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Americans have a long history of meddling with the Mississippi and its delta. Clifford Smith, a civil engineer from the delta city of Houma, La., paints it as a story of progress. "What we have done is allow the Mississippi valley to become the most productive in the world," he says. "One of the major reasons that we are the most powerful country in the world is because of what we've done to control flooding and navigation on the Mississippi...
...Terrebonne native, Clifford Smith is skeptical about Gagliano's plan, but he believes that the extraordinary situation may call for rethinking where some people live. "I'm a landowner down there, so I'm not wild about eminent domain, but this was a biblical event we suffered," he says. "To solve this in the future, we're going to have to compromise...
...enough. They all quickly realized that native dishes had to be re-created in larger-than-life versions to command top dollar. Says Baum: "Above a certain price, the public wants to see evidence of skill, and dishes they do not think they can make at home." Adds Barbara Clifford, the Texas-born chef partner in Manhattan's Yellow Rose Cafe: "My mother made home-fried potatoes swimming in oil. That's a little too down-home...
...Clifford can't rest on his laurels. While Symbian has excelled in the market for business users, it has not done as well with consumer phones, notes Ovum analyst Tony Cripps in London. And Microsoft is gaining ground, according to Nomura security analyst Richard Windsor, who predicts 25.8 million Microsoft users by 2007, behind Symbian's 54.3 million. Clifford, 45, is fazed less by Microsoft and by other mobile operating systems like Linux and Palmsource's PalmOS than by another force: his target customers. If he can get more handset vendors to adopt Symbian technology and can persuade his existing...
...because it has strong ties to the mobile industry. It's owned by Nokia, Ericsson, Sony Ericsson, Panasonic, Siemens and Samsung. But keeping Symbian's owners in harmony is tough. Flare-ups are common among companies concerned that Nokia's 48% stake in Symbian gives it too much say. Clifford has peacemaking experience. He ran the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, where he balanced the clashing interests of doctors, patients, university and government. Now he will have to broker peace with one hand while fighting competitors like Microsoft and Linux with the other. A new wrinkle appeared the day after Clifford took...