Managers at Ford Motor Co. 's Michigan Truck plant will start collecting weekly data to monitor rest room breaks, according to the memo, distributed to workers at the plant this week. Ford says workers taking longer breaks are slowing down production.

A man who repeatedly tossed bottles out of his apartment window in Hong Kong is ordered to leave, becoming the first tenant evicted under a new government method to deter litter bugs. Yuen Kin-man previously spent four months in jail for throwing bottles from his 25th-floor apartment. Housing official Lau Kai-hung says Kin-man was given one month to move out of his subsidized apartment before he is evicted by force. A government statement says Yuen has also been caught twice dumping domestic waste.

Federal officials have begun searching trees near an Air Force base in Northern California for a destructive Asian beetle officials believe arrived last month in a shipment of tiles from China. Two Asian longhorned beetles were found outside a privately-operated warehouse at the former McClellan Air Force Base outside Sacramento. A team of U. S. Forest Service smokejumpers, firefighters trained in parachuting into forest fires, have been searching for traces of the insects in trees near the site since Monday.