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...four times, he had become known in the company as a womanizer, often with Boeing employees, according to a report in BusinessWeek. (Condit has declined to comment.) The board's choice of Stonecipher as CEO showed either a lack of confidence in homegrown talent--the board surprisingly passed over Alan Mulally, 58, a dynamic and squeaky-clean Midwesterner who heads the commercial-jet unit--or a preference for a hard-nosed, decisive CEO. After meeting as frequently as twice a day to wrestle with the succession, the board broke its own age-limit rule of 65 to give...
DIED. JAMES CARTER, 77, a sharecropper's son who led fellow prisoners at a Mississippi jail in a bluesy work song that four decades later became a Grammy Award--winning hit; in Chicago. One day in 1959 when musical archivist Alan Lomax was at the prison collecting material on a tape recorder, he captured Po' Lazarus, Carter's song about a man who is hunted by a lawman and gunned down. In 2000 the song found a new audience when it appeared on the sound track to the Depression-era film O Brother, Where Art Thou...
...when Alan Chow, founder of Optobionics, began developing the artificial retina that could help some blind people regain sight, bionic technology was mostly considered fantasy. "When we started, what we proposed was such a radically different approach to incurable eye disease that the idea was considered science fiction," says Chow, 50. But with 10 trial operations since 2000, Chow and Optobionics are inching closer to the regulatory nod that would usher their bionic device into the mainstream medical world...
...jumping took place, you can hop into a bobsled with a driver and hit the curves at 80 m.p.h. and 4 Gs (the equivalent of a 40-story drop in less than a minute). "I could feel my contact lenses slipping down my eyes," says track-maintenance-crew member Alan Powell of his first bobsled ride. Or join up for a program at the park's ski jumps, among the highest-altitude ramps in the world. In the summer, ice is traded for wheels on bobsleds, and aerial skiers land in a 750,000-gal. "splash" pool...
...Fans of the first film might be surprised to see Leung co-starring in IA3 along with stalwart police chief Wong (Anthony Wong) and triad boss Sam (Eric Tsang), since all three were dead by the end of the original. But IA3 directors Andrew Lau and Alan Mak solve that potential casting problem by shifting the third film back and forth in time, a few months before the first IA and a few months after its end, when a seemingly free-and-clear Ming rejoins the cops. With Yan, Wong and Sam shimmering across the screen like walking phantoms...