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Betty Ford Former First Lady and founder of the renowned drug-addiction treatment facility in California In light of her recent trip to the United Arab Emirates to raise breast-cancer awareness, Laura Bush is a natural candidate for me. In signing the Memorandum of Understanding with the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi and the Susan G. Komen foundation, she has opened doors for women's health and emphasized the need--and possibility--for all women to be informed about breast cancer...
...English winemakers aren't waiting for the French to pop their corks. Chapel Down, Nyetimber and RidgeView wineries are already making sparkling wines that rival champagne in quality and price. But what to call the stuff? Ridgeview founder Michael Roberts has dubbed his bubbly Merret, after Christopher Merret, an English doctor who, he says, described how to make fizzy wine decades before the French monk Dom Pérignon did. Expect an argument from the French...
...Smith says of the business, Liquid Machines Inc., which has grown from two to 60 employees since it debuted six years ago. “We had to learn about how to do crisis management long before we were a funded company,†says Liquid Machines co-founder Vasanth Bala.So when Smith moved into his corner office in University Hall in July to take over as dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, professors and co-workers were confident that Smith’s business savoir-faire would give him a leg up in his new role...
...official story of how health-care reform was conceived in Massachusetts could hardly have been less inspiring--or promising. In the earliest days after Mitt Romney's election in 2002, goes the tale, the new Governor of Massachusetts sat down in his office with his old friend Tom Stemberg, founder of the Staples office-supply chain. "There are lots of things you can do to make this state better," Stemberg told him. "But if you really want to make a difference in the long term, you should fix the health-care system." Romney did not exactly jump at the prospect...
...have to pee three times a day in this place. I pee way more than three times a day.Daniel E. Catomeris ‘11RR: So, who do you play in “Urinetown?â€DC: I play Caldwell B. Cladwell, who is the CEO, founder, and president of Urine Good Company, or UGC as it’s known for short.RR: What does UGC produce?DC: UGC’s product is toilet facilities, which they regulate extensively and force people to pay to use.RR: Should Harvard hire UGC?DC: Well, it depends how serious...