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...such a transformative figure - particularly when he was a boy. He was never a terribly engaged student (his 2007 autobiography, A Life Decoded, includes his eighth-grade report card, filled with Cs and Ds). He fondly recalls testing the patience of both his parents and the pilots at San Francisco International Airport when he and his friends, pedaling furiously on their bicycles, would race planes taxiing for takeoff on a remote runway. (Airport officials eventually fenced it off.) In 1967 he went to Vietnam, where he had been drafted to serve as a hospital corpsman in the Navy...
...food sales. This year, Boulud, Bobby Flay (New York City's Mesa Grill) and Thomas Keller (French Laundry in Napa Valley, Calif.) are opening burger joints. Eric Ripert (New York's Le Bernardin) has put a burger on the menu of his new Washington restaurant, and Hubert Keller (San Francisco's Fleur de Lys) has opened a second Burger Bar in St. Louis, Mo.; he already sells 1,400 burgers each weekend night in Las Vegas...
Still, Beijing is no San Francisco. Openly gay filmmaker Cui Zien says it's still easy to cross an invisible line. "I organized a gay film festival, and the authorities warned us not to advertise the location and the date, not even on the Internet." Despite the restrictions, the festival was allowed to go ahead (unlike some in previous years) and was well attended. Also, since the SARS outbreak in 2003, the government has become more enlightened about AIDS. Cui notes that "there are lots of education programs on safe sex and HIV prevention in gay communities...
...this year's MLK day; last year's bust was an all-too-common reminder of Atlanta's nagging social segregation - a sort of benign but nonetheless disturbing separate but equal. "It's [still] the South [and] people aren't as open-minded here as other cities like San Francisco or New York," says Jill Renee Brummond, who does marketing and event planning for local clubs. "People are focused on color here. Atlanta as a whole is set in its ways." Alison White, a black, 30-something medical recruiter, agrees: "There's a lot of discomfort [and] people...
...launch of a "Rapid Response Media Mechanism," which would enable the Alliance to generate accurate, responsible reports in times of international crisis. "Anytime something happens, the jihadis have the capability of getting their side online within a few hours," said David Michaelis, director of current affairs for the San Francisco-based LinkTV, and a Forum participant. "We have to be able to answer, to get a moderate point of view up, just as quickly." Hameed Haroon, CEO of the Pakistani media group, Dawn Publications, came out of the media workshop bursting with ideas. "It needs to be like a superblog...