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...morning of September 11, 2001, I was at home. I was a detective in the narcotics division, but I'd taken the day off for the grand opening of my tattoo shop. After the second plane hit, I knew it was an attack. I drove to my precinct in Brooklyn, got dressed in my uniform, and waited for hours for a command to go down to the site...
Alan Mulally has no experience building cars. He isn't well known in Detroit, having spent more than three decades in Seattle as an engineer and senior executive with Boeing. Up until yesterday, when he was named CEO of Ford Motor Co., replacing Bill Ford, he drove a Lexus - a plush ride, to be sure, but not a car you'd drive to Lions football games as a Motown exec. "That Lexus has been destroyed," Bill Ford joked in an interview with TIME. "We had it vaporized during yesterday's press conference." Mulally, for his part, acknowledges...
...third-generation rancher on the windswept prairies of eastern Wyoming, Frank Eathorne doesn't have much time or use for complaining. But one day this spring, he drove 80 miles in his GMC truck with a BUSH-CHENEY bumper sticker to do just that. It wasn't that he minded the oil-and-gas boom currently flooding the state with jobs and royalties. The problem, he told a government panel in a hotel ballroom in Casper, is that the rush to drill in Wyoming is swiping the land right out from under its people...
...already informed his staff of 400 security guards and patrol drivers that he was installing Xora, a software program that tracks workers' whereabouts through GPS technology on their company cell phones. A Web-based "geo-fence" around work territories would alert the boss if workers strayed or even drove too fast. It also enabled him to route workers more efficiently. So when McDonald logged on, the program told him exactly where his worker was--and it wasn't in bed with the sniffles. "How come you're eastbound on 80 heading to Reno right now if you're sick?" asked...
...only two people walking on the beach are Steve and Lisa Stroud, filling a plastic Wal-Mart bag with seashells. They drove six hours from northern Louisiana to visit the place where they've vacationed since they were kids. "We never even bothered to buy a T-shirt," Steve Stroud says sadly of his last visit...