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...pair of wings, she has come down with a case of the Neomites, a common affliction in the mythical online world of Neopia. The Neopian pharmacy sometimes stocks a cure, but it's pricey, costing about 330 Neopoints. What's Chirita's owner, Wendy Mendoza, 10, of Atlanta, to do? One way to rack up the points would be to play any of the 110 free games on Neopets.com trying activities like bumper cars or chemistry for beginners. Then again, Wendy could also score by hunting for secret images in the site's virtual McDonald's, trying her hand...
Nardelli's moves to introduce elements of GE's numbers-oriented processes, along with a new slate of top executives, ruffled feathers in Atlanta's clubby business community. "No question about it," says ex-CEO Blank, who is still active with Home Depot's charitable work in Atlanta. "There was a shift in orientation and culture. Some felt comfortable with that, some didn't." Blank says Nardelli's appointment was the first real management change in a company that was still essentially run like a family business. Taylor says Nardelli's appointment was "as if my mother had come home...
When Nardelli moved with his wife and four children from upstate New York to Home Depot's Atlanta headquarters, the home-improvement retailer was going through a rough patch of its own. Its co-founder and second CEO, Arthur Blank, was under pressure to leave; the company had added stores more quickly than it could properly manage, and comparable-store sales, the crucial measure of a retail chain's organic growth through existing stores, had been declining for eight quarters. Home Depot was expanding so quickly that many executives saw nothing wrong. "You had people who were enormously proud...
...many ways, Nardelli has finally come into his own. Local businesspeople say he has joined the ranks of Atlanta's insiders, notably when he was elected to Coca-Cola's board of directors in 2002. Though Coke's board has been criticized after management missteps, it is still the city's corporate crown jewel. "Among Bob's peers it was an important recognition," Blank says. Nardelli was host to about 200 prominent conservatives last month at a $3.2 million fund raiser for President Bush in his 10-bedroom mansion...
...couple of tiny lumps around her collarbone. She thought they were calcium deposits. She was wrong. Jacobs had advanced lung cancer that had already spread to her lymph nodes. Because the tumors had infiltrated healthy tissue, surgery was not an option. "It was devastating," says the teacher, 56, from Atlanta. "I never smoked, my husband never smoked, and nobody in my immediate family had ever had cancer...