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...edge is in Asia. Powerful handheld computers with features such as wi-fi may be new to the U.S., but they've been available in other countries for a while. The rest of the world has already chosen the platform of the future, and it's Symbian. Regan Coleman, AUSTIN, TEXAS...
Long, long ago--in what they are pretty sure was the 1974-75 school year--John Mackey and Kip Tindell shared a house with three other students near the University of Texas campus in Austin. They played a lot of poker--Tindell always won--but never became particularly close. After that year, they drifted out of touch...
Their lives, though, continued along parallel paths. Both men dropped out after long undergraduate careers ("I crammed a four-year program into about eight years," Tindell jokes). Then, in 1978, both started businesses: Mackey, with his then girlfriend, opened a health-food store in Austin; Tindell, with a guy he had worked with at Montgomery Ward, opened a store in Dallas that sold containers...
...reconnected--partly to bask in the shared joys of being rich former slackers ("You have a Frisbee golf course on your ranch too?!?") but mainly to discuss the approach they say has enabled their success. I got to sit in on such a chat at Whole Foods' headquarters in Austin. (A transcript is at time.com/mackeytindell....
...USDA's Master Gardener Program, which involves nearly 90,000 volunteers in all 50 states who educate and assist the public with horticulture projects, is getting longer every year, says Bill Hoffman, National Program Leader for Agriculture Homeland Security. Even urban dwellers are returning to the land; in Austin, Texas, for example, the wait for community gardens is three years...