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...care about their children's and grandchildren's future? If successful, smart people are not prepared to change the way they live, then what hope have we got? Why do car companies keep producing gas-guzzling polluters? Why don't governments ban the production of large automobile engines? Doug Austin Cape Town Please do not advise us to "be worried." We can't halt global warming if we act like parents waiting up for a teenager out past curfew. We have to be proactive. We must make radical changes in the way we live, not just wring our hands while...
...Whole Foods store in Austin, Texas, for instance, delight appears around one corner in the form of a secret "beer cave," a frosty grotto stocked floor to ceiling with unusual beers from all over the world. Customers can sample and even drink them as they shop. In Columbus, Ohio, delight materializes as 16 types of fresh heirloom eggs, their rainbow of colors displayed in a row of baskets so they can be chosen individually...
Founded in Austin in 1980 by vegan-hippie John Mackey as a natural and organic supermarket (one of fewer than half a dozen in the nation at the time) with a staff of 19, Whole Foods has grown to encompass 181 stores in 30 states, the District of Columbia, Canada and Britain, with 40,000 employees and 64 more stores in development. Annual sales reached $4.7 billion in 2004, and the company aims to arrive at $12 billion by 2010. Its stock price has shot up 62% in the past year, and same-store sales have increased 13% for three...
...Buddha. He's incredibly wise and a brilliant retailer," the California-based Robb says about Gallo. "Walter's much more of a risk taker and always two or three steps ahead. And he's a brilliant store designer," the Boston-based Gallo says of Robb, who designed the Austin flagship, among other stores...
...Kaplan, the new third Deputy Chief of Staff, was Bolten?s deputy in the policy shop in Austin during the President?s first national campaign, worked in the Chief of Staff?s office when Bolten was one of the two deputies in the first term, and was most recently his deputy at the Office of Management and Budget. Kaplan, who has two Harvard degrees, was an artillery officer in the Marine Corps and clerked for Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, was scheduled to return today from his honeymoon. Another honeymoon is probably something the President would like as well...