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That ability to make complex strategic decisions collectively requires an almost Benedictine devotion to corporate togetherness, starting with physical space. The firm's 39th- and 40th-floor offices offer sweeping views of San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge as well as of the interior hallways--the walls are glass. Two staircases connect the floors, and walking about is heavily encouraged. Branch offices and telecommuting are verboten...
...down, right? Not if you can pound her face instead. At the Fatal Femmes Fighting Championship, an all-female mixed-martial arts (MMA) event, almost anything goes in the cage. Sofie Bagherdai, otherwise a sweet, petite teenager from Southern California, has her opponent, Stephanie Palmer, pinned to the floor. Now she's ready to work--whack, a shot to the noggin. Bam! Pow! Boom! Half a dozen more. Palmer cowers in the fetal position, and the ref stops the fight. The medics cart Palmer out on a stretcher. (She escapes with a fractured foot, suffered earlier in the bout--which...
...leaving me sweating and struggling to keep up, strides briskly toward the base of the Burj Dubai, the soaring skyscraper he's in charge of building. Riding together in a jangling construction elevator, it takes us 3 min. 50 sec. to ascend to the giddy heights of the 104th floor - and the building's reach for the sky won't stop there. At the current rate, says Sang, his laborers - some 4,000 construction workers, mainly from the Indian subcontinent - are adding a new story every three days. At that pace, the Burj Dubai will this week surpass Taipei...
...Peering out from the 104th floor, I can see several other symbols of Dubai, a city-state roughly the size of Mallorca, with only about 250,000 citizens and 1 million or so foreign workers. The most famous is the Burj al Arab, a splendid, sail-shaped luxury hotel as high as the Eiffel Tower. When Sang points toward the hazy waters of the Gulf and says, "That's the World out there," it takes me a second to realize he's not referring to our planet, but to yet another huge real estate development. The World will...
Dorine Akuma does not remember the exact year she came to Unyama Camp in northern Uganda, but she remembers the reason why. Sitting on the floor of her dimly lit stone hut as chickens and small children wander outside the door, Akuma describes the day when rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) came to her home to murder two of her sons and abduct her daughter to be a sex slave. Since then, the years have been a blur to the 60-year-old widow. And many who have suffered like her through the 20-year civil...