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Sitting in the Peruvian airport, listening to the avid beliefs of one, intrepid Colombian woman, I was embarrassed to admit my own nation advocated ruthless military aid as a "solution" to a much more complicated problem of poverty and political beliefs. Rather than attacking the narco-traffickers, drug lords and guerillas, the United States' policy will jeopardize the lives of thousands of already impoverished and entirely innocent people...
...reason may be genuine environmental concern. Ford's new chairman, William Clay Ford Jr., an avid fly fisherman and vegetarian, has vowed to make the company a better corporate citizen. Stung by attacks on his new Excursion--a 12.5-m.p.g. guzzler dubbed "Ford Valdez" by critics--he has expressed fears that auto companies could be scorned like tobacco companies if they don't clean up their act. Similarly, GM has sought to position itself as the greenest car company, beginning in 1996 when it launched the nation's first modern, mass-produced electric car, the EV-1. But both companies...
PAULINE (ROBINSON) PIERCE 1896-1949 An avid gardener, she died in an accident when her husband, trying to prevent coffee from spilling on her dress, lost control...
Christian Marty was a fighter. The drive that pushed him to the top of the piloting profession also made him an avid sportsman who would hang glide over volcano craters, ski the most difficult slaloms and who, in 1982, became the first Frenchman ever to windsurf across the Atlantic. "In everything he did, he always wanted to prove to himself that he was as good as the best," says Claude Bouvier-Muller, 71, a retired Air France pilot and a close friend. "Yet he never bragged. It was a personal challenge...
That was much more like the new Kim the CIA sometimes hears about, a man who is reportedly an avid watcher of CNN and at least a onetime surfer of the Internet. On a trip to Beijing last month, he told his hosts he was cutting back on his drinking. Kim's "calculated move" to change his image, says Koh Yu Hwan, a North Korean expert at Dongguk University in Seoul, was "a stunning success...