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...recruiting in Russia, where good workers are shivering and unemployed. Or think about Silicon Valley, where two jobs await every qualified applicant and an astonishing 18,000 technical and managerial slots remain unfilled. If you always wanted to be in show business, here's your big chance: booming Disney World and Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, will together add more than 30,000 jobs, from top management to ticket takers, over the next three years. "I've got opportunity everywhere," says John Sprouls, vice president for human resources at Universal Studios...
...favorite story is about the 1995 excursion to China that Bill and Melinda organized for seven couples. "For part of the trip we stayed on a ship in the Yangtze with five decks that normally accommodates hundreds of people," he says with the glee of a kid describing Walt Disney World. "Each evening Melinda arranged different activities." There was karaoke singing in the ship's ballroom, performances of quickie versions of Shakespeare plays, "and a trivia quiz on such things as how many meals we'd eaten, with prizes that Melinda and Bill handed out." When relaxed, Buffett says, Gates...
...hired a New York rare-books dealer to stock the library for him. His current reading is eclectic. "On a recent trip to Italy," he says, "I took the new Stalin biography, a book about Hewlett-Packard, Seven Summits [a mountaineering book by Dick Bass and the late Disney president Frank Wells] and a Wallace Stegner novel." He's also a fan of Philip Roth's, John Irving's, Ernest J. Gaines' and David Halberstam's, but his all-time favorite novels are the schoolboy standards The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby and A Separate Peace. A nearby...
...world capitol of all that is good, clean and fun. Jewish as we are, there would be no spiritual toll for using the holiday's all-consuming character to our benefit; there would be no religious conflict in taking advantage of the empty roads and short lines for the Disney attractions. Equally important, the trip would provide us Something To Do on a day when most everything eager tourists might visit is closed. After all, like the hospital emergency room and the Las Vegas casino, Disneyland is open 365 days a year...
...family fought its way through the crowds from the new Indiana Jones attraction to Space Mountain to my personal favorite, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. In front of the signature Disney castle, there was a line of at least 50 people--some of them unaccompanied adults--waiting to meet Snow White, procure autographs and have her pose for photos. She left abruptly, touching off a wave of parent protests and shrieking tantrums by young girls. Luckily, the prospect of a very un-Disney riot was averted when a fresh Cinderella, greeted with wild applause, was whisked in to satiate...