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...until recently, Gates, who has three children ages 4 to 11, avoided the public spotlight, but that's begun to change. This year both she and her husband plan to take a visible role in making education a bigger issue in the 2008 election. "Getting it on the Presidential agenda is critical," she explains...
Headlines and official statements from the U.S. hailed Sunday's election of the "pro-American" Nicolas Sarkozy as France's new President, painting him as healer-elect of the trans-Atlantic friendship damaged by the Iraq war. Even the French themselves have begun to see him as a harbinger of a closer relationship with the U.S. But while the new President's foreign policy will feature some differences from that of his predecessor - even some surprises - analysts have poured cold water on the idea that in foreign policy, Sarkozy will be the "anti-Chirac...
Grosso said that she had begun thinking about the need to better facilitate certain summer internships two years...
...worrying news is that over the past several months, China in particular has begun to replace the U.S. as the main obstacle to stronger climate-change action. During the IPCC negotiations that took place this week in Bangkok, Chinese delegates - with the support of India and other developing nations - tried to tone down the report, pushing to remove the most ambitious possible targets for future carbon-emissions levels. That move failed, but it's unlikely to be the last time China and India drag their feet on climate change. And as long as those two nations send out signals that...
...repositioning the company as a focused solutions provider, he split with his predecessor and broke the back of the traditional German business culture that ruled Siemens. Von Pierer, CEO from 1992 to 2005, had begun to transform the company from a sprawling bureaucracy that largely lived off fat contracts from Germany's state- owned firms into a global operator. He rationalized Siemens' many disparate businesses into a group of 13--such as automation, power generation, medical technology and telecommunications. By the end of last year, Siemens employed 475,000 people in 190 countries and generated 81% of its sales outside...