Mar. 5, 2010 8:29 PM | Full Story

A stink in California over converting cow manure to electricity

STANISLAUS COUNTY, Calif. - Central California is home to nearly 1.6 million dairy cows and their manure - up to 192 million pounds per day. It's a mountain of waste and a potential environmental hazard.

Updated: Mar. 3, 2010 7:09 PM | Full Story

Protecting forest could limit climate change, but residents have no other livelihood

An hour outside Manaus, the Amazon's biggest city, the blackened remains of a virgin forest smolder. Chain saws whine. And Jonas Mendes tosses logs, one after another, into his kiln.

Updated: Mar. 1, 2010 7:02 PM | Full Story

Texas dairy reaps benefits of raw milk movement

Like most any mom with young children, Iliana Cantavella is used to making a run for a gallon of milk.

Updated: Feb. 25, 2010 8:08 AM | Full Story

9 digits become a life changer; woman hoping for a tax refund finds out she's become the victim of identity theft

JuWanda Harris spent the last year rising before the sun to work two jobs, using the money to support her brother and sister and help her parents with everything from gas bills to toothpaste.

Updated: Feb. 26, 2010 3:08 AM | Full Story