Word: baron
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...book, Humes profiles an assortment of eco-barons, from businessmen to inventors, and discovers that what binds them is, he says, a "clear view of the insanity attached to the way we live." Doug Tompkins, who founded the clothing line Esprit - and then left it behind for conservation in the 1990s while it was still wildly successful - is the quintessential eco-baron and the source of Hume's best writing. Tompkins was always an outdoor adventurer - even while heading up Esprit, he would regularly disappear for months-long trips to the forests of South America - so when he burned...
...York City can accommodate residents, businesses and tourists somewhere Paris can't: high in the air, in skyscrapers. One of the elements that make Paris so appealing in the first place is the well-preserved state of the city's elegant buildings and neighborhoods (a product of Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann's ambitious redevelopment of the city in the mid-1800s). These places have long been protected by strict zoning laws prohibiting high-rises and imposing harmony on new buildings through regulation...
...vigorously defend extradition as narco-traffickers now try to rig the system in more subtle ways. Last year, Guillermo Valencia Cossio, chief government prosecutor for Medellín and the surrounding Antioquia state - and brother of Colombia's Justice Minister - was indicted for allegedly collaborating with a powerful drug baron. He was charged with conspiring with a drug baron and is under house arrest...
Cohen, Sacha Baron • Golden Globes audience is grimly unamused by amusing mocking of Madonna, Charlie Sheen and Victoria Beckham...
...debate comes on the heels of the announcement of Britain's first fetus screened for the breast-cancer gene, BRCA-1, which sparked a wider debate over "designer babies" - a discussion that even Baron-Cohen's supporters say is premature when it comes to autism. "We are a long way from unlocking the mysteries of autism in a way that could give us those abilities," says Adams. "Saying someone has autism is like saying someone has a fever; they have a set of symptoms, but we don't know yet what could be the cause or causes." If such...