At the age of35, Linda Arroz made a major career change: from a working on the assembly line at a General Motors plant as a spot-welder to an image consultant in the corporate and fashion worlds.

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Some bacteria, it turned out, produce polyketides in an assembly-line fashion in much the same way that General Motors produces cars.

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Chaplin's 1936 film captures our frantic effort to keep up with the assembly line--and to stay ahead of work in general.

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Dirk Bowman watches with pride as we walk along an assembly line, while workers tweak and twiddle with lines of cylindrical water heaters at this General Electric plant in Louisville, Kentucky.

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