1 Seriously ill people need to tell stories: to their doctors, to their family, to their friends, to themselves. This article is both an illness narrative and an exploration of illness, narrative, recovery and critical disability studies. Telling illness narratives is a valuable means of recovery when the body becomes what the individual never expected it would—damaged. Narrative is vital, as t...

This note follows an early work by Newell and Daganzo which suggests a wedge-like zone to divide a service area for freight delivery. Current literature has been largely using the zone of a fixed shape determined solely by demand density. We find that, given the same demand density, the shape of zones could vary significantly in order to better balance local and line haul truck delivery costs w...

We test the hypothesis that in an economic recovery, unionization negatively affects job creation. We examine state-level job growth following two recent recessions, those with troughs in November 1982 and March 1991. In the five years following the troughs, we assess whether variations across states in union membership and right-to-work laws affect the rate of job growth. We find evidence that...

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Time waste differs from material waste in that there can be no salvage.