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...hours than ever, and it is especially challenging to parent creatively and well when you're strung out and exhausted. The extended-family structure that once shared the burdens and reinforced values has frayed. Nothing breeds wretched excess like divorced parents competing with each other and feeling guilty to boot. It's not an option, as it once was, to let kids roam free outside after school, bike over to a friend's house, hang out with cousins or grandparents. The streets are not safe and the family is scattered, so kids are often left alone, inside, with...
...whose own record for running a clean ship is pretty much unblemished. Mack was even rumored to be on the short list to succeed Arthur Levitt as head of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He's known for giving egocentric bankers--Quattrone while at Morgan Stanley, for one--the boot rather than caving to princely demands...
...dicey. Since the mid-'90s, a growing number of companies have looked to the success of Jack Welch with General Electric to guide them through this psychologically ambiguous terrain. GE's mandate from the top is that high performers--even prodigies--who unrepentantly trash company values are given the boot...
...here's the plan. As soon as you hear the word "Kyoto," stand up, and with a big goofy grin on your face, start banging on the table with your cowboy boot. That'll get their attention...
...wood chips and chunks are up almost 50% too. About 75% of American households own a barbecue, and more than half of them are used all year. The best-selling cookbook in America at the moment is How to Grill by Steven Raichlen, who has started a Barbecue Boot Camp after being besieged for grilling tips. High-end kitchen appliance companies like Jenn-Air and Viking have moved into the al fresco business, and a flurry of new releases have come from mass players like Coleman and Char-Broil. There are more devices on which to burn meat than ever...