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Home Depot is the biggest target yet for RAN, which has a staff of 25 and a budget of $2 million. But Suzanne Apple, Home Depot's community-affairs director, says the activists are expecting too much, too fast. "We are committed to the environment," she says. "We have been encouraging our vendors to tell us the source of their lumber. But we have 5,000 suppliers and over 50,000 products. It doesn't happen overnight." Surely not. But if it happens at all, asserts the combative Hayes, it will be because Home Depot and other companies get "smacked...
...pigeon. Meanwhile, you've got to learn your own playbook, which looks like the manual to the space shuttle, and know exactly what 22 guys are doing at all times when the only thing you can be sure of is that four of them, who happen to be the biggest and ugliest, are eager to tear your head...
...makes sense that the solution to the image problem came from the biggest fur producer in the world: Saga Furs of Scandinavia, the joint marketing and public relations organization of the fur farmers of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Scandinavia provides more than half the world's fur pelts. Ten years ago, Saga opened its International Design Center. Since then it has been inviting established designers as well as hot young ones to an all-expenses-paid five-day getaway at its turn-of-the-century thatched mansion in the green hills and yellow fields of Sandbjerg, north of Copenhagen...
...professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, first proposed the theory in his book Frames of Mind, which was published in 1983. Since then, Gardner's ideas have received widespread attention and acceptance among parents and have been eagerly embraced by teachers. "Multiple intelligences is clearly the biggest thing right now," says Jim Bellanca, president of a teacher-training company called SkyLight Publishing and Training. Bellanca says that since 1992, SkyLight has provided training in MI to some 30,000 teachers and school administrators...
...working at once, one shooting the dramatic sequences and the other shooting the action. The latter crew consists of Tong and several other veterans of the Hong Kong film industry. Hung helps stage the fights, performs all his stunts and appears in the dramatic scenes. Still, he says, "the biggest challenge for me is English." Before the show went into production, he took an eight-hour-a-day Berlitz course for about three months...