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Taproot tailors the volunteer efforts of its business experts to fit their lives. Each volunteer agrees to work five hours a week on a five-month project with a five-member team, each providing pro bono the same service that he provides for paying clients. Taproot member Candice Laxton, 54, a creative director in Menlo Park, Calif., helped produce a brochure for SAVE (Safe Alternatives to Violent Environments), an advocacy group for abused women. Laxton is typical of many boomers who, in earlier years, put some of their youthful activism on hold while establishing careers and families...
...head of the Federal Public Defender's Office in Las Cruces, N.M., may have found his answer when he agreed to a stint for the International Senior Lawyers Project, which uses experienced attorneys to promote the rule of law around the world. After Kinney spent three months (pro bono, but with expenses paid) setting up Bulgaria's first public defender's office and a month in Mongolia on a similar mission, his vision for retirement was transformed. He and his wife sold their intended retirement haven, a house in Honduras. Now he hopes to move to Budapest after retirement...
...Lufthansa's new private-jet service (www.lufthansa-private-jet.com) is operated by NetJets, which pioneered fractional ownership of business aircraft in 1986, and counts among its 5,000 shareholders the likes of Bono and Madonna. The service enables first-class passengers flying into Lufthansa's Frankfurt and Munich hubs to connect onward to more than 1,000 European airports. Flights can be booked with as little as 24 hours' notice, with pricing based on flight time and the type of aircraft used. Onboard, guests enjoy personalized catering and business necessities like data ports and satellite phones. Best of all, the entire experience...
...court well-heeled customers, it's played another ace: access to Europe's largest fleet of private jets. Lufthansa's new private-jet service (www.lufthansa-private-jet.com) is operated by NetJets, which pioneered fractional ownership of business aircraft in 1986, and counts among its 5,000 shareholders the likes of Bono and Madonna. The service enables first-class passengers flying into Lufthansa's Frankfurt and Munich hubs to connect onward to more than 1,000 European airports. Flights can be booked with as little as 24 hours' notice, with pricing based on flight time and the type of aircraft used. Onboard, guests...
RUSH LIMBAUGH believes he belongs on a new list of men's men even more than its current occupants Bono, Bill Clinton and George Clooney. The authors of the marketing book The Future of Men have coined a new buzz word for males who embrace their masculinity--"übersexuals"--and have compiled a list of the world's best examples of these macho specimens. "Understanding the finer things, confident, rather go out with the guys for dinner, doesn't care what people think? Man, that's me," Limbaugh said on his radio talk show. "This is what men were before...