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...obesity, personalization, cost competition and cremation. Local funeral directors wandering through the exhibit examine the politely titled Dimensions line, launched in 2004 to accommodate an increasingly beefier populace. Nearby they view a display of LifeSymbols--knickknacks affixed to casket corners to signify that the occupant was, say, a fishing enthusiast. The undertakers marvel at a new line of less costly but still handsome caskets that uses--gasp--wood veneer. Finally, they admire urns and cremation jewelry, which prove that even casketmakers can't ignore the fact that more than a quarter of dead Americans wind up as ashes...
Clif Bar, the energy-bar company founded by a cycling enthusiast, has little problem sustaining growth. Since 2003, sales have surged 53%, to $150 million. But CEO Sheryl O'Loughlin has another sustainability issue--how to live up to Clif Bar's squeaky-green image? She tells TIME's AMANDA BOWER about CO2 emissions, recycling bins and purses made from trash...
Once it became clear that the writer wasn't some enthusiast looking to curry favor with al-Qaeda but the organization's chief for the Arabian Peninsula, the writings took on predictive import. Al-Ayeri was conducting a kind of cyberspace conversation with bin Laden and al-Zawahiri...
...Business School, Paulson served for the Nixon administration as an aide to the assistant secretary of defense from 1970 to 1972. He then joined the White House as staff assistant to the president until 1973. In addition to his interests in business and politics, Paulson is also a nature enthusiast. He enjoys fly fishing and bird watching and, since 2004, Paulson has served as the chairman of the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy. He is also the chairman emeritus of the Peregrine Fund, an organization devoted to protecting birds of prey in their natural habitats. Before going into...
...Swiss boat in 2007. When Team Shosholoza showed up for the first pre-Cup regattas in Marseilles, France, two years ago, they won a lot of sympathy, but lagged far behind in most of the races. Cobbled together by an eccentric, Italian-born shipping tycoon and sailing enthusiast who lives in Durban, Shosholoza lacks just about everything conventional wisdom holds that a team needs to be successful. They can't compete with the experience, technological prowess and $100 million-plus budgets of teams like U.S. entry BMW-Oracle (put together by software billionaire Larry Ellison) or some of the European...