Word: cypresses
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...plentifully as fish, and the resistable charms of the city of Grosseto. But one traveler was seduced into stopping and putting down new roots in the sandy soil nearby. Alain Ducasse, the first chef ever to win three Michelin stars for two restaurants simultaneously, followed an avenue of cypress and Tuscan pines through vineyards and olive groves and found, at the end of it, a chunky 19th century palazzo built as a hunting lodge for Leopold II, the last Grand Duke of Tuscany. In partnership with Vittorio Moretti, a building magnate and wine producer, the Frenchman transformed the ducal folly...
...DIED. Earl Woods, 74, former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel in Vietnam and father of golfer Tiger Woods; in Cypress, California. He had his son swinging clubs as a toddler and, after failing to persuade the boy to pursue other interests, became his trainer and devoted champion, once calling Tiger the "chosen one." Yet the close bond between the two?Tiger called him "an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend"?was unmistakable. After Tiger's Masters win in 1997?the first for a black player?he and his father embraced on the 18th green, a moment that became...
DIED. Earl Woods, 74, former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel in Vietnam and father of golfer Tiger Woods; of prostate cancer; in Cypress, Calif. He had his son swinging clubs as a toddler and, after failing to persuade the boy to pursue other interests, became his trainer and devoted champion, once calling Tiger the "chosen one." The close bond between the two--Tiger called him "an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend"--was unmistakable. After Tiger's Masters win in 1997--the first by a black player--he and his father embraced on the 18th green, a moment that...
...October issue of Reason magazine. Rodgers assailed the CSR-imbued philosophy that guides Whole Foods, calling it similar to those of Karl Marx and Ralph Nader. Mackey, an avowed libertarian, replied that his approach has brought a lot more wealth for Whole Foods' investors than the one embraced at Cypress, which, he noted, has struggled to be profitable. Indeed, though Cypress made a small profit in 2004, it booked losses in the three previous years...
...Cypress's Rodgers, all this talk about purpose higher than profit also seems like a Trojan horse for the eventual piling on of top-down government controls on commerce. The virtues touted by CSR, in his opinion, come just as easily if markets are left to run freely. Rodgers points to the initial public offering last month of Cypress's solar-power subsidiary, SunPower, and asserts that investors chipped in not to make an environmental statement but because they believe clean solar power is a potentially profitable enterprise. He is running a business, he notes, whose motivation is profit alone...