Word: erwin
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When I get off the trail, Erwin Myles, head of natural resources for the Nez Perce, is waiting for me. We go salmon fishing together--his tribe has fishing rights on the Rapid River, part of the Columbia River system. Like many Indians, Myles is ambivalent about celebrating the discoveries of Lewis and Clark. But compared with the vandals who desecrated the Smoking Place, he sees the two captains as models of diplomacy. "There's much to be learned from how people conducted themselves a long time ago," he says. For the Nez Perce, it is about respect--respect...
Wall Street's recent drug addiction strikes some as ironic. Robert Erwin, CEO of the Vaca Valley, Calif., biotech firm Large Scale Biology, recalls being told all last year that investors were interested only in hearing about his company's technology. "Now the advice I get is, 'Don't talk about your technology. People only want to hear about your products...
...Liberty. Small tables dot the area and make it feel more like an Italian piazza than a sterile airport food court. What's particularly refreshing is the distinctive food offerings, such as the first-ever airport Sylvia's, a branch of the famous Harlem soul-food restaurant, and Erwin's Glatt Kosher Deli. This airport wants you to visit: the so-called dwell time, the minutes you spend pre- or postflight, is estimated to be a longer-than-average four hours...
...Christian Democratic leadership in crisis. Angela Merkel, the new cdu leader chosen last year, has been trading insults with two rivals who covet her job: Friedrich Merz, the cdu's leader in par-liament, and Edmund Stoiber, head of the party's longtime Bavarian ally the Christian Social Union. Erwin Teufel, the cdu leader who has governed in Baden-Württemberg since 1991, complained last month about the "devastating image" the leadership feud was projecting on his own campaign...
...real problem, say experts, is chronic rescuing. Children who are continually bailed out never grow up. Cheryl Erwin, author of several Positive Discipline parenting books, says, "As parents, we need to be there to teach and guide, not to rescue and pamper. That is an ultimately unloving thing...