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...golfing terms, Hootie Johnson used too much club. When the chairman of Augusta National Golf Club--host of the prestigious Masters tournament--responded to a letter from Martha Burk, chairwoman of the National Council of Women's Organizations (NCWO), who was inquiring whether the all-male bastion would consider women for membership, his response wasn't a polite "Thank you for your interest, but this is a private club." Nope. Johnson swung from the heels. Gripped it and ripped...
This didn't suit many of the environmental groups involved in the negotiations that believed the market was just a clever way for corporations to skirt environmental regulations. Says Katie McGinty, then chairwoman of Clinton's Council on Environmental Quality: "Practically every utility in the country began to accept the notion that they would face legally binding carbon restrictions. But environmentalists who were opposed to doing anything consensual with industry said what we really should be doing is suing their butts under the current provisions of the Clean Air Act." Result: today the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has no ability...
...China already is the world's largest sports and leisure market with 400 million consumers of sports-related services or products. "In the 1980s, it was trendy for young couples to own a TV set or a refrigerator," says Loni Wang, founder of four Shenzhen fitness clubs and vice chairwoman of China's national Fitness Club Committee, a government group that oversees the development of the sports and leisure industry. "For this new generation, trendy means not only having nice clothes but looking good and being healthy...
...federal Agriculture Ministry until May 23."This new scandal marks the final failure of Ms. Künast's plan to make food production safer with a one-sided policy of fostering organic farming," declared the opposition Christian Democrat Union. Replied Künast, a former Green Party chairwoman in the ruling coalition: "We must find out who knew what and when and failed to pass on the information." Organic farming has surged in the year since the "mad cow" crisis. Bioland, the largest ecological farming association, reported a 15% rise in membership. Still, only about 13,000 of Germany...
...self-doubting teen, a comic-book character who seems a lot like a comic-book reader. Forty years after Spider-Man's birth, Marvel is still selling four different monthly Spider-Man titles that together add up to about 500,000 copies. "Everybody identifies with him," says Amy Pascal, chairwoman of Sony's Columbia Pictures. "Lucky...