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...shooting at someone or something. All that live video sent the stirring message that the planes were unleashing hell, Saddam's palaces were burning, and the caissons were rolling along. But in the first days of the war, it didn't show us what was behind those telegenic, orange cotton-candy fireballs: dead Iraqi soldiers and civilians...
...also means he can follow his environmental convictions, even if that weighs on earnings temporarily. For example, the company has stopped selling products made of tropical wood and has undertaken a comprehensive--and costly--effort to ensure that many of the garments it sells are made of organically grown cotton (only natural fertilizers are used) or other environmentally correct materials. "I found it important to do this," Otto says, and since the family owns 85% of the company, there's nothing to stop...
...devout jihadi. With his easy smile and placid eyes, he had a reputation as a charmer and a ladies' man. When Yousef and Mohammed weren't plotting destruction together in Manila, they were partying, say Philippine intelligence agents. Mohammed took up with a bar girl he met at the Cotton Candy Club. Later he hired a helicopter and pilot to impress a female dentist he was courting. Yousef and Mohammed took their girlfriends scuba diving at beach resorts, but Mohammed remained an enigma even to the women he dated. None suspected that Mohammed, who passed himself off as a Saudi...
...example, he said, while Mississippi draws its education funds from taxes on sales of catfish and cotton, Washington state—where thousands of students receive complimentary laptop computers—draws its dollars for schools from tax revenue from Microsoft and Boeing...
...self-confident. Orphaned at an early age, as a teenager he worked as a seamster in a garment shop. By 19, he owned it. A workaholic of modest tastes, he began manufacturing jeans when Turkey started liberalizing its economy in the 1980s, capitalizing on top-quality Turkish cotton and competitive labor costs to produce for brands like Lee and Wrangler. "Eventually I decided we had learned this business and were ready to do it ourselves," he says. In 1991, Mavi, which means blue in Turkish, was born. It took some foresight to predict that jeans would take off in this...