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...Rauscher, now a consultant on shareholder-advocacy issues, is convinced that the approach works--even though companies seldom admit it. "There are a lot of good companies out there," he says. "They just have some things we call 'warts' that need to be removed." Aquinas is prepared to remove them, one by one. --By G. Jeffrey MacDonald
...too many parents of overweight kids are learning--the most fattening foods are often the most comforting, conjuring up memories of sweet treats and celebrations. That's why there was so much interest last week in a report out of the University of California, Irvine that suggests a new approach to thinking about food: brainwashing...
...describes Rice's transition from the White House to the State Department as "liberating." "She now has a department to manage. She has duties to perform," says former Secretary of State George Shultz, one of her mentors. "That's what she really enjoys and likes." Rice's forward-leaning approach leaves little space for formalities. She doesn't e-mail because it is impersonal and indelible, communicating mainly through person-to-person calls. If she has a bone to pick with a U.S. or foreign official, she will order everyone out of the room and remonstrate in private...
...return repeated requests for comment this week. But in a statement last week, Rizvi called the winning initiatives—culled from an initial applicant pool of over 1,000—“ground-breaking efforts” that “[take] a creative approach to a significant problem” in bureaucracy and administration...
...backpedaling in the new arrangement?if not something worse, like a protection of coal industries in Australia, the U.S., China and India. Paul Epstein, associate director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, says he sees a single advantage to the new approach: that the Bush Administration is finally acknowledging that global warming is real and that fossil fuels play a role. "But this dual pact approach is not helpful," he says. "The entire world community needs to come together on this issue. The pattern of climate instability we're seeing now is what...